The 18-year-old joins from Paraguayan side Libertad on a five-year contract, subject to international clearance and work permit.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers have made an exciting addition to their squad with the signing of a promising young South American talent, Enso Gonzalez. The 18-year-old joins from Paraguayan side Libertad on a five-year contract, subject to international clearance and work permit. Capable of playing on either flank, Gonzalez will be a valuable addition to Wolves’ setup. He is still very young, hence the winger will need time to adapt to the Premier League and become a regular for his side.
Having said that, Enso Gonzalez has the talent and potential to have an impact at Wolverhampton Wanderers sooner than expected. Sporting director Matt Hobbs is pleased to have him at Molineux, as he explained the process behind getting the deal done. “It’s one we’ve worked on now for a while. At one point it didn’t look like it was going to be possible, but his club have been great, and we’ve managed to get to a situation where it works for everyone, and we’re excited to have him here,” Hobbs was quoted as saying by the club’s website.
He added: “He’s an exciting player – he’s a young boy, coming from South America with little English, but our dressing room will help with that because of both the South Americans and Spanish speakers we have, so if he was going to adapt quickly anywhere, it’d be here. We have to give him time to adjust because the Premier League’s completely different, but I think what we’ve seen with Joao Gomes coming from South America, and other Premier League teams who’ve taken players from similar countries, if you give them time, allow them to grow and support them, they can turn out to be special players.”
The Sporting director went into detail to explain the process behind his recruitment. “Ben [Wrigglesworth], El [Sutcliffe] and the team, like they always are, were very diligent and thorough in the work done on Enso, and a big part of that is finding people with connections to players and coaches who have worked with him before. This means we know a lot about the boy we’re getting as much as the player,” he started.
“The job of the recruitment team is to have players ready for every position because you never know what is going to happen, and we always have to be ready to go on our next target. It has to be a working list because players get injured, players move, and I always know who our top target is. We’ve been working towards a certain profile of player for the last 18 months and one of the reasons we like Gary is because his view on players is the same as ours.”
Matt Hobbs further stated that he and Wolves’ manager Gary O’Neil had watched the youngster play before going ahead with his signing. “He wanted a front player who can play across the line, create and score goals, and the team only put Enso forward – they had other options, but Enso was the one, in their opinion, that we had to do. Me and Gary watched him, then we got the information behind it to make sure we were getting the right person and got the deal done,” he elaborated.
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