Wolves' clash with Barnsley key to Nuno Espirito Santo's vision

He’s absolutely right of course. But when he repeated it on Tuesday night when talking about tomorrow’s visit of Barnsley, he said it with added gusto.

And you can see why. Wolves have made a quite brilliant start to the season, winning five of their eight league games, progressing to the fourth round of the Carabao Cup and producing some of the best football witnessed by a Wolves team in recent years.

There have been a couple of warning signs in the past week, though, such as defensive frailties in the 3-3 draw against Bristol City, a failure to put Millwall to the sword in a needlessly slender 1-0 win and then below-par performances against Nottingham Forest and Bristol Rovers.

Both of those games were won which is why this feels like nitpicking.

But Nuno is a perfectionist – and knows that Wolves will need to enjoy a season that’s not far from perfect if they’re to win promotion from one of the world’s most competitive divisions.

Barnsley arrive at Molineux in poor form having been taken apart 3-0 by struggling Villa last weekend. The 1-0 cup loss at Spurs in midweek was an honourable one given that Paul Heckingbottom made so many changes – and he did so with tomorrow in mind.

For a warning sign, Wolves need only recall last season’s visit of the Tykes. Then they were flying high under Walter Zenga before a defensive capitulation saw the wheels start to come off the Zenga Bus with a 4-0 defeat.

Nuno’s Wolves look like a very different beast but the Portuguese head coach will accept nothing less than victory tomorrow ahead of a tough-looking trip to in-form Sheffield United on Wednesday.

Nuno said in midweek: “We only look as far as tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day that we are thinking about as we prepare for the game on Saturday at Molineux – it’s a very important game for us.

“It’s a group, it’s a squad , it’s players that want to help the team this is the most important thing for us. I’m happy with that.”

Bright Enobakhare netted his first goal in two years against Rovers and the boss hopes it increases the youngster’s confidence.

“Scoring will give Bright some confidence and it has shown him that he has to work,” Nuno added.

“He has been a very important player this season and now he’s come back again – we know that all of the players in the squad are very important to us.

“It was difficult with players coming in and coming back from injury.

“It was good to get minutes for some players getting back in shape as we continue our fight.”

Wolves will hope Leo Bonatini and Ruben Vinagre have recovered from the knocks that forced them off the field during last week’s victory at Forest.

Barry Douglas, Kortney Hause and Morgan Gibbs-White all returned to the squad in midweek. Helder Costa and Ryan Bennett are also nearing comebacks.