While Wolves' 2022 January transfer window may not have blown many fans away at the Midlands club, the Old Gold were pretty busy behind the scenes with new players coming in as well as seeing others move out for loan spells.

One move that took place at Molineux rather early on in the month saw defender Toti Gomes return from his loan spell with Grasshopper Club Zurich, who has since been given a massive lifeline by Bruno Lage to kickstart his Wolves career.

With Romain Saiss away on international duty, as well as Willy Boly and Yerson Mosquera out injured, Gomes has been given the chance to show Lage and everyone else at Wolves what he can do, with two appearances in the Premier League now under his belt against Southampton and Brentford.

With Lage making clear at the start of the window that he would've liked to have signed a new centre-back, it seems as though he put his faith in the 23-year-old to come in and do a job for the team.

In those two appearances for the Old Gold, the centre-back certainly showed why Lage made a good decision in giving him the chance to play, with WhoScored now listing him as Wolves' second-highest rated player with an overall rating of 7.07/10, highlighting how capable he is of playing in the Premier League to a high standard.

A stunning review from two of his former teammates and those to have donned the Old Gold in the past supplement his good performances with Conor Ronan saying he's "everything you want" and "rarely gets beaten."

Leo Bonatini added: "Pffft, he’s a great defender. So fast — I think the fastest in our team. He has a lot of things to improve but this is good. He’s young, he’s a strong guy and I hope he has an opportunity in Wolves.”

That chance duly came but with Saiss set to return to Molineux soon, as well as Boly and Mosquera likely to come back to full fitness before the end of the season, it'll be interesting to see if Lage continues to pick Gomes when he more centre-back options to choose from.

With Wolves set to take on fellow Premier League side Norwich City at the weekend for their latest FA Cup fixture, this would be another good opportunity for the Portuguese defender to show what he can do alongside the other, more experienced players in Lage's squad.

If he can keep his place in the team from now until the end of the season, after being no more than an exiled passenger at the club since he arrived back in September 2020, this would surely make him one of the biggest winners at Wolves during the recent transfer window.

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