IAN Evatt gave new signing Szabolcs Schön a pat on the back after he impressed in Wanderers ’ 3-0 friendly win at Port Vale after just one training session with his new team-mates.

The 23-year-old Hungarian, signed for a reported £800,000 from Fehérvár, was playing for his former club in the Conference League just a few days earlier.

He had a solitary session at Lostock on Friday to prepare for the game at Vale Park but quickly showed his credentials in a comfortable victory.

Aaron Collins, Victor Adeboyejo and Dion Charles scored the goals to give Evatt’s side a confidence boost going into their opening fixture against Leyton Orient next weekend.

But the name on everyone’s lips – quite literally – was new signing Schön.

“We have been calling him Szabi, for short, and I was really pleased because he has come in cold,” the manager explained.

“We know he is a player whose skillset suits what we do. Some of the things we ask of the players are not alien to him and he has just played in Europe on Wednesday, so it isn’t a bad level to be playing at.

“He is a talented kid – and that’s him fresh and cold after one training session. The more detail and information we can give him, I think he will take it all on board.

“Everyone will look at his stature and maybe think it is a frailty or that he might be a little fragile. But you could see there he is nothing like that.

“He has a good leap, he doesn’t shirk aerial duels, in fact I think he won all of his today.

“It isn’t always what you see. There is a really big heart and desire behind the technical aspects he is going to bring to the team as well.”

Wanderers dominated the first half to take a 2-0 lead into the break, extending it through Charles’s neat finish after Vale had enjoyed their best spell of the game.

Evatt was able to use his whole squad and did not appear to pick up any injuries, which puts him in a positive frame of mind with the season curtain raiser now just seven days away.

He said: “There are still lots of things that we can tighten up on and improve upon, but you can see the work we have done in pre-season, with and without the ball, and a large portion of what you saw there was what we have been working on.

“I do want to see more. This is still very new and we are still getting players back, so getting them up to full speed for the season is tough. Gradually they will get progressively better.

“The lads have worked so hard over pre-season and whenever you come here to Port Vale it is a test and a challenge. They have recruited really heavily in the summer and they have got a very strong squad for League Two. I wish Darren (Moore) all the best because he is one of football’s good guys but to play in that manner here, I was very pleased.”