Ole Gunnar Solskjaer warned his Manchester United forwards that Cristiano Ronaldo will not be warming the Old Trafford bench.
The Portugal star is closing in on a return to United after Mason Greenwood's late goal gave them a 1-0 victory at Wolves.
On Friday United announced they have agreed a £19.7million deal with Juventus to bring Ronaldo back to Old Trafford, 12 years after he left for Real Madrid.
Solskjaer's side squeezed past Wolves despite being second best for much of the match and the manager insisted he expects the 36-year-old to go straight into his side.
"He is not signing to sit on the bench. He is going to make us a better team," said Solskjaer.
"We need to get all the paperwork done, hopefully we can get that sorted and we can announce it 100%.
"Then he is away with Portugal, they have three games, his last game is Tuesday (7 September) and then we can get him back to Manchester and be involved as soon as possible."
Greenwood’s goal ten minutes from time came after Wolves were angered referee Mike Dean allowed play to continue when Paul Pogba challenged Ruben Neves for the ball.
The France international made minimal contact but the hosts felt the challenge was dangerous, yet Solskjaer believes it was fair.
He said: "Last week (against Southampton) I was moaning because I thought we should have had a foul. Every manager will say it’s wrong when it goes against you.
"Today I’m not going to argue against the referee. It’s a bad touch by Paul but he goes in with his side foot and it’s a fair challenge.
"We have played better but sometimes you have to earn your luck and I thought we did."
David De Gea’s brilliant reaction stop to deny Romain Saiss also helped United set a new all-time English football record and stretch their unbeaten away run to 28 games.
Before his second-half heroics, De Gea thwarted Raul Jimenez, Aaron Wan-Bissaka cleared off the line from Francisco Trincao and Joao Moutinho shot over.
Wolves and Traore threatened to run riot but they failed to score for a third successive game, again slipping to a 1-0 defeat, despite having 57 attempts in the Premier League this season.
