{"id":27292,"date":"2025-11-13T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27292"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:04:03","slug":"wolves-appoint-edwards-as-manager-in-bid-to-avoid-relegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27292","title":{"rendered":"Wolves appoint Edwards as manager in bid to avoid relegation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Premier League strugglers Wolves confirmed the appointment of Rob Edwards as their new head coach on a three-and-a-half year contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Edwards has left Championship club Middlesbrough and replaces Vitor Pereira, who was sacked by Wolves earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old, who managed Luton in the Premier League, faces a huge task to extend Wolves’ eight-year stay in the top flight.<\/p>\n

Wolves have taken just two points from their opening 11 league games, losing nine times to sink to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n

Edwards will be in his fourth spell at Wolves after making 111 appearances as a player, as well as enjoying time at the Midlands club as a coach and interim boss.<\/p>\n

“I know Rob very well and I have seen his growth in different jobs,” said Wolves chairman Jeff Shi.<\/p>\n

“He’s a very good person, he knows the club very well, he knows the city, the fans and he is very talented.<\/p>\n

“When he was a youth coach here, he showed his tactical awareness, but after he took first-team jobs he started to grow his own identity, character and leadership.”<\/p>\n

Edwards lifted Middlesbrough to second place in the Championship table, five points behind leaders Coventry, prior to his departure.<\/p>\n

Wolves are already eight points from safety and Shi added: “We need to refresh the whole club with a new coach’s philosophy, bringing his own identity and ideas, and we can build on that.<\/p>\n

“We are at a new chapter for the club and Rob will be a key piece of that.”<\/p>\n

Middlesbrough had initially rejected an approach for Edwards, who only joined the club in June.<\/p>\n

Edwards, however, expressed his desire for a move to Molineux and was stood down for Middlesbrough’s Championship win against Birmingham on Saturday after the clubs agreed a reported \u00a33 million ($3.9 million) compensation package.<\/p>\n

He will be joined by assistant head coach Harry Watling after the pair worked together at Middlesbrough<\/p>\n

Edwards’ first game in charge of Wolves will come after the international break on November 22, at home to Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n

He arrives at Molineux tasking with lifting a gloomy atmosphere after frustrated fans turned on Pereira and called for owners Fosun to sell the club.<\/p>\n

Pereira had saved Wolves from relegation last season but the Portuguese coach was unable to recreate that magic this term.<\/p>\n

Confidence has been at rock bottom for much of the season, with successive 3-0 defeats at Fulham and Chelsea in their last two matches providing the impetus for Shi to take the managerial change.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Premier League strugglers Wolves confirmed the appointment of Rob Edwards as their new head coach on a three-and-a-half year contract on Wednesday. Edwards has left Championship club Middlesbrough and replaces Vitor Pereira, who was sacked by Wolves earlier this month. The 42-year-old, who managed Luton in the Premier League, faces a huge task to extend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}