Rob Edwards Agrees Deal To Become Wolves’ Head Coach After Boro Talks

Rob Edwards has agreed a three-and-a-half-year statement to go nan Wolves caput coach and could beryllium formally appointed arsenic early arsenic Monday. Middlesbrough rejected Wolves’s first approach for Edwards but pursuing talks connected Friday they grew resigned to losing him.

Wolves will salary astir £3m successful compensation to Boro to region Edwards from nan three-year statement he signed connected presence astatine nan Riverside Stadium successful June.

Wolves are longstanding admirers of Edwards, a erstwhile subordinate and coach astatine nan Molineux club. He besides had a little spell successful caretaker complaint successful 2016, soon aft Fosun, Wolves’s Chinese owner, bought nan club.

Edwards is expected astatine Wolves connected Monday, erstwhile nan woody could beryllium announced by nan Premier League club. Edwards will win Vítor Pereira, who was sacked aft claiming conscionable 2 points from nan opening 10 matches of nan season.

Wolves held precocious talks pinch their erstwhile caput coach Gary O’Neil but he pulled retired of discussions past Monday amid a protagonist backlash and reservations complete nan soul structure.

Wolves mislaid 3-0 astatine Chelsea connected Saturday evening, erstwhile nan under-21s caput coach James Collins and under-18s caput coach Richard Walker led nan team. Wolves dream Edwards’s presence tin thief galvanise nan nine successful their conflict against relegation.

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