Wolves sack Edwards after seven months

Wolves person sacked caput manager Rob Edwards aft conscionable 7 months pursuing their relegation from the Premier League.

The nine had antecedently enactment connected a agreed beforehand and insisted they were down the 43-year-old, appointed past November.

Cesar Peixoto, who guided Gil Vicente to sixth spot successful Portugal's Primeira Liga during the play conscionable completed, has been linked with the occupation astatine Molineux.

Wolves had already started readying for the Championship by signing Kieran Trippier connected a escaped from Newcastle, with Edwards cardinal to the deal, portion Raul Jimenez returned, with his Fulham declaration expiring astatine the extremity of the month.

Technical manager Matt Jackson said past period that the club's hierarchy was aligned successful supporting Edwards arsenic they looked to rebuild the squad.

"The program and the extremity is to get promoted consecutive distant but we recognize a batch of alteration has to instrumentality place," Jackson said.

"If determination isn't alignment here, we're dormant successful the h2o earlier we start, truthful that treatment has been going connected for months already."

Edwards near a Championship promotion contention with Middlesbrough, replacing Vitor Pereira, but won conscionable 5 of his 30 games successful each competitions, losing 16.

Wolves finished bottommost of the Premier League - and the erstwhile Forest Green, Watford and Luton brag called for alteration astatine the nine recently.

"We're a corporate and I'll instrumentality work of people but it's not an effort thing, it's the information that we're the worst squad successful the league. That's the bottommost line," said Edwards astatine a Q&A hosted by BBC WM past month.

"I'll beryllium cautious what I accidental due to the fact that I've got to enactment with the boys arsenic good for the adjacent mates of weeks but we're not bully enough.

"That's the concern we came into. I knew coming present successful November, I mightiness beryllium sitting present successful beforehand of a batch of precise aggravated radical due to the fact that this spot is successful a mess. I wanted to travel here, I wanted to effort and help."