Wolves appoint Middlesbrough boss Rob Edwards as new manager following Vitor Pereira sacking
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Updated 13/11/2025 at 17:50 GMT
Wolverhampton Wanderers have appointed Rob Edwards as their new manager after the struggling Premier League club were finally given permission to speak to the outgoing Middlesbrough boss. Edwards has guided Boro to third in the Championship following eight wins in their opening 15 matches. Wolves are without a victory from their 11 top-flight games this season, and are 20th in the table.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers have appointed Rob Edwards as their new manager, with the departing Middlesbrough boss replacing Vitor Pereira.
Wolves have picked up just two points from 11 games this season and are bottom of the Premier League table.
Middlesbrough only appointed former Luton Town manager Edwards as their new head coach on a three-year deal in June, replacing Michael Carrick, but his impressive start to life on Teesside alerted the attention of Wolves's executive chair, Jeff Shi.
"I know Rob very well and I have seen his growth in different jobs," said Shi.
"He’s a very good person, he knows the club very well, he knows the city, the fans and he is very talented. 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.
"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. We are at a new chapter for the club and Rob will be a key piece of that."
Edwards previously represented Wolves as a player and a coach, while the 42-year-old also had a period in caretaker charge at Molineux in October 2016, shortly after Fosun, Wolves's Chinese owner, assumed control of the club.
Under-21 boss James Collins - alongside under-18 counterpart Richard Walker – had been put in temporary charge of Wolves while the club finalised the appointment of Edwards.
Edwards had guided Middlesbrough to second place in the Championship but he now takes charge of a side already eight points from safety in the Premier League, with games against Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Arsenal on the horizon.
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Wolves director of player recruitment and development Matt Jackson said: "Rob and his staff have demonstrated previously that they can be really good in shifting the culture, getting confidence quickly into players and building foundations for a really positive future. He loves being on the grass and making a change to a team, embracing the tactics of different situations.
"The energy that he brings off the field, we have to get it on to the pitch. We have to be realistic about where we are, and we definitely need to be held accountable. We now need to get that belief into the players quickly and think Rob will be great culturally for the whole football club."
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