{"id":125283,"date":"2025-11-06T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:44:08","slug":"rob-edwards-wolves-set-to-approach-middlesbrough-boss-over-head-coach-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125283\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Edwards: Wolves set to approach Middlesbrough boss over head coach role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves are set to make a formal approach to Middlesbrough over appointing Rob Edwards as their head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport reported on Sunday that former Luton manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqx3q9423w7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edwards was among the leading contenders<\/a> to replace Vitor Pereira, who was sacked following a winless start to the Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves held talks with former boss Gary O&#8217;Neil but the 42-year-old withdrew from the running on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-Wolves player Edwards, also 42, has always been a strong candidate at Molineux and is now emerging as the club&#8217;s preferred choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood the relegation-threatened club are preparing an official approach to Middlesbrough, who are third in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves are bottom of the table with only two points after 10 games &#8211; eight points adrift of 17th-placed Burnley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood Wolves would be required to pay significant compensation to Middlesbrough to secure Edwards, who only took over at the Riverside Stadium in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolves are set to make a formal approach to Middlesbrough over appointing Rob Edwards as their head coach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-125283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}