{"id":128649,"date":"2025-11-08T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:54:08","slug":"rob-edwards-middlesbrough-manager-stood-down-amid-interest-from-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128649\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Edwards: Middlesbrough manager stood down amid interest from Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boss Rob Edwards has been stood down from Middlesbrough&#8217;s game against Birmingham on Saturday amid Wolves&#8217; interest in appointing him as their new manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves saw an approach to speak to Edwards rejected by Boro on Thursday and the manager was locked in talks with members of the Championship club&#8217;s hierarchy on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards did not hold his regular pre-game news conference or oversee the team&#8217;s final training session before the Championship game with Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it has now emerged he will not take charge of the home match against the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards signed a three-year contract to succeed Michael Carrick as Middlesbrough manager in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The side from north east England are third in the table going into this weekend&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boss Rob Edwards has been stood down from Middlesbrough&#8217;s game against Birmingham on Saturday amid Wolves&#8217; interest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-128649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128649","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=128649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}