{"id":267228,"date":"2025-11-02T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:01:07","slug":"vitor-pereira-wolves-sack-head-coach-after-winless-start-to-premier-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267228\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Pereira: Wolves sack head coach after winless start to Premier League season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolves.co.uk\/news\/mens-first-team\/20251102-wolves-part-company-with-vitor-pereira\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club statement,, external<\/a> which said all eight of Pereira&#8217;s backroom staff have also left, said &#8220;results and performances this term have fallen below acceptable standards and as a result a change in leadership was deemed necessary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Executive chairman Jeff Shi said: &#8220;Vitor and his team worked tirelessly for Wolves and helped guide us through a challenging period last season, for which we are grateful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, the start to this season has been a disappointment and, despite our strong desire to give the head coach time and matches to find an improvement, we have reached a point where we must make a change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Collins and Richard Walker, head coaches of Wolves&#8217; under-21 and under-18 teams respectively, will &#8220;take training while the club finalise the appointment of a new first-team head coach&#8221;, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pereira said: &#8220;It has been a privilege to manage Wolverhampton Wanderers and experience unique moments with this club and its supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would like to thank the club&#8217;s owners for their trust, the players for their hard work and commitment over these months, and all the staff for making me feel part of the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wish the club all the best for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A club statement,, external which said all eight of Pereira&#8217;s backroom staff have also left, said &#8220;results and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-267228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}