Edwards takes over team with two points from 11 games
Wolves pay about £3m for their former player and coach
Rob Edwards has been confirmed as the Wolves head coach on a three-and-a-half-year deal after the Premier League’s bottom club paid about £3m in compensation to Middlesbrough. The 42-year-old has resigned at Boro 15 games into a three-year contract to take over from Vítor Pereira, who was sacked on 2 November.
Wolves have two points from 11 games and will hope to avoid a fifth straight defeat when they host Crystal Palace on 22 November in Edwards’ first game.
Edwards has left a team pushing for promotion from the Championship, with Boro second after winning without him on Saturday. Boro rejected an initial approach from Wolves but Edwards wanted to rejoin the club where he was a player and later a coach. Edwards had two games in caretaker charge at Molineux in 2016.
