Graham Potter stance on Wolves manager job after Gary O'Neil is sacked
Wolves have sacked Gary O'Neil and are close to appointing Vitor Pereira as their new manager, but there was interest closer to home
Wolverhampton Wanderers are on the look-out for a new manager after they decided to sack Gary O'Neil on Sunday. The news broke in the wake of the damaging, late defeat at home to Ipswich Town on Saturday, a result which proved to be the final straw for Fosun and O'Neil's tenure has now ended.
Wolves are in a serious battle to the remain in the Premier League, finding themselves five points adrift of safety currently having won two of their 16 league games so far this season. That follows a run of one win in ten at the end of last season and the club's hierarchy have decided to act in the hope that their campaign and top flight status can be rescued.
Portuguese Vitor Pereira is the odds-on favourite; reports emerged on Sunday afternoon that the experienced boss, who is currently manager of Al-Shabab in the Saudi Arabia Pro League, is keen to join and that a severance agreement with his current employers ought not to be a problem. Pereira has stints at Fenerbahce, Porto, 1860 Munich, Olympiacos, Flamengo and Corinthians on his CV among others.
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Others had been linked; speculation has revolved around West Bromwich Albion boss Carlos Corberan, for example, while others who are out of work were predictably placed in the frame initially. David Moyes is one, while another is Graham Potter, who has been out of work since being sacked by Chelsea last year.
The Guardian, who add that Corberan and Moyes were considered by Wolves until they landed on Pereira, reported this weekend that Potter turned away the advances of the club last month when they approached him, citing that he hasn't an interest in returning to work with the Molineux vacancy. Potter, a former Albion and Birmingham City defender, has managed Swansea City and Brighton since returning to England from Sweden.