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Cesar Peixoto is starting work as the new Wolves manager.

The former Portugal international has replaced Rob Edwards at Molineux on a two-year contact.

This will be Peixoto's first experience of English football having managed exclusively in his homeland where he took Gil Vicente to sixth place in the Primeira Liga last season.

Wolves fans have been sending us their views on the appointment and here is a selection of their thoughts:

Simon - A lot will hinge on how he engages with those quality Wolves players who currently feel very let down by the club's handling of the Edwards sacking. There's then the thorny issue of effective recruitment, and not just bringing in average stock from the Mendes portfolio.

David - So, Fosun appoint a man who has no experience outside Portugal, has never won anything, and has never stayed at any club for any length of time. And that is better than staying with Edwards who, despite being flawed, has a far better track record in the division we are in. He won't last a season, obviously.

James - One decent season in the Portuguese league does not a complete manager make. This is a huge punt, again. If he lasts the whole season, he will have done better than Edwards, Pereira, O'Neil and Lopetegui. The list goes on. Maybe he will be the answer, or maybe we will be doing this all again in December.

Lauro - Presumably this is to be followed by a plethora of less unknown talent from Portugal and the hope that we can replicate the Nuno era. I sincerely hope lightning does strikes twice.

Ken - The last six managers have been let down so it is difficult to have much confidence going forward. Hope I am wrong and that out of darkness comes light, but it is looking like this club will have no long-term stability as long as Fosun are in charge.

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Robin - Provided he is given the backing to bring in new players then I see no reason why he can't turn things around. If the squad stays mainly the same then I think it will be another struggle next season.

Pete - Peixoto seems to have a structure he likes and has used it effectively. That identity is something we have really lacked since Nuno. A focus on the system and on set-pieces is needed. Wolves potentially have the tools (with a few key additions needed) to execute. There is potential for a new golden period.

Dan - I was buying into the Edwards plan to steady the ship and try to get promoted straight away. He knew the Championship and had good knowledge of teams in it. The new boss will need to learn very quickly,

Tommy - I'm not overly excited about this relatively unknown Portuguese manager although I'd love to be wrong! Still, we needed a change and we've got it, so let's hope Fosun hand Mendes the cheque book and tell him to get some decent players.

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Wolves have named Portugal international Cesar Peixoto as their new head coach to replace Rob Edwards who was sacked last week.

The 46-year-old guided Gil Vicente to sixth place in the Primeira Liga last season having also managed Moreirense and Pacos de Ferreira in the Portuguese top flight.

He becomes the third manager at Molineux in seven months after the dismissals of Edwards and his predecessor, Vitor Pereira in 2025-26.

So, can Peixoto lead Wolves back to the Premier League at the first time of asking after they finished bottom, 21 points adrift of safety last season?

Send us your thoughts here and come back later to read some of the thoughts of some supporters.

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Wolves striker Raul Jimenez scored his first World Cup goal for Mexico on Thursday in front of a packed-out home crowd during their 2-0 victory against South Africa.

The opening game between the two sides was eventful, with the visitors receiving two red cards in the second half while Cesar Montes was also dismissed for the hosts in added time.

Mexico, one of three countries hosting this year's World Cup alongside Canada and the USA, were already leading the contest after nine minutes before Jimenez nodded in the second to secure the win and leave the 35-year-old, who re-joined Wolves on Tuesday, emotional.

Jimenez's club team-mate Ladislav Krejci also found his way onto the scoresheet for the first time in the competition after the Czech Republic captain opened the scoring against South Korea with a header in the 59th minute.

It marked the first goal for the side in the World Cup in 20 years, but they were unable to claim the victory after South Korea came back from behind to win 2-1.

Fellow Wolves player Hwang Hee-Chan also made an appearance during the match, coming off the bench for the Asian side in the 62nd minute.

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Wolves are serious about putting things right this summer, you say? Well now. This is, indeed, a serious move.

Opinion among Wolves fans about Rob Edwards was divided throughout his tenure, and so it remains.

Most probably have the same opinion on his qualities as they did last November.

But unusually for the replacement of a manager, that is not quite the main issue here.

More interesting than the decision itself is choosing to do it now. It is now reported that Edwards and his staff first found out their jobs were in peril from social media.

There is nothing to recommend that method of operating, but it is a fair guess from the amount of appearances Edwards has made in the club's media channels around the signings of Kieran Trippier and Raul Jimenez this week that they were not the only ones in the dark.

On the club's own news page right now, below the sombre statement confirming Edwards' departure, a link leads to Trippier saying: "What struck me first was how passionate he [Edwards] was for helping the club move forward... you just have a feeling straight away and I felt that chemistry straight away with the manager."

Oh.

Still, Trippier must have worked for enough bosses by now to be able to shrug after the initial shock. It's always been a jungle out there.

The new coach, if it is indeed to be Cesar Peixoto, has no English track record to cause either concern or optimism.

Neither did Nuno, and look what happened. Mind you, neither did Walter Zenga, and look what happened.

It is perhaps not ideal that after a few weeks of everyone agreeing that one of last season's problems was hiring so many players who had no experience of English football, Wolves now look to be hiring a coach who has no experience of English football.

But it is nevertheless entirely possible that he will do a fine job, and be given good players to help him do it, as Nuno was.

There is much we do not know yet, although there is plenty of temptation to join the dots.

What is the influence of the super-agent Jorge Mendes now? Is the work done for several months by the recruitment team, under Matt Jackson, now of any relevance?

Will a new Mendes-aligned manager unlock a new raft of high-quality Mendes-aligned players? We'll all find out together. Win the first few games, and everyone will be on board.

This decision may turn out to be good. It may turn out to be bad. All we can say at the moment is that a lot of things about it are weird.

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We asked you for your thoughts on the sacking of head coach Rob Edwards by Wolverhampton Wanderers - and it seems a lot of you are left feeling puzzled.

Some think Edwards has not been given enough of a chance, others feel he did not impress - but you have your own questions regarding his potential replacement Cesar Peixoto.

Here is a selection of what you had to say about Edwards' dismissal:

Simon: Madness. Things were looking so positive with new player contracts and two excellent signings, all decisions Edwards had been pivotal to. We are now apparently considering someone without any real top level experience. Makes no sense whatsoever!

James: The handling of this is dreadful, if the stories are true. Edwards deserved better. Is the new man a Nuno or a Pereira? Time will tell, but after a week in which the club did everything right, this seems very strange.

Leigh: I would have liked RE to succeed, but there was no guarantee and there were doubts among the fans. After the season from hell, which RE was part of (even if he wasn't responsible for), there is a strong argument for a reset and a fresh start. Momentum is everything this season and RE had none after last season.

Jack: You wouldn't be able to print my actual thoughts on this... but the safe version is that this seems like a massive own goal. Raul and Trippier coming in was the first good decisions the club had made in years, and it seemed like they were turning a corner in prioritising the fans.

This though, seems like a massive backwards step. This best be part of some grand plan by the club's hierarchy, else League One beckons again.

Stefan: Chaos theory is often thought of as being a mathematical and physical process regarding the behaviour of systems. Those who believe this are very wrong. Chaos theory is actually the board and directors of Wolves who think they know how to run a football club.

The days of Solbakken, Saunders, Zenga are on the horizon again. Never has the chant "you don't know what you're doing" been more appropriate.

Jackery: I see Jorge Mendes is the agent of Cesar Peixoto. Can we expect an influx of Portuguese talent at Molineux that proved so successful under Nuno?

Winning the Championship on the club's 150th anniversary is the goal!

Laura: It seems that Fosun's plan for running a football club hasn't progressed past "Do whatever Jorge Mendes says" - it staggers me that they just keep on going back to a plan that worked once, but has absolutely followed the law of diminishing returns since then.

Given all the poor decisions that have been made by senior management in the last few years, I value having someone in the manager's role who I trust to fight for what is right for the club and, in that respect, I am very sorry to see Edwards go - this isn't how I want my club to treat people.

James: Sacking Edwards is understandable but not wise. If Wolves wanted to judge him fairly, they should have judged him over the first 12-15 Championship games, not whether he could rescue a side that was virtually down when he arrived. Unless there are serious internal issues we cannot see, this was unfair and risks another cycle of instability and decline.

Scott: Edwards may not have been the man for the job, passion only gets you so far but to be looking at an unknown, unproven manager for the English leagues is another backward step by Fosun. Have they not learnt anything from their previous managerial appointments? It appears not.

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Wolves legend Steve Bull has labelled the dismissal of head coach Rob Edwards "a shock" after he signed onto a "no-win" situation last season.

Edwards left Middlesbrough, who were in second place in the Championship at the time, to join the then-winless Wolves side in the Premier League.

"It's a shock to me because I thought last year when he first came in, he was onto a no-win situation," Bull told BBC Radio WM.

"I thought it was 30% to keep us in the Premier League and 70% to get us back in there but it's one of those things. Football can be cruel sometimes."

However, Bull remains open-minded over the future of his former club, including the links to Gil Vicente manager Cesar Peixoto.

"He [Edwards] did a good job in the short time he was there and I want to wish him all the best," Bull added.

"Change is for the best sometimes. Sometimes you need to sharpen things up, freshen things up.

"It might be a little bit like when we had Nuno [Espirito Santo, who led Wolves to promotion to the top flight in 2018], nobody knows anything about him but the team might come and do a good job. Who knows?"