Rob Edwards agrees deal to become Wolves head coach after Boro talks

Rob Edwards has agreed a three-and-a-half-year contract to become the Wolves head coach and could be formally appointed as early as Monday. Middlesbrough rejected Wolves’s initial approach for Edwards but following talks on Friday they grew resigned to losing him. Wolves will pay around £3m in compensation to Boro to remove Edwards from the three-year contract he signed on arrival at the Riverside Stadium in June. Related: Middlesbrough give Rob Edwards permission to hold talks over Wolves job Wolves are longstanding admirers of Edwards, a former player and coach at the Molineux club. He also had a brief spell in caretaker charge in 2016, shortly after Fosun, Wolves’s Chinese owner, bought the club. Edwards is expected at Wolves on Monday, when the deal could be announced by the Premier League club. Edwards will succeed Vítor Pereira, who was sacked after claiming only two points from the opening 10 matches of the season. Wolves held advanced talks with their former head coach Gary O’Neil but he pulled out of discussions last Monday amid a supporter backlash and reservations over the internal structure. Wolves lost 3-0 at Chelsea on Saturday evening, when the under-21s head coach, James Collins, and under-18s head coach, Richard Walker, led the team. Wolves hope Edwards’s arrival can help galvanise the club in their fight against relegation. More to follow