Wolverhampton Wanderers have parted ways with manager Vítor Pereira after a bitterly disappointing start to the current campaign which has left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League standings, multiple reports have confirmed.
Pereira only joined Wolves in December 2024 and earned plenty of plaudits for leading the team away from a relegation battle, ultimately surviving the drop by a comfortable margin of 17 points.
This season, however, things have not gone to plan for Pereira, whose Wolves side had failed to win any of their first 10 Premier League games of the new season and sit bottom of the standings with just two points to their name.
Having endured a similarly miserable start to the 2024–25 season, Wolves now have the unwanted honour of being the first team in Premier League history to fail to win any of their first 10 games in successive campaigns.
Recent weeks saw Pereira clash with supporters over the team’s direction, while the future of striker Jørgen Strand Larsen also proved to be an unwelcome distraction after a summer of transfer interest from Newcastle United.
After Saturday’s defeat to Fulham, Pereira insisted he would not quit from his position and vowed to turn things around, but Wolves officials declined to give him the chance to do so.
“I’m a fighter,” he said. “I never give up. I’m not this kind of person. I will try my best in the next training to mentally recover the team, to tactically recover the organisation that we need for the next game.
“We need to reflect about what happened today because it was not the team. Before this game, if you look for the Burnley game, if you look for the Sunderland game, one half of the time we played in a good level, and the other half of the time we struggled and didn’t play in our level. We cannot play one half in our level and the other half in a different level. We must be consistent.
“Today, in my mind, I thought we’;l go there—changing some players—and we can show that we can be consistent in a full game, but it was not the case.
“If I’m happy, I’m happy, if I’m proud, I’m proud, but I cannot represent that today. I am not proud. I am not happy, and we must play in a better level and we must give the answer in the next game.”
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