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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akim Woler.

Wolves have sat their manager, Victor Pereira.

With no win so far this season and just two points on the board,

all signs are leading to relegation.

So, who can save them?

Here for this one, we've got Matt Slater.

We've also got long-suffering wolf supporter Tim Spears,

and we've also got David Ornstein as well.

All right, David, let's start with you

because you've been following this story closely.

Are wolves close to finding a successor to

Vito Pereira? Well, I think they wanted to give Vito Pereira as long as possible, and therefore

they didn't start a process to replace him before he was actually sacked. Once he was, the work

began in earnest. Saturday night after the Fulham defeat into Sunday,

phone calls were starting to be made to express an interest in a number of candidates,

including Gary O'Neill, to try and set up conversations.

And they moved pretty swiftly in terms of O'Neill discussions,

which we reported on the Athletic, were advancing in terms of O'Neill discussions, which we reported on the Athletic, were advancing.

In terms of Rob Edwards, who we revealed too, being in the mix, people like Michael Carrick

were admired and other names were coming out in different sections.

We also pointed to Eric Ten Haag being somebody that Wolves had expressed an interest in talking to and he had been discussed internally.

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