{"id":305,"date":"2026-05-25T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:45:41","slug":"im-leaving-and-i-promise-never-to-return-wolverhampton-wanderers-head-coach-rob-edwards-announced-his-permanent-departure-from-wolverhampton-wanderers-side-straight-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at Molineux. The 42-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The former Forest Green, Watford and Luton manager felt this was an opportunity he could not turn down. Edwards\u2019s family are based in Telford, where he was born, about half an hour from Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI know Rob very well and I have seen his growth in different jobs,\u201d the Wolves executive chair, Jeff Shi, said. \u201cHe\u2019s a very good person, he knows the club very well, he knows the city, the fans and he is very talented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhen he was a youth coach here, he showed his tactical awareness, but after he took first-team jobs he started to grow his own identity, \u00adcharacter and leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,87,83,86],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-forest-green","tag-jeff-shi","tag-rob-edwards","tag-wolves-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"sportprocess.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"554\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"554\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6\"},\"headline\":\"I&#8217;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to&#8230;.\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/images-35.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Forest Green\",\"Jeff Shi\",\"Rob Edwards\",\"Wolves news\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305\",\"name\":\"I'M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/images-35.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6\"},\"description\":\"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/images-35.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/images-35.jpeg\",\"width\":554,\"height\":554},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?p=305#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"I&#8217;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to&#8230;.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"sportprocess.co.uk\",\"description\":\"Sport news and update\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"I'M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....","description":"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"I'M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....","og_description":"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305","og_site_name":"sportprocess.co.uk","article_published_time":"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":554,"height":554,"url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6"},"headline":"I&#8217;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to&#8230;.","datePublished":"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305"},"wordCount":166,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","keywords":["Forest Green","Jeff Shi","Rob Edwards","Wolves news"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305","url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305","name":"I'M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to....","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-05-25T09:45:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6"},"description":"Wolves want their new head coach, Rob Edwards, to help \u201crefresh the whole club\u201d after luring the former defender back for a fourth spell at","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","width":554,"height":554},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=305#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"I&#8217;M Leaving and i promise never to return: Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Rob Edwards announced his permanent departure from Wolverhampton Wanderers side straight to&#8230;."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/","name":"sportprocess.co.uk","description":"Sport news and update","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6c08cc2bdd7911748ff48afaf176fed6","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8ef950cbb7574c0bc874094b8d307659bfe2d7aa4a9d26fa6917eff010748f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk"],"url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?author=1"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/images-35.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}