Vitor Pereira leaves Saudi Professional League membership Al Shabab to take instant cost on the English Premier League strugglers.
Premier League struggler Wolverhampton Wanderers have employed much-travelled coach Vitor Pereira from Saudi Professional League membership Al Shabab.
The 56-year-old Pereira takes over a workforce in next-to-last place in England’s prime flight, with simply two wins from 16 video games. Wolves are 5 factors from security approaching the midway level within the league.
Gary O’Neil was fired on Sunday — a day after a 2-1 loss to relegation rival Ipswich City — after 16 months in cost.
“Pereira has taken coaching at Compton Park for the primary time on Thursday and might be in cost when Wolves journey to Leicester Metropolis this weekend,” Wolves mentioned in an announcement prematurely of the Premier League conflict at King Energy Stadium on Saturday.
Wolves have paid the discharge clause in Pereira’s contract with Al Shabab with the Portuguese signing an 18-month deal at Molineux.
Welcome to Wolves, Vitor
— Wolves (@Wolves) December 19, 2024
Following the match at Leicester, Wolves face Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur later this month.
“It is a difficult second for the membership, and we wish to thank Vitor for taking over this accountability,” Wolves chairman Jeff Shi mentioned.
“We have now full confidence in his capacity to information us again on monitor, alongside the gamers and employees, and your complete membership might be united in supporting him to attain success.”
Pereira first made a reputation for himself at Porto as assistant to Andre Villas-Boas, who left to affix Chelsea in 2011 leaving his protégé to take over as supervisor of the Portuguese facet.
Pereira received the Primeira Liga twice with Porto, earlier than signing with Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli in 2013 and starting a globe-trotting profession that may see him handle golf equipment equivalent to Olympiakos Piraeus, Fenerbahce, Shanghai Port and Flamengo.
Al Shabab are at the moment sixth within the Saudi Professional League after 13 video games and are 13 factors adrift of chief Al-Ittihad, with seven wins and 4 defeats to their title this season.
The squad are at the moment in Qatar for a coaching camp earlier than their subsequent league fixture at one other of Pereira’s former golf equipment, Al Ahli, on January 10.
Let’s go!
The start of the Doha camppic.twitter.com/A329LVbu0g
— AlShabab Saudi Membership (@AlShabab_EN) December 18, 2024
