On a three-year contract, Wolverhampton Wanderers named former Bournemouth coach Gary O’Neil as their new manager. The Premier League team made the announcement on Wednesday, the day after Julen Lopetegui abruptly resigned from the position.
After less than a year in command, Spanish manager Lopetegui quit Wolves three days before the new season began due to disagreements.
O’Neill helped the south coast team maintain their top-flight status while serving as interim manager at Bournemouth until being appointed full-time in November of last year. However, he was fired in June.
After playing and managing at this level, O’Neil, who is 40 years old, becomes the Wolves’ youngest manager of the millennium and the first permanent British coach to take the helm of the team in six years, the club said in a statement.
On Monday, Wolves will play their first Premier League match of the season away to Manchester United in O’Neil’s debut game in control of the team.
Three days before the newest Premier League season begins, Wolves announced the appointment of Gary O’Neil as their new head coach, taking Julen Lopetegui’s place.
With a three-year contract that runs until 2026 at Molineux, the former Bournemouth manager formally takes over five days before the team kicks off the 2023–24 Premier League season with a difficult journey to Old Trafford to play Manchester United on Monday night.
Following news on Tuesday that Lopetegui and Wolves had decided to part ways after just nine months, after weeks of talks and “differences of opinion on certain issues,” O’Neil’s prompt appointment had been widely anticipated.
The members of Daniel Lopetegui’s backroom team—Pablo Sanz, Oscar Caro, Juan Peinado, Edu Rubio, Borja De Alba Alonso, and Daniel Lopetegui—also departed the club.
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