Wolves news: Cesar Peixoto appointment confirmed, the stats that should concern fans of Molineux club

Wolverhampton Wanderers person confirmed that Cesar Peixoto has been appointed arsenic the club's caller caput manager connected a two-year contract.

Prior to Rob Edwards being sacked by the relegated Premier League club past week, Gil Vicente's Peixoto was being heavy linked with a determination to Molineux.

Although 4 days person passed by since Edwards's exit, determination has been nary uncertainty implicit the 46-year-old yet being confirmed arsenic manager.

While Wolves person stressed that Peixoto is inactive to beryllium granted a enactment permit, they person formally announced that helium volition beryllium the club's brag for the commencement of beingness backmost successful the Championship.

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Peixoto calls Wolves "a large fish"

Speaking to the club's authoritative website, Peixoto feels that some helium and the existent playing squad tin amended arsenic the 2026-27 play progresses.

He said: "We person large players, but I deliberation the squad tin amended a batch with maine and I tin amended arsenic a method caput coach. I privation to enactment my individuality onto the team, physique a beardown individuality astatine the nine and besides assistance the squad to grow. This is simply a large accidental to amusement my individuality and my mode of playing.

"This is an astonishing club, and it is important for maine to marque Wolves play successful a mode which reflects the fans. It’s a hard-working metropolis with a batch of vigor and a batch of passionateness and I privation the squad to play similar that, to play with passion, to play with bully energy, and marque the fans blessed with our thought of the game."

Peixoto added: "The close imaginativeness is important. Wolves successful the Championship is simply a large fish, and we cognize we person to play well, we cognize we person to triumph games, but with an violative individuality with the shot and a caller oculus implicit the team, this is the benignant of imaginativeness I have. The owners besides person this vision, truthful it is important for us, for maine and for the club, to physique a large team, play good for the fans, nutrient charismatic shot and enactment Wolves successful the Premier League.

"But the cardinal is pre-season. It is important due to the fact that of however pugnacious the Championship is. We person a batch of games and if you bash a bully pre-season, successful presumption of physicality, successful presumption of putting my ideas of the crippled wrong the players, past aft that we tin onslaught the play successful the champion way.

"You don’t person clip to enactment a batch from game-to-game and it becomes difficult, truthful during pre-season I privation to physique a beardown individuality and bring prime players with quality into the squad who tin header with that unit until the end.

"It’s important we enactment arsenic a portion successful the club, not lone for me, but for the players, each the unit and each the radical wrong the nine to enactment unneurotic arsenic a unit. This is however you tin beryllium bully passim the season, not conscionable for 1 oregon 2 games, but the full season, due to the fact that it is simply a pugnacious season. We request each the radical helping america to bring bully results to Wolves."

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Three Peixoto stats that should interest Wolves fans

Although Peixoto guided Gil Vicente to a sixth-placed decorativeness successful the 2025-26 Primeira Liga table, they won conscionable 2 of their last 12 matches.

As good arsenic six games being mislaid during that period, determination were besides conscionable 2 cleanable sheets record, portion their past distant occurrence came connected February 7.

Furthermore, Peixoto has mislaid 71 of his 164 matches arsenic a manager, ne'er lasting much than 46 games successful a occupation crossed 8 antithetic roles.