Pen pics of Wolves' coaching, performance and analytics staff.

WOLVES Sporting Director Matt Hobbs has been handed a one-game suspension and fined £4,000 for calling referee Anthony Taylor “absolutely f****** useless” after the 2-2 Premier League draw against Newcastle United at Molineux on October 28th.

PROSTATE UNITED is back for a sixth season and is aiming to break the £500,000 barrier. The challenge was launched by Stephen Gilpin in November 2018 and brought together hundreds of football club staff to run, cycle or walk every day of the month.

FORMER Notts County and Forest Green Rovers manager Ian Burchnall has joined Wolves as first-team coach.

SHAUN DERRY has left Crystal Palace to become Gary O’Neil’s assistant at Wolves. West Ham Under-21s Lead Mark Robson and Bournemouth first-team coach Tim Jenkins are also expected to move to Molineux.

SIX staff have left Wolves along with manager Julen Lopetegui, just nine months after arriving at the Molineux club.

NEIL CUTLER has been appointed Head of Goalkeeping at Wolves after Tony Roberts left to join AC Milan.

PHIL HAYWARD has returned to Wolves as Head of High Performance as the club undergo significant change behind the scenes ahead of the new season.

FIRST-TEAM Analyst Tom Hocking outlines how Wolves use video analysis to empower and develop their young players.

STEVE DAVIS has been appointed to the new role of Player Pathways Manager by Wolves, with the objective of linking the first team and Academy.

JULEN LOPETEGUI has brought seven staff with him to Wolves. This is in stark contrast to Brentford, who have been eager for their footballing intellectual property to remain in the club, rather than coming and going with the Head Coach.

WOLVES Head of Performance and Medicine Rob Chakraverty has left the club after two years. The former England national team doctor joined the club in May 2020 as Lead Doctor for the Academy before stepping up to become first-team doctor and then Head of Performance and Medicine.

MATT HOBBS has been promoted from Chief Scout and Head of Recruitment to replace Scott Sellars as Sporting Director at Wolves.

JON HUNTER-BARRETT has been promoted to Academy Manager at Wolves, with Laura Nicholls as Head of Academy Operations.

WOLVES have launched a dedicated Academy website that they say is the first of its kind in the Premier League and will enable them to “provide a higher level of detail and resource than any other Academy across the globe.”

WOLVES have announced a big revamp of their medical and performance department, involving the hiring of six new staff and a change of roles and responsibilities for several others.

WOLVES manager Bruno Lage has announced his backroom team at Molineux, bringing in six new staff.

WOLVES Loans Manager Seyi Olofinjana has been confirmed as the new Technical Director of Swiss side Grasshopper Zurich.

SIX backroom staff are leaving Wolves along with manager Nuno Espírito Santo following the end of the Premier League season.

FORMER Everton, Norwich and Wigan defender Matt Jackson has joined Wolves to become English football’s first Strategic Player Marketing Manager.

FOLLOWING Scott Sellars' promotion to Technical Director at the start of this year, Jonathan Hunter-Barrett and Laura Nicholls have taken over the day-to-day running of the club's Category One Academy. They told TGG how they've been getting on.

WOLVES players and staff have commissioned a painting of club doctor Matt Perry to thank him for his work during the coronavirus pandemic.

SCOTT SELLARS has been promoted to Technical Director by Wolves, filling a position that has been vacant at the club since Kevin Thelwell left to join New York Red Bulls last February.

WOLVES Academy Manager Scott Sellars explains why the club are advertising for a unique role for showcasing young talent for development and recruitment.

MATHEW PEARSON has been promoted to the new role of Head of Performance and Analysis by Wolves.

WOLVES Head Coach Nuno Espirito Santo dedicated his manager of the month award for June to five members of backroom staff who had paved the way for his team to return to the training ground in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

FORMER England doctor Robin Chakraverty has been appointed to a full-time position by Wolves.

WOLVES manager Nuno Espírito Santo has explained why he doesn't hand out fines to players, preferring instead to let them take responsibility for their own actions.

WOLVES Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell is leaving the club after more than 11 years to become the first Head of Sport at the New York Red Bulls.

WOLVES Head of Sports Science and Medical Phil Hayward is leaving the club after 11-and-a-half years to join LA Galaxy.

SOME might dismiss Harry Redknapp as a hangover from a bygone age, but Ben Dirs finds the 71-year-old as passionate and thought-provoking as ever about the game he loves.

WOLVES are on course to match Liverpool’s 23-year-old record for the fewest number of players used in a Premier League season.

SCOTT SELLARS has replaced Gareth Prosser as Head of Academy by Wolves.

WOLVES Academy manager Gareth Prosser is leaving the club after a decade to lead the new body that will be auditing clubs.

FORMER Blackburn and Newcastle winger Scott Sellars tells TGG about his work at Wolves' renowned Academy.

FORMER Premier League footballer (and champion boxer) Curtis Woodhouse tells Ben Dirs why he's learnt so much managing Bridlington Town in the Northern Counties Premier Division.

IAN CATHRO has been reunited with mentor Nuno Espirito Santo after being appointed as first-team coach at Wolves.

FORMER Wolves player and coach Rob Edwards has rejoined the club as Under-23s boss.

SCOTT SELLARS has been promoted to Head of Academy Player Development at Wolves following an internal restructure of coaching at the club.

SPANISH side Espanyol have made an approach for Wolves European scout Miguel Rios.

DANNY CIPRIANI is one of English rugby's great talents, but hasn't started a Test for 10 years. He tells Ben Dirs about refusing to fit the mould.

MUCH of the credit for Wolves' promotion to the Premier League has understandably gone to manager Nuno Espirito Santo. But Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell, a man we seldom hear of or from, has arguably been just as important.

FOR YEARS, the barmaid at The Borough thought the small, grey-haired chap wearing an old England rugby shirt was just another regular. She was right, up to a point.

TRAINING GROUND GURU has been shortlisted for sport website of the year at the prestigious Sport Journalism Awards.

OUR top 10 best-read stories of 2017, ranging from Redfearn to Ranieri.

WOLVES have recruited Andrew Findlay from Manchester United to become their new Head of Performance Analysis.

MARTIN EDWARDS transformed Manchester United from a club in the doldrums into a corporate juggernaut. So why doesn't he get more credit? Ben Dirs went to meet the club's unloved emperor.

MIGUEL RIOS, Fulham's former senior scout, has been appointed European scout by high-flying Wolves.

Steph Curry and Danny Cipriani are enthusiastic members of the floating fraternity. We sent Ben Dirs down to Float Level in Manchester to find out what it's all about.

DARREN RYAN has been named as the permanent coach of Wolves Under-18s after holding the position for the final few months of last season..

Ex-England striker Alan Smith reveals the truth about his acrimonious exit from Leeds, the injury that almost ended his career and why he is relishing every moment with Notts County.