When last season’s top scorer for Wolverhampton, Jørgen Strand Larsen, was taken off the pitch after 69 minutes of play on Monday against Manchester United, Wolves supporters showed with ironic applause what they thought of another goalless game by the Norwegian striker. Still in free sporting fall and on a steady course towards relegation, the coach who was part of the great success with Nuno Santo is now being brought in.
Wolverhampton never recovered after Santo and the club went their separate ways in 2021, now at least the Santos wingman will return to Molineux and help Strand Larsen and the rest of the wolf pack win games.
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On Tuesday, Wolverhampton announced that Rui Pedro Silva will become an assistant coach at the club. The Portuguese was an assistant coach under Nuno Espirito Santos from 2017-2021: Head coach Rob Edwards and Silva know each other from the same period, when Edwards was coach of the club’s U23 team.
-Rui has enormous experience and knows the club inside out, and we got along very well, so we have always kept in touch. It makes perfect sense, and it’s a big scoop for us to have Rui on the staff,” Rob Edwards told the club’s website.
Nuno Santo and Rui Pedro Silva built a Wolverhampton team that plagued the big club, where trips to Molineux were something star players dreaded. Now Silva will help develop the tools that will help Wolves return to this position.
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