Wolves speak to Nigel Pearson over Molineux top job
Nigel Pearson has emerged as a candidate for the Wolves job, it can be revealed.
It's believed the ex-Leicester City and Derby County boss has held initial talks with Wolves who are very much in the early stages of their search for Walter Zenga's successor,
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Pearson met with Wolves yesterday, it is understood, and he is on their shortlist to replace the Italian.
The 53-year-old fits Wolves' remit in that he is British and has enjoyed Championship success.
He guided Leicester City to the Championship title in 2013/14 and kept them in the Premier League against the odds a year later, laying the foundations for the Foxes' astonishing title-winning season last year under Claudio Ranieri.
However the former Albion coach, who worked under Bryan Robson and became caretaker boss at the Hawthorns before Tony Mowbray took over in 2006, would be a controversial choice for many.
He left both Leicester and Derby under a cloud.
In June 2015 he was sacked by the Foxes after falling foul of the club's Thai owners at the end of a season in which he attracted several negative headlines for grappling with Crystal Palace player James McArthur during a game and calling a journalist an 'ostrich'.
Pearson returned to work a year later at Championship side Derby County but lasted just four months in the job.
He was suspended last month pending a club investigation into his 'behaviour' following a heated exchange with owner Mel Morris and then left by mutual consent on October 8 with the Rams, one of the pre-season promotion favourites, in 20th place.
Pearson won only one of his nine games in charge at Derby and said he was disappointed his tenure had come to a 'premature end.
Pearson was 12/1 sixth-favourite for the Wolves job on Thursday evening.
Dougie Freedman remains the surprise odds-on favourite and it's believed the former Nottingham Forest boss has applied for the role.
Dudley-born boyhood Wolves fan Sam Allardyce is second favourite at 3/1 but it's thought to be unlikely that Wolves will move for the ex-England boss, who would prove expensive and has plenty of baggage owing to the manner in which he left the national team.
