Waning Wolves part ways with Gary O'Neil

Gary O'Neil has been sacked as head coach of Wolves.

The club sit second-from-bottom in the Premier League with nine points from 16 games after Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to fellow strugglers Ipswich – Wolves’ fourth consecutive loss.

Emotions spilled over at full-time as Rayan Ait-Nouri was shown a second yellow card and Matheus Cunha also had to be restrained.

O’Neil was appointed in August 2023 following the departure of Julen Lopetegui and signed a new four-year deal with the club in August this year.

In a statement on the club website, Wolves chairman Jeff Shi said: "We're very grateful to Gary for all of his effort, dedication and hard work during his time at the club, and we wish him and his team the best of luck for the future."

Wolves finished 14th in his first season at the club but have found themselves in a relegation scrap this year.

Frustrations also boiled over in Monday night’s defeat to West Ham when Mario Lemina scuffled with Jarrod Bowen after the full-time whistle, resulting in the Wolves midfielder being stripped of the captaincy.

Wanderers were then beaten by Jack Taylor’s stoppage-time header on Saturday having taken an early lead through Ireland ful-back Matt Doherty’s own goal and following the full-time scuffles, O’Neil said his players needed to "take some responsibility".

"We deal with things like that very, very seriously, as you saw last week," O’Neil said.

"It’s annoying in that we’ve got enough to do at this moment in time, we’ve got enough to fix without me having to spend time on things that go on off the pitch.

"So the players do need to take some responsibility. But I’ll help them with all of it so we get back to work on Monday morning."

O’Neil also expressed frustration with the goals his side