WOLVES are drawing up a list of managers to replace Nuno Espirito Santo amid fears he is preparing to quit, reports claim.
According to the Mail, there is a growing sense at Molineux that the coach, 47, will call time on his four-year stay at the end of the season.
The bookies have already made Jose Mourinho their favourite to land the role, should Nuno leave.
The former Tottenham boss is available after being sacked by the North London club and is joined by Eddie Howe and Porto’s Sergio Conceicao.
But reports suggest Wolves will look elsewhere with Mourinho’s former assistant Rui Faria among three men targeted.
The 45-year-old did not join Mourinho at Spurs as he made his own managerial bow with a year in charge of Qatari club Al-Duhail.
Vitor Pereira, last seen coaching Shanghai SIPG, and Carlos Carvalhal’s old Sheffield Wednesday assistant Bruno Lage are also named in the report.
Lage, 44, most recently managed Benfica and, like both Faria and Pereira, is Portuguese, out of work, and linked to Jorge Mendes.
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The agent has cut several deals with Wolves during their rise from Championship also-rans to Premier League mainstays.
One such deal saw ex-goalkeeper Nuno take charge of the team in 2017 and he has enjoyed great success, winning the Championship title before earning consecutive seventh-place finishes in the top-flight.
But the Portuguese coach is said to be considering his future amid rumours of a switch to Tottenham and Spain described as another option.
That would allow him to be closer to his Porto-based family and he spoke earlier this month of how difficult it had been to spend time away from his wife and two daughters during the pandemic.
In discussing a rare family visit, he said: “It wasn’t in the circumstances that we all wish, but it was a great lift for me, for them, for everyone and us as a family.
“You need time together and it’s been a long period without each other. We’ve faced a long period without being able to visit our own countries.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
