Saudi youth coach Vitor Pereira is on his way to coach Wolverhampton

Saudi-Portuguese Al-Shabab coach Vitor Pereira is heading to coach Wolverhampton, which plays in the English Football League, according to what reports in England and Portugal indicated on Tuesday.

The British BBC website revealed that Pereira will head to Wolverhampton on Tuesday to sign the contract, and it may be officially announced in the evening.

On the other hand, the widely circulated Portuguese newspaper “Apola” reported that Wolverhampton would pay compensation amounting to one million euros to obtain the services of Pereira, who took over youth training last February before renewing his position in July.

Wolverhampton had sacked their coach, Gary O’Neill, due to poor results after he had won only two matches out of 16 and suffered 11 defeats, the last of which was on Saturday against his humble guest, Ipswich Town, 1-2, his fourth in a row, in addition to 3 draws, to find himself in a bad situation this season, as It is threatened with relegation to the ranks of the second-tier “Championship” clubs, and it has scored only 9 points out of a possible 48.

Pereira (56 years old) has extensive experience in the field of training after supervising Porto, Fenerbahce in Turkey, Olympiacos in Greece, in addition to Corinthians and Flamengo in Brazil.

On the other hand, Al-Shabab occupies sixth place in the Saudi League, 13 points behind leaders Al-Ittihad after 13 rounds.