Wolves have sacked manager Bruno Lage after 16 months in charge following Saturday’s defeat by West Ham United left them in the bottom three.<\/span><\/p>\n Wolves have won just one and lost nine of their past 15 Premier League matches under the Portuguese.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lage succeeded Nuno Espirito Santo last summer and led Wolves to a 10th-placed finish in his first season in charge.<\/span><\/p>\n However, his side have only scored three goals and picked up six points from eight games this season.<\/span><\/p>\n The decision has come after high-level meetings in the wake of Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at the London Stadium, which raised renewed questions over the former Benfica boss.<\/span><\/p>\n The club hierarchy felt the current run of form was a poor return given they have spent in excess of \u00a3100m on new players this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n They brought in Portuguese internationals Goncalo Guedes and Matheus Nunes, with the latter bought for a club record fee of \u00a338m.<\/span><\/p>\n Lage, 46, also signed veteran forward Diego Costa, who had been a free agent for nine months and made his first competitive appearance since December 2021 against West Ham.<\/span><\/p>\n However, \u00a315m summer signing Sasa Kalajdzic damaged knee ligaments days after his move from Stuttgart and key striker Raul Jimenez suffered knee and groin injuries in a pre-season friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n Wolves fans turned against Lage at the London Stadium, singing ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ at the Portuguese as their team slipped to defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n They are winless in eight Premier League away games – their worst top-flight run since 2011-12. <\/span><\/p>\n The manner of the defeat left club officials believing they had little alternative than to part company with Lage, who started with a back three despite allowing popular skipper <\/span>Conor Coady to leave for Everton<\/span><\/a> in August because he wanted to play with two at the back.<\/span><\/p>\n “The only thing I can say is that I’m sorry about the situation,” Lage said in his final post-match news conference as manger. <\/span><\/p>\n “We’ve tried to solve these little problems we have and at the moment we aren’t getting points or goals, but we are working hard for them.”<\/span><\/p>\n Lage’s replacement will be Wolves’ third Premier League manager since Terry Connor in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n
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