Dave Jones To Return As Wolves Manager?

Updated: Wolves have announced the appointment of Terry Connor as manager until the end of the season. Our report HERE. Wolves will turn to former boss Dave Jones to end their two week nightmare search for a new manager. Jones previously managed the club for three years between 2001-2004 and helped the club win promotion to the Premier League in 2003 before being seeing Wolves relegated 12 months later. He has been out of work since leaving Cardiff City last summer and the Wolves owners are believed to have put an SOS call out to him in the last few days, possibly reminded that Jones has said he has "unfinished business" at Molineux. After Mick McCarthy was sacked on Monday 13th February, Wolves owners have interviewed almost a dozen candidates for the position but despite offers being put out to managers in and out of work, nobody seems to want the job except the one man they aren't sure can keep them up. Alan Curbishley was first offered the job a week ago but he wasn't happy with the offer put on the table for him and he turned it down. During the first round of interviews they also spoke to Neil Warnock but before they could return his call he had taken the job at Leeds United last Saturday. They also interviewed Steve Bruce after he wrote up a 'survival dossier' of plans to keep the Black Country side in England's top division but this time, instead the candidate was desperate for the job but Wolves weren't convinced Bruce was the right man after sending Sunderland in the wrong direction this season. They never returned Bruce's calls. Earlier this week they approached Reading manager Brian McDermott who rejected the offer, wanting instead to focus on getting his side promoted to the Premier League as they currently find themselves in the play-off places and even Alan Curbishley who again turned down the job after amazingly being offered it a second time. They also inquired about Brighton's manager Gus Poyet but that never went very far. Finally on Thursday desperate Wolves turned to former Everton and Rangers man Walter Smith on a temporary basis until the end of the season but he turned them down too;

"It's true I'm not going ," the former Rangers manager said. "I was totally unsure whether I really wanted to do it or not. It was a purely personal thing, nothing to do with Wolves. "I know Jez Moxey and knew I was more of a fallback than anything. We didn't even get as far as discussing money. There was never a face-to-face meeting and we never discussed finance. If someone asks you, you're pleased to be asked, but the longer you think about it, you start to ask yourself whether it was right."

Wolves had claimed they would have a new manager installed with plenty of time for this weekend's game away at Newcastle United, one of the 13 games they have remaining this season to survive, but unless there is a late appointment today Wolves assistant manager Terry Connor will be in temporary charge for tomorrow's game. Wolves will be attempting to run an awful period where they have taken just 14 points from 22 games but in the past fortnight it has been the off the field shambles that has embarrassed the club.