Wolves: Thelwell's Adventure

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Eric Cantona

Manchester United legend Eric Cantona is our new Director of Football, with the former French national voicing his interest in returning to football on a non-playing role. This is his first staff role and he'll have plenty to do.

Alan Robertson

Coming to us from Kilmarnock, 59-year-old Robertson brings along a wealth of experience with him in the game. The Scotsman has been at Kilmarnock since 1972, first as a player, as he made 481 appearances for the Killie before retiring in 1989 at the age of 36. He was hired as youth team manager six months later, and settled into a new role as Head of Youth after nine years as manager of the Under-18s. Since 1998, Robertson has been working fervently as Kilmarnock's Head of Youth and to persuade him to move to Molineux is a great achievement for the club.

Roy Aitken

Aitken, like Robertson, also brings a wealth of experience to Molineux. Making 600 appearances as a player for clubs like Celtic, Newcastle and Aberdeen, Aitken first started out as an player and assistant manager for Aberdeen, holding two roles until his retirement as a player three years later in 1995. He then went on to become full-time manager of Aberdeen. Fast forward 17 years later and Aitken has held roles as youth manager and assistant manager at clubs like Leeds, Aston Villa and Birmingham, and also the Scotland national team. The 53-year-old's latest role will be with us Wolves and he'll hopefully do a world of good for us.

Paulo Cesar Batista dos Santos

Paulo Cesar has been serving as a coach at his beloved Cruzeiro since 2001 and his talents at helping players achieve their potential has alerted us, and the 44-year-old wasted no time in seizing an opportunity to further his career in England.

Rodrigo Chagas

A rather young coach at the age of 39, Chagas started out as a manager in the lower-leagues of Brazil, with the club Ipitanga handing him his first and so far, the only managerial role he has had. He left six months later however, to join Vitoria as a youth team coach. We found him working as a coach at Bahia, whom he joined from Vitoria, and after being impressed by his manner of coaching, he has been offered to join the backroom team at the Molineux.

Lucio Novelli

The oldest of the new coaches at 62 years old, Novelli's first job came at Bahia in 1995. He joined Portuguese side Uniao Madeira in 2004 only to return to Bahia two years later in 2006. He joins Wolves with fellow colleague Rodrigo Chagas and he'll mainly be in charge of bringing up our squad's fitness levels and strengths.

Chico Fraga

Amazingly, every coach we hired were from Brazil. Chico Fraga is the last of our four South American coaches. Fraga's only coaching job so far is at Internacional for a period of six years, and although not very experienced, he is renowned for his prowess in coaching strikers and forwards, thus we have a feeling he'll be a good addition.

Ludek Miklosko

A 50-year-old former Czech international, Miklosko has as a player turned out for West Ham and Queens Park Rangers. He had a career as goalkeeping coach at West Ham that spanned nine years, and he'll be a valuable addition for our goalkeepers.

Paul Winsper

Although not very famous, Winsper worked as a fitness coach for ten years at Newcastle, and also a short year at Toronto FC in the Major League Soccer. He will be in charge of the entire club's fitness levels and we're certain he'll do a brilliant job.

Les Parry

Our new Head Physio is 54-year-old Les Parry, most known for his 18 years working as a physio for Tranmere Rovers, and after that a three-year stint at the same club as manager. He will be tasked with managing our physios and although he has not had a job at a club in a higher league than League One, we have no doubt he'll perform to his best.

Elias Natan

Natan's only role has been as a physio at Bahia and not much is known about him. However, he was recommended by the other South Americans at the club who know how he works and we'll see what he can do.

Daniel Lasfargues

The Frenchman has worked in his native France all his life and has jumped at the chance to work in England with us. He has had roles at SC Bastia and Stade de Reims and it remains to be seen how if he'll be able to do what is necessary for us at Wolves.

Gilmar Francisco

Our new Chief Scout is 45-year-old Gilmar Francisco. He has been introducing talents to Cruzeiro since 2007 and his scouting ability impressed us a lot and thus Gilmar has been given the leadership role of our Chief Scout.

Wesley Carvalho

A scout from Vitoria, 38-year-old Carvalho isn't so experienced in the scouting business, but was personally recommended by Gilmar Francisco.

Borba Filho

Another one personally recommended by Gilmar, Borba Filho's only experience in scouting so far has been at Atletico Paranaense, who play in Brazil's Second Division.

Yves Dupuy

His work as a Director of Football and scout at Havre AC came to our attention and he has agreed to join the ranks of the Wolves scouting team.

Ayres Morais de Albuquerque

The oldest of our scouting team at 71 years old, Ayres is fairly unknown in the footballing world but his interview at Molineux impressed us, and we have given the senior citizen a chance to work with us.

Herbert Briem

Briem is another non-experienced man in the scouting department, with his role at Wolves being his first scouting job. However, like Ayres, he impressed us with his initial interview and we have handed him the chance.