Wolves have appointed Glenn Hoddle as their new manager on a six-month contract.
The 47-year-old former England coach was unveiled at an 11am press conference, bringing to an end Wolves' month-long search for a successor to Dave Jones.
Jones parted company with the Coca-Cola Championship club on November 1 after the club's relegation from the Premiership last season was followed by a miserable start to the new campaign.
Hoddle, out of work since leaving Tottenham a year ago, will keep Stuart Gray - working as caretaker boss since Jones was sacked - as his assistant.
Gray will remain in charge for tonight's Championship match with Millwall, meaning Hoddle's first game as manager will be at Watford on Saturday.
``The club is delighted to appoint a manager of the calibre of Glenn Hoddle,'' Wolves chairman Rick Hayward told
www.wolves.co.uk.
``He has managed at the highest level with England and, most importantly to us, he has experience of taking a club into the Premiership.
``He achieved that success with Swindon Town, and our own hopes for this season remain very much alive.
``Although it has been a relatively long search, we believe Glenn fits our criteria better than anyone and is the best man for the job.''
Hoddle brings with him a wealth of top-level experience at a still relatively young age - facts not lost on Hayward who noted: ``His CV reads like a list of the Premiership who's who.
``Glenn has managed the likes of Chelsea - whom he took to an FA Cup final - Southampton whom, with Stuart's help, he led to eighth in the league and then most recently Tottenham Hotspur.
``He believes in playing football in a style that fits our reputation; he is of the right age and, having taken a year out, Glenn is hungry to get back into football. He has spoken to two Premiership clubs of late - and so for us to get him, we believe, is a real coup.
``We are particularly happy that Stuart will remain at Molineux, having worked with Glenn previously. We hope to see them recreate a similar winning formula to
that which they enjoyed with the Saints.''
Hoddle began his managerial career as player-boss with Swindon before moving on to Chelsea and then taking up the England job.
His spell in charge of the national side came to an end after the 1998 World Cup when he made some controversial comments about disabled people in a newspaper interview.
He later returned to management with Southampton where he succeeded Jones - as he has now done at Wolves.
He engineered an upturn in Saints' fortunes before being lured to White Hart Lane by Tottenham, the club where he made his name as a player.
That relationship turned sour, and he left the London club early last season. Since then he applied unsuccessfully for the post of France manager and had also been linked with a return to Southampton.
Wolves are currently 17th in the Championship.
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