Simon Jordan has launched another attack against former Middlesbrough manager Rob Edwards.
The 42-year-old took charge at the Riverside this summer after Boro parted ways with Michael Carrick. The jury was out on Edwards, who had been let go by Luton Town just a few months before.
However, Middlesbrough started the season strongly and immediately established itself as one of the clubs vying for automatic promotion. Edwards appeared to have captured the group and elevated them to a new level, with an exceedingly favorable marketing reportedly in the works for the relationship.
Wolves dismissed Vítor Pereira after a poor start to the 2025/26 Premier League season. It rapidly became clear that Edwards was their favorite candidate to fill the position, and he was eager to make the transition.
This left Boro in the lurch, and the new Wolves manager faced widespread criticism from several sides. Simon Jordan, former Crystal Palace owner and talkSPORT anchor, was one of the most vociferous individuals during this controversy.
Simon Jordan launches new onslaught against Rob Edwards.
Jordan did not mince words while attacking Edwards, claiming that he had “let everybody down,” calling his prior comments about Boro a “pack of lies,” and severely challenging the 42-year-old’s “integrity”.
Edwards has struggled in his new post, with Wolves losing all four of their games under his supervision.
Wanderers have surrendered eight goals in this period, netting only once, and are already 13 points from relegation.
Jordan has exploited this form to launch another attack on Edwards, claiming that he has no empathy for the manager and that the Wolves manager cannot simply accept relegation to the Championship.
“Your team, you wanted this job, go coach it,” Jordan told talkSPORT. “No sympathy.” You wanted the job. It was a spiritual home. Sir, off you go. Coach the team. Turn them into a bunch of men.
“I don’t have it in for him. I do not admire his behavior. So I’d give him no empathy. What should I say? Okay, I hope he performs well. Make things better. That is what you were brought in to do. You are going to be relegated.
“It’s how you are relegated that matters because it will create a legacy for the football club that no one wants because you’ll be smacked around the head with it everywhere you go. That you were the weakest team in the Premier League if you finished last with the lowest number of points, aside from Derby.
“Because the only goal in Wolves’ minds right now, if I’m the owner, is to look ahead 18 months and say, ‘Am I going to get this team back into the Premier League?'”
“What does my financial future look like now, in terms of the economics of what’s coming up for me? Because I am going down. Despite your best efforts to avoid confronting reality and hide behind the sofa, relegation is inevitable.”
Rob Edwards may regret Wolves’ decision.
At the moment Edwards decided to leave Middlesbrough for Wolves, they still had a slim chance of survival if he struck the ground running.
That no longer appears to be the case, and although the 42-year-old is suffering in the Premier League, Middlesbrough have maintained their impressive run.
Boro are only five points behind league leaders Coventry City, and they appear to be on track to win promotion until May.
Edwards could have maintained control of this movement and reaped the benefits it may have brought. In the end, it appears that he may be returning to the second division, and there is no assurance that Wolves will opt to keep him in charge following relegation.
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