In profile: The lowdown on incoming Wolves boss Cesar Peixoto | OneFootball

Cesar Peixoto arrives at Wolves as a largely unfamiliar figure in England, though recent work in Portugal offers encouragement.

ExpressAndStar.com notes it is the club’s most leftfield hire since Walter Zenga. Zenga was a former Italy international with more than 300 Inter Milan appearances.

Peixoto’s Portugal career amounts to late minutes in a 2008 friendly defeat to Brazil. What they do share is restlessness.

Wolves will be Peixoto’s ninth job in a little over seven years, including repeat stints at two clubs. His best work has come at Gil Vicente, who he now leaves.

They finished sixth last season in the Portuguese First Division, and his 16 months is his longest tenure after never lasting beyond 30 matches.

A product of Vitor Guimaraes’ academy, he reached the top flight with Belenenses, then joined Porto. A Champions League knee injury against Marseille stalled him and he missed the team that became European champions months later.

Moves to Braga in 2007 and Benfica in 2009 followed, winning the league and cup double in 2010, before two-and-a-half years at Gil Vicente and retirement in 2014.

He entered management at Varzim nearly five years later, keeping them up. Short spells at Coimbra, Chaves and Moreirense totalled 33 matches, then two at Pacos Ferreira, the second ending in relegation in 2023.

After a year out he returned at Moreirense in summer 2024, was sacked after seven months, then joined Gil Vicente weeks later. Results since have improved, which Wolves will hope continues.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com