Liam Keen
Published9th Apr 2026, 08:30 BST
Former Wolves striker Don Goodman is ‘optimistic’ about a Championship promotion push if the club can get their summer recruitment right.
With seven games remaining, Wolves would have to pull off one of the greatest of great escapes to avoid relegation.
Goodman has backed Edwards to lead Wolves’ revival next season, if the club can recruit well and bolster the squad.
"He's lived what's going to happen to Wolves through Luton Town when they were relegated out of the Premier League, so he knows how demoralising the club can feel when it's tasted relegation,” Goodman said.
"He'll be able to use all his experience and hopefully channel it in the right direction.
"I think Wolves have the right manager and I think that was the idea in appointing him when they did.
"With a good summer of recruitment, I'd be optimistic.
"You are going to be most opponents' cup final, they're going to want to get one over on you. That's another thing that you've got to be able to contend with.
"But you'll find it's the teams that are able to grind results out when they're not quite playing at their best that will prevail at the top end of the championship.
"Rob certainly knows that, he's been through that and I think there's cause for optimism.”
Edwards initially struggled to get results when he took over in November but recently he has led an improvement in results and displays as Wolves aim to end the season with some momentum.
Goodman believes the fans will ‘respect’ the team’s efforts if they can be relegated in the ‘right way’.
"There was a point where I didn't think they were going to break Derby's 11-point record,” Goodman admitted.
"In Rob's second game, away at Villa, I saw signs of life. They were unlucky to lose after a screamer from Kamara and I went to Molineux three days later for the Nottingham Forest fame with some optimism.
"But what I saw was so bad, as bad as it could be, and that was the point in early December where I thought they might not get to 11 points because at that point they only had two points and half the season had gone.
"Credit to Rob and the players, they've galvanised themselves, albeit too late.
"I don't think anybody in their right mind is thinking that Wolves can get out of this now, they've literally got to win every single game and that's just simply not going to happen.
"But there is a right way and a wrong way to go down and in the first half of the season it felt like they were going to go down the wrong way and now it feels like they're going to go down screaming, kicking and fighting and I think the fans respect that.”
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