Megson applies for Wolves job

Former West Brom manager Gary Megson has revealed he has applied for the vacant Wolves post.

Megson, relieved of his managerial duties last month after telling the West Brom board he would not be extending his contract beyond next summer, said he must apply for certain managerial vacancies as part of his settlement with the Hawthorns club.

And under that criteria he has formally applied for the role as successor to Dave Jones at West Brom’s bitter Black Country rivals Wolves.

However, he is staying tight-lipped about whether he wants the job.

When asked whether he had sent off his application to the Molineux, Megson told BBC Radio Five: “Part of the agreement with the club (West Brom) is that I apply for all jobs in the top two divisions, so by virtue I have done.

“I am keen to get working at a club where I can do similar type things to what I achieved at West Brom.”

Megson was put on ‘gardening leave’ by West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace on October 26, after writing to the Baggies supremo to announce his intention to leave when his contract expired after the current season.

And after the final details of his contract were settled, Megson officially left the club on Friday last week.

Megson was concerned that off-the-pitch matters to do with his future and rumours suggesting he and Peace were constant loggerheads were affecting the team’s performance. But he insists his letter to Peace was not a letter of resignation, as Peace suggested.

“I wasn’t asking for the sack. There were grey areas about what could be happening, every other day people were saying was I staying, was I signing a new contract, was I going to get the sack and it was starting to pre-empt the important thing, the results.

“I came out and said what was my position and then I lost my job. I don’t know if it was because of that but it has happened.”

And be it with Wolves or not, Megson is as keen as ever to get back into football management.

“I love being involved in football and I happen to think I am quite good at it. Because of that I want to get back into it.”