Sources: Wolves move for Lage hits Brexit stumbling block after talks
Wolves are in talks to appoint Bruno Lage as their new manager but they have hit a stumbling block over his backroom staff, Football Insider understands.
Strict Brexit regulations makes hiring from Europe a far more complex process than previously.
Football Insider understands Wolves are expected to offer Lage the chance to succeed Nuno Espirito Santo after talks this week.
But deals for his assistant coaches could be held up as the Midlands club navigate red tape.
Nuno’s extensive backroom team left the club along with the Portuguese at the end of the season.
It means the appointment of the new manager could be weeks rather than days away.
Lage, 45, has been recommended to Wolves by club consultant Jorge Mendes, widely regarded as the world’s most powerful agent.
Just days before the end of the season, it was announced Nuno would leave Wolves after four years at the helm.
Lage has been out of work since June 2020 after he was sacked by Benfica.
English football recently faced a huge shake-up as a result of the UK leaving the EU.
New Brexit rules mean anyone looking for a visa as a “performance manager” needs a degree and five years’ experience in bands one to five or at international level.
Band one covers the top five European leagues with the rest of the bands reflecting the diminishing quality of other continental divisions.
This makes hiring foreign staff significantly harder than it was under the previous rules.
This is the visa Lage’s backroom team will be looking for.
Needing a degree and five years of experience limits the options available to Lage and Wolves.
Wanderers finished 13th in the recently concluded Premier League.
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