Rob Edwards did not take Middlesbrough training on Friday, leaving his future in serious doubt amid continued interest from Wolves. Boro swiftly rejected an official approach from the Premier League club for their head coach on Thursday but 24 hours later uncertainty remains in regards to the situation.

As of Friday afternoon Edwards was set for discussions with the Boro hierarchy, including owner Steve Gibson, over his future, with the high-flying Championship club preparing to host Birmingham at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday. It is understood Edwards’s assistants Adi Viveash and Harry Watling led training on Friday. In an extraordinary chain of events, Boro pulled the plug on Edwards’s pre-match press conference earlier amid the ongoing speculation.

Wolves, bottom of the Premier League after taking just two points from their opening 10 matches, shortlisted Edwards after sacking Vitor Pereira last Sunday following a 3-0 defeat at Fulham, an eighth league loss in 10 Premier League this season. Their executive chair, Jeff Shi, have a longstanding interest in Edwards, who previously represented the club as both a player and a coach. The 42-year-old also had a period in caretaker charge at Molineux in October 2016, shortly after Fosun, Wolves’s Chinese...