Rui Fuste has been promoted to Head Physio as Wolves reshape their medical and performance department ahead of the new Premier League season.
Fuste has been with the club for seven years, arriving at a time when the club were beginning to sign a lot of Portuguese players. He replaces Ben Macdonald, who joined Wolves in August 2021 from British Cycling, where he was also Head Physio.
Head of High Performance Phil Hayward said: “We recruited Rui from Portugal when we had a number of Portuguese players and were looking for somebody who had a good understanding of how those players like to work to make sure we met their needs.
“He’s been a great member of staff, has really developed his clinical practice, but also demonstrated strong management and leadership skills too. He’s really helped develop the other physios in the department, so this summer was an opportunity to give him the recognition we think he deserves and promote him into a senior leadership role.
“In addition, it’s been great to see how he brings on the British physios, who have been trained in the domestic education system which has different focus points.”
In addition, Gregg Jones has joined from Shrewsbury Town as First Team Soft Tissue Therapist.
Hayward said: “Gregg started with us at the beginning of this calendar year. He’s in charge of our soft tissue therapy around training and matches, so he works very closely alongside the physios and Kai Win, our doctor.
“He has great techniques and adds another facet to our breadth of treatments.”
And Sam Cook has arrived from Bristol City as First Team Physical Performance Coach.
“This is a new role, and we feel with his skillset he’s going to be a great addition not only in the gym,
