Boss Roy Keane has revealed that he will be looking to add an assistant manager to his coaching staff during the close season. Keane is seeking to shake-up his backroom with specialist skills coach Steve Foley’s contract not being renewed.
Keane said: "I’ll be looking to bring in an assistant manager over the next few months and I’ve got one or two people in mind for that, so changes will be made in the backroom staff.”
Earlier in the season, the Blues boss was close to appointing Peter Taylor to his coaching ranks, although not as an assistant manager. Taylor was interested in a role as Keane's deputy but not one working alongside the club's other coaches. The former England boss is now manager at Bradford City and so is firmly out of the running.
The Town manager says he will be keeping U18 coach Chris Kiwomya at the club, while he will speak to Ian McParland, who he brought to the club earlier in the season, about his future next week. The former Notts County boss underwent a double hip operation yesterday and Keane will visit him next week.
Specialist skills coach Steve Foley will be leaving the club with Keane grateful for his work during his time at the club: "We won’t be renewing Steve’s contract.
"It was a tough decision because Steve’s a good man and has been very good to me since I came in, even at the start of last season and he’s done a good job with the reserves, but there are areas of the staff I need to look at and try and make changes there. But he’s a very good man and a football man.”