Leicester City are claimed to be close to appointing James McCarron as their new sporting director
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha at the Leicester City training ground(Image: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
James McCarron is due to start as Leicester City’s new sporting director next month.
That’s according to the BBC Sport who claim the Foxes are close to appointing McCarron to fill what is a newly-created role.
McCarron is currently director of player development at the City Group – the umbrella company which oversees the likes of Manchester City, New York City FC and Melbourne City.
McCarron has been associated with Man City since 2018 and was their women’s team’s head of sports science and medicine for three years before taking over as sporting director at one of their sister clubs, Belgian side Lommel, for four seasons. He assumed his current role last summer.
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He has also been Elite Performance Manager at the Premier League and Head of Performance at Sunderland. It is expected he will come to the King Power to work alongside director of football Jon Rudkin.
Speaking about the role last month City chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha said: “We have to get back to what the identity of Leicester is.
“When the structure changes and we get the new sporting director in, we will make sure that we are seeing what the identity of Leicester is, what football we should play, what player we should bring in. I think that will be more clear.
“The identity has to be clear. I’m not saying the new guy is going to be coming in and changing everything just like that. It will take time. We have to build a squad and a culture.
“He’s not going to be a wizard, but it will be someone who is sure how we should play football and will help the manager and players to understand how.”
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