{"id":530581,"date":"2023-10-10T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=530581"},"modified":"2023-10-10T07:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:38:43","slug":"sources-birmingham-city-set-sights-on-new-sporting-director-as-gardner-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-birmingham-city-set-sights-on-new-sporting-director-as-gardner-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Birmingham City set sights on new sporting director as Gardner under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Birmingham City technical director Craig Gardner could be next to leave the club as the US owners accelerate a complete management overhaul, sources have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As revealed by Football Insider<\/strong>, Wayne Rooney has agreed to a deal to be the new manager, with John O’Shea and Ashley Cole joining him<\/a> and the appointment is set to be announced this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Eustace was sacked<\/a> on Monday, a day after Rooney quit DC United, in what was a surprise to many fans given their solid start to their Championship campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Blues are currently sixth in the league and have won five and drawn three of their opening 11 games of the campaign under Eustace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news of the manager’s departure comes at a time when sources have revealed that Gardner’s position is also under huge threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He could be the next senior member of staff to go as the shake-up continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new owners are said to want a new sporting director who will work with Rooney on recruiting players that would fit the incoming manager’s system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooney took over as manager of DC United last summer after just over a year in charge of Derby County when they were strapped for cash and forced to sell many of their top players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the MLS, Rooney was in the dug out for 48 matches, winning 12, drawing 13 and losing 23 of those games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US club are currently ninth in the league table with 40 points from 34 matches as the end of the season approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birmingham take on Middlesbrough immediately following the international break in what is expected to be Rooney’s first game in charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Birmingham City and Reading are in the race to sign Bournemouth star<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City technical director Craig Gardner could be next to leave the club as the US owners accelerate a complete management overhaul, sources have told Football Insider. As revealed by Football Insider, Wayne Rooney has agreed to a deal to be the new manager, with John O’Shea and Ashley Cole joining him and the appointment …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[5618,7,4],"tags":[1497],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530586,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530581\/revisions\/530586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}