{"id":533774,"date":"2023-10-30T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=533774"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:56:48","slug":"sources-birmingham-city-agree-deal-with-ex-man-city-chief-mike-rigg-as-start-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-birmingham-city-agree-deal-with-ex-man-city-chief-mike-rigg-as-start-date-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Birmingham City agree deal with ex-Man City chief Mike Rigg as start date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mike Rigg has agreed to join Birmingham City in will begin work in a recruitment role in January, sources have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will initially work as part of the academy set-up but it will be part of a phased overhaul at St Andrew’s, which will see him take a hands-on role in identifying signings for the first team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 53-year-old<\/a> is currently employed as sporting director at Al-Jazira in the United Arab Emirates after arriving at the club in October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Football Insider <\/strong>revealed the Blues’ interest in Rigg back on 10 October<\/a> – shortly after Wayne Rooney replaced John Eustace in the managerial hot seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CEO Garry Cook is eager to add him to the backroom staff as part of the latest stage of Birmingham’s transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They worked together at Man City, where Rigg was the sporting director between 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Gardner is currently employed as Birmingham’s technical director and is expected to stay on as he has a tight contract with the Midlands club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blues made no fewer than 12 first-team signings in the summer window following the arrival of new owners Shelby Companies Limited in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dion Sanderson, Krystian Bielik and Siriki Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 were among those to arrive at St Andrew’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooney has lost three games on the bounce since replacing Eustace earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new boss fell to his latest defeat away at Southampton on Saturday (28 October), with the south coast side running out 3-1 winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birmingham now sit 14th in the Championship table with 18 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had occupied a playoff place after 11 games – before ex-boss Eustace was relieved of his duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, ex-defender wants Millwall job and will bring club icon with him.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Rigg has agreed to join Birmingham City in will begin work in a recruitment role in January, sources have told Football Insider. He will initially work as part of the academy set-up but it will be part of a phased overhaul at St Andrew’s, which will see him take a hands-on role in identifying …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533776,"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":[5618,7,4,612],"tags":[1497],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533774"}],"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=533774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533822,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533774\/revisions\/533822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}