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Manchester United have reportedly recognized their subsequent academy director, who will succeed Nick Cox.
Cox’s departure confirmed
In June, United introduced that Cox could be leaving after 9 years of service, throughout which he reworked the membership’s well-known academy.
Cox arrived at United in 2016 from Sheffield United and was put in as head of academy in 2019.
Whereas within the position, 35 children made their first-team debuts for United, strengthening the youth system’s repute as top-of-the-line on the planet.
The likes of Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho, Anthony Elanga and lots of extra all broke by means of beneath Cox.
United confirmed that Cox could be taking over the position of technical director at Everton. Now, based on the Day by day Mail, a substitute for the 47-year-old has been secured.
United land good Cox substitute
The newspaper reveals that Stephen Torpey is in line to develop into the subsequent head of United’s academy after being hand-picked by director of soccer Jason Wilcox.
The Mail add, “Torpey has been academy director at Brentford since January 2024 and can take the identical job title at United.”
“He’s extremely rated following his work with Manchester Metropolis, the place he helped to develop younger stars equivalent to Cole Palmer, James McAtee and Rico Lewis.”
Wilcox and Torpey know one another properly from their time collectively on the Etihad Stadium. It’s understood that Torpey is because of be “introduced imminently.”
Since he turned co-owner and assumed operational management of United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been on a mission to make sure the Crimson Devils’ soccer construction has the best-in-class personnel, and Torpey is considered somebody who falls into this class.
Brentford have been eager to maintain maintain of him, however the attraction of a transfer to United appears to have been decisive.
Torpey is described as an “outside-the-box thinker” and is credited with taking part in a serious position in Metropolis’s extremely profitable data-led strategy.
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