DAMIEN JOHNSON has been promoted from Under-23s boss to the new role of first team Technical Coach and Head of Player Development by Blackburn Rovers.

SOUTHAMPTON have made a number of changes to their coaching and performance teams ahead of Ralph Hasenhüttl’s first full season in charge of the club.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Women’s Manager Colin Bell has been appointed assistant at Huddersfield Town.

JIMMY SHAN has ended his 13-year association with West Brom to pursue his managerial ambitions.

RICHARD HARTIS has left the Football Association to become senior goalkeeping coach at Manchester United.

MANCHESTER CITY are advertising for their first dedicated data scientist to work with Pep Guardiola's team.

FREDDIE LJUNGBERG and Steve Bould have swapped jobs at Arsenal, with the Swede becoming assistant manager and the long-serving Englishman taking on the club’s U23s.

LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has paid tribute to his new-look backroom team and ‘the details that make it all’ ahead of next Saturday’s Champions League final against Tottenham in Madrid.

WHEN the Under-20 World Cup kicks off tomorrow afternoon in Poland, just one man will be carrying the flag for English coaches: New Zealand boss Des Buckingham.

ASSISTANT MANAGER Christoph Buhler has officially left Huddersfield Town and will now re-join former Terriers manager David Wagner at Bundesliga side Schalke.

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER has confirmed that Michael Carrick, Kieran McKenna and Mark Dempsey will remain on his Manchester United coaching staff next season.

ASSISTANT manager Paul Trollope and first team coach Paul Nevin have been sacked along with Chris Hughton at Brighton.