SAM GISBORNE has been promoted to Academy Manager at Bournemouth, with Joe Roach moving to the new role of Head of Player Progression.

MANCHESTER UNITED’S Under-23 coach Neil Wood has left the club after eight years to become manager of Salford City.

BRIGHTON are advertising for a new Academy Manager following the exit of John Morling after almost a decade.

BIRMINGHAM CITY have become the first club to have their Academy forcibly downgraded after losing an appeal to the Professional Game Board (PGB).

NEIL RYAN is leaving Manchester United after 19 years to join the Football Association, where he will lead one of England’s youth teams.

TOM PELL has been appointed as Charlton’s new Academy Manager, with Steve Avory becoming Academy Director.

EVERTON have today launched a “thorough and far-reaching” search for a new Academy Director and Under-23s Head Coach.

GUY BRANSTON has left his role as PDP Loans Manager at Leicester City to become an agent.

MANCHESTER UNITED have launched a ‘Friends of the Academy’ initiative that will support the “local football ecosystem” by sharing resources and knowledge with coaches, schools, junior clubs and young players across the North West.

SOUTHAMPTON have launched a “unique” Learning Lab that will embed a “research culture focused on modern ecological approaches” in both their club and Academy.

EVERTON Academy Director and Under-23s manager David Unsworth is leaving the club after nine years to pursue his “career aspirations” of becoming a first-team manager.

IPSWICH TOWN Chief Executive Mark Ashton has expressed his ‘surprise’ at Kieron Dyer’s decision to quit his role as Under-23s coach at the club.