SCOTT PARKER is the latest top player to take an Under-18s coaching job after being named in the role by former club Tottenham.

MANY players are back at their training grounds this week. The first thing they do is testing. But what exactly does it involve?

FORMER England defender Jonathan Woodgate has been appointed as Middlesbrough’s new Under-18s assistant coach.

DAVE ADAMS has been appointed First Team Coach at Middlesbrough by new Manager Garry Monk.

CHRIS NEVILLE has left his role as Head of Athletic Performance at relegated Blackburn Rovers.

BLACKBURN ROVERS are confident of retaining their status as a Category One Academy, despite being relegated to League One.

The Premier League has created a new position of Elite Performance Manager to ‘support their mission of developing more and better homegrown players’.

MANCHESTER UNITED have landed a star signing for their formidable recruitment department - Juventus chief scout Javier Ribalta.

MANCHESTER CITY Academy director Mark Allen has been named as the new Director of Football at Glasgow Rangers.

LEYTON ORIENT have appointed former player and manager Martin Ling as their new Director of Football.

A story about how Roy Keane helped his old team-mate Gary Charles challenges the public perception of the Man Utd legend.

LEE DARNBROUGH has been appointed to the newly-created role of Head of Recruitment by Hull City.