BLACKBURN ROVERS manager Tony Mowbray recently attracted interest - and ire - when outlining his club's use of personality profiling. Here, sport psychologist Michael Caulfield explains the positives and pitfalls of using them.

DYLAN WILLIAMS and Omar Kellyman are the latest Academy stars to leave crisis-hit Derby County. Little wonder that manager Wayne Rooney is demoralised.

CRYSTAL PALACE Head Physio Ed Richmond has left the club after five-and-a-half years to join Leicester City.

DAN ASHWORTH has resigned as Technical Director at Brighton and is now expected to take up the same position with Newcastle United.

NEW manager Steve Bruce has taken three staff with him to West Brom - including his son Alex.

SIR BOBBY ROBSON said one of his few regrets was not spending more time with his family during his time as a top manager. There is still a culture of long hours and little down time at both senior and Academy level in football. Is it time for a reappraisal?

AUSTRALIAN Andrew Young has started work as Sunderland’s new Head of Performance and Medicine.

TOTTENHAM’S Technical Performance Director, Steve Hitchen, has left the club after five years. The 45-year-old initially worked for the club as a scout from 2005 to 2010 before returning in February 2017 as Chief Scout.

CRYSTAL PALACE have become the first club in the country to offer a three-year aftercare programme to help scholars to cope with the “trauma” of being released.

GARY DICKER has been appointed as Brighton’s Under-18s coach after retiring as an over-aged player with the U23s.

FRANK LAMPARD has taken three staff with him to Everton - assistant Joe Edwards, first-team coaches Paul Clement and Ashley Cole, and Head of Performance Chris Jones.

ARSENAL’S Tyler Cox has been appointed as the new Director of Analytics at MLS side Seattle Sounders.