ThewolfNewcastle United are looking for a new Under-21 boss after the departure of long serving coach Ben Dawson.
The 43-year-old is heading for Leicester City to take up a new role, with Newcastle’s Academy set for a shake up with sporting director Paul Mitchell set to take a closer look at the club’s youth set-up. The Magpies have already said goodbye to Under-18 coach Graeme Carrick after he left to join Middlesbrough.
Dawson was a close colleague of Academy manager Steve Harper after the pair worked together with the reserve team between 2018 and 2019. Harper left the club briefly in 2019 before returning to work as part of Steve Bruce’s backroom set-up
He joined Newcastle originally in 2009 and stayed on for three years before his stint at the FA. He then took on a role as Peter Beardsley’s number 2 in 2014 and has served various jobs at the club since.
But Dawson stayed on and ended up being caretaker manager later that year, guiding Newcastle in games against Wolverhampton Wanderers and then West Ham, a game the Magpies won 1-0 in Shanghai, in the Premier League Asia Cup in China.
Dawson will now link up with Steve Cooper’s first-team at Leicester after being offered a new opportunity. Chronicle Live understands Dawson, a former FA coach like Cooper, wanted a new challenge with senior players.
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