LATEST : New backroom staff and Clarity offered on Conor Hourihane role after Pelachs Stoke City reshuffle

LATEST : New backroom staff and Clarity offered on Conor Hourihane role after Pelachs Stoke City reshuffle

Dean Whitehead, Paul Clements, and Harrison Glew have been announced by new Stoke City head coach Narcis Pelach

as his backroom staff members. Pelach will be joining the Championship team.

After serving as Norwich City’s first-team coach for sixteen months, the 36-year-old Catalan signed a three-year

contract to join the Potters. When the news was announced, Stoke Sporting Director Jon Walters called him “one of the

most regarded and sought-after coaches around.”

His helpers at Bet365 will be:

• Dean Whitehead (Assistant): Played for Stoke from 2009 to 2013. Knows Pelach from their time together at Huddersfield Town, where Whitehead coached the Under-17s win 2018/19. Joins from Barnsley, where he was First Team Coach.
• Paul Clements (Goalkeeper Coach): Also worked at Huddersfield, from 2015 to 2024, latterly as Head of Goalkeeping. Followed Pelach to Norwich City in July.
• Harrison Glew (Analyst): Also worked with Pelach at Huddersfield and Norwich. Was a Performance Analyst for the Terriers from 2020 to 2023 and at Norwich from October 2023.

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“It came as a huge shock to me and my family to be told I had lost my job at Stoke City,” he stated in a statement.

It is really sad that the coaching staff and I, after nine months of relentless labor, will not be continuing with the club.

“Last season, we wanted to maintain the club’s Championship status. We accomplished our goals, and the way

we concluded the season gave me a lot of hope that we could meet the ones we set out to do this season.

“We started this season with four wins out of the first seven games, and we have won seven of our last ten competitive games.

After a positive beginning, in my perspective, we were only going to to get better and I believe the squad assembled for this season will go on to do really well.”

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