Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy does not intend to recruit any new staff members despite two of his backroom team leaving the club this week.
First-team coach Ben Dawson and goalkeeping coach Danny Alcock parted company with City on Monday, a decision van Nistelrooy described as the “best solution”.
Dawson and Alcock had been brought to City by Steve Cooper and had been retained to help the transition between managers when van Nistelrooy was appointed at the end of November.
The Dutch boss arrived with his own goalkeeping coach in Jelle ten Rouwelaar and has since added two first-team coaches in Brian Barry-Murphy and Andy King, the latter promoted from the Under-18s.
An evaluation of how things were working behind the scenes prompted Dawson and Alcock to be axed, and they will not be replaced.
“The moment I signed with Jelle ten Rouwelaar, we started working together with the coaching staff,” van Nistelrooy said at his press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “They helped us in a great way.
“I communicated I would like to bring my own people in. It wasn’t possible from the beginning, but during the course of the past weeks, Brian Barry-Murphy and Andy King came in.
“Then you look at the roles of the coaching staff and we decided this was the best solution.
“It wasn’t always the plan (for Dawson and Alcock to leave). The plan was to start working together. From there on you evaluate and make decisions. It didn’t have anything to do with the results, it was separate from that.”
Asked directly if he expected any coaching additions, van Nistelrooy simply said: “No.”
It means City will complete the season with four coaching staff alongside van Nistelrooy: first-team coaches Barry-Murphy and King, goalkeeping coach ten Rouwelaar, and set-piece coach Andrew Hughes, the latter the only member of Cooper’s team who remains at the club.
