{"id":484905,"date":"2024-07-04T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484905"},"modified":"2024-07-04T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:03:59","slug":"newcastle-hire-ex-tottenham-signings-boss-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/newcastle-hire-ex-tottenham-signings-boss-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle hire ex-Tottenham signings boss Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have hired Paul Mitchell as their sporting director after Dan Ashworth left to join the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd1d We are delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Mitchell as our new sporting director.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Newcastle United, Paul!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUFC\/status\/1808772958535467102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul, who made his name as the Saints&#8217; head of recruitment before joining Spurs in 2014, worked for the last time in Monaco, and he left the French team in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell replaces Dan, who had been on gardening leave for 4 months after expressing his desire to leave and join Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Ashworth&#8217;s leave was due to run until next year, but at the beginning of the week, the Magpies and the Red Devils had agreed on a compensation package to allow him to join the team from Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell shared about his appointment with Newcastle: &#8220;I watched closely the recent growth and ambition of the team. This, plus the phenomenal supporters, made the decision to work here easy one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he can\u2019t wait to start and to help Newcastle grow in all areas of elite football performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have hired Paul Mitchell as their sporting director after Dan Ashworth left to join the Red Devils. \ud83e\udd1d We are delighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484906,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18576,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18577,23099,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Magpies appointed Dan Ashworth\u2019s replacement.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484907,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484905\/revisions\/484907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484905"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484905"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}