Hull City’s head of recruitment Lee Darnbrough is expected to sign with Stoke City after leaving the Tigers. The 46-year-old, who moved from Norwich to City in 2017, is reportedly going to Stoke, a Championship opponent.
At the MKM Stadium, he has collaborated with a variety of coaches, including Liam Rosenior, Grant McCann, Nigel Adkins, Leonid Slutsky, and Shota Arvaladze. However, he is about to go for the Potters.
He has previously been connected to Premier League positions, such as those with Wolves in 2020 and Hearts in the Scottish Premiership, but he chose to remain with Hull in both cases.
Darnborough was the driving force behind some significant transfer moves since joining the team when it was owned by Assem Allam. He stayed after Acun Ilicali took over.
Along with more current players like Fabio Carvalho, Liam Delap, and Jaden Philogene, he helped bring future stars like Harry Wilson and Fikayo Tomori.
In addition, he had to work throughout the transfer ban imposed by the club, which was challenging for a head of recruitment. After being promoted back to the Championship in 2022, he made the following statement: “We got relegated under the Covid pandemic and league finishing, with players not playing due to their contract status. The results weren’t great and we’d gone from the heights of being on the verge of being in the play-offs to being relegated, that was tough.”
“It was really satisfying to keep that group together and win the league, the club’s first league title in 55 years.” I could understand why the loan was taken out, but it came with its own set of difficulties—I couldn’t pay the loan costs, transfer fees, or wage restrictions, to name a few.
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