A-League championship-winning coach Nick Montgomery has reportedly agreed to phrases to take cost of Scottish Premiership membership Hibernian.
The news comes as one other A-League title-winning mentor, former Melbourne Victory boss Kevin Muscat, has been linked to the Rangers supervisor’s job occupied by Michael Beale.
However, in contrast to the Rangers gig, the Hibs job is vacant following the sacking of Lee Johnson.
Socceroos coach Graham Arnold final week revealed he turned down the possibility to interchange Johnson, with Central Coast Mariners boss Montgomery now seemingly set to take over on the Edinburgh-based membership.
The Daily Record has reported that Hibs pays the Mariners $100,000 to activate the discharge clause in Montgomery’s contract, and the previous Scotland under-21 worldwide, who defied the chances to information the unfancied Mariners to final season’s A-League title, has agreed to change into the membership’ new supervisor.
It was additionally reported that Montgomery will take his present Mariners assistant coach, Sergio Raimundo, with him to Hibs, whose squad contains Socceroos pair Martin Boyle and Jimmy Jeggo and Australian under-23 consultant and former Central Coast defender Lewis Miller.
However, a Mariners spokesman mentioned there was “nothing at the moment” when requested if Montgomery was leaving the membership.
Socceroos nice Robbie Slater mentioned transferring to Hibs could be “fantastic” for Montgomery.
“He’s done an unbelievable job at the Mariners and this is the next step for him, to coach professionally in Europe,” Slater mentioned.
While the Montgomery transfer appears all however sure to occur, Muscat is reported to be on a shortlist of contenders – who embody Jesse Marsch, Marcelo Bielsa and Ralph Hassenhuttl – to interchange Rangers supervisor Beale, who’s below mounting strain to retain his job after his facet’s 1-0 weekend house loss to Scottish champions Celtic.
A former Socceroos and Rangers defender, Muscat guided Yokohama F. Marinos to final yr’s Japanese top-flight championship.
Marinos, who have been beforehand coached by Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou, are additionally in sturdy rivalry to defend their title as they path first-placed Vissel Kobe by simply two factors regardless of back-to-back losses.
“‘Musky’ would be a perfect fit for Rangers,” Slater mentioned.
Source: www.news.com.au
