The Tigers head of recruitment is set to move to Stoke City after seven years at the MKM Stadium
Head of Recruitment at Hull City The Tigers will be losing Lee Darnbrough to Stoke City. The 46-year-old, who moved from Norwich to City in 2017, is reportedly going to Stoke, a rival team in the Championship.
While at the MKM Stadium, he collaborated with a variety of managers, including Liam Rosenior, Grant McCann, Nigel Adkins, Leonid Slutsky, and Shota Arvaladze. However, he is about to go for the Potters.
Prior to joining Hull, he was connected to positions in the Premier League, including with Wolves in 2020 and Hearts in the Scottish Premiership.
Assem Allam owned the team when Darnborough joined, but he stayed when Acun Ilicali took over and was the driving force behind multiple significant transfers.
Along with more contemporary players like Fabio Carvalho, Liam Delap, and Jaden Philogene, he contributed to the development of future stars like Harry Wilson and Fikayo Tomori.
Additionally, he had to work amid the transfer ban imposed by the club, which was challenging for a head of recruitment. “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,” he said in a 2022 speech after the team had been promoted back to the Championship.
It was an incredible high to win the league, the team’s first in 55 years, and to keep that group together. I could see 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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