Conor Hourihane 'lined up' for role as Russell Martin's assistant at Leicester City after Barnsley FC exit
Conor Hourihane 'lined up' for role with Barnsley's League One rivals Leicester City after Reds exit
Conor Hourihane is reportedly being lined up for a role at Leicester City after leaving his post as Barnsley head coach.
The 35-year-old recently completed his first full season in management, overseeing a 15th-placed League One finish for Barnsley in challenging circumstances.
He had to contend with the loss of talismanic forward Davis Keillor-Dunn to Wrexham in January and could not prevent Barnsley’s season petering out.
A mutual parting of ways was announced in the dying embers of the season, but Hourihane saw out the campaign in the dugout before moving on. He was recently linked with the managerial vacancy at Salford City in League Two, but it appears another season coaching in League One could be on the cards.
Conor Hourihane linked with Leicester City
According to Football Insider’s Pete O’Rourke, Hourihane is being lined up to be Russell Martin’s assistant at Leicester.
The Foxes were relegated from the Championship last term and recently tasked Martin with overseeing their rebuild.
Posting on X, O’Rourke said: “Understand former Barnsley boss Conor Hourihane is being lined up to join Leicester as assistant to new manager Russell Martin.”
New era at Leicester City
For Hourihane, the role would present an opportunity for him to continue developing as a coach without the pressure of being the main man. He would also be going into a club that will be fancied for an assault on the League One title.
After taking the reins, Martin told the Leicester website: “My job is to bring that energy myself, to convince the players to bring that energy and the staff around everyone else.
“It's not about me, it's not about one person, it's not about anything else and us being together and just aiming and heading in the right direction, in the same direction, and giving everything.
“The only thing I'm ever going to ask from the players and the staff here, and of myself, is to be all in and give everything I possibly can, and for them to do the same when on the training pitch, when on the pitch at the King Power, when we are having to fight and compete for the supporters, for the football club, that we give everything, all the time. If we do that, we have a real chance of achieving something.”