Overview

• Page returns to coaching after guiding Wales to the last 16 at Euro 2020 and securing their first World Cup berth in 64 years.
• Barry Lewtas ends a five-year spell overseeing the Under-21s to make way for Page’s appointment.
• Academy director Alex Inglethorpe cited Page’s strength in transitioning pathway players to senior football as a key benefit.
• The club has also seen departures of U18 coach Marc Bridge-Wilkinson and assistant John Heitinga, with Giovanni van Bronckhorst under consideration for another role.
• Page adds experience from his managerial spells at Port Vale and Northampton Town and a playing career at clubs including Watford, Sheffield United and Coventry City.