Town’s U18s coach Callum Tongue is set to leave the Blues to take up a role at Manchester United’s academy, TWTD understands.

Tongue, 29, joined the Blues as lead U18s coach in March from Manchester City having spent nine years with the Premier League champions.

Now we understand the former goalkeeper is set to take a recruitment position with United’s academy.

Tongue, who hails from Hyde in Manchester, began coaching with Oldham Athletic’s academy in 2013, then spent time with Curzon Ashton’s youth set-up, as well as Manchester Corinthians before joining City in April 2014.

In his playing days, Tongue was with Bradford City’s youth team, then Barrow in the National League.

He had a trial with the Town academy in pre-season ahead of the 2012/13 season, featuring in a friendly at Kirkley and Pakefield.

Town’s U18s are due to be in action away at Luton Town in the PDL Cup on Saturday morning, however, the weather may well have an impact on that fixture.

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Monkey_Blue added 12:51 - Oct 20 Not ideal for continuity , him having only arrived in March, but I suppose bigger club, assume more money and able to move back home, you can’t blame him.
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runaround added 13:46 - Oct 20 Guess he will be trying to lick United into shape
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MK1 added 14:07 - Oct 20 A bit of a loss this one. I am sure KM has plenty of contact at that level, so recruiting the new person should be quite easy, also given our current position.
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 16:44 - Oct 20 Strange that he's taken a downward step in his career to a club that's in somewhat of a crisis, but there you go.....
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ArnieM added 16:47 - Oct 20 I quite like the swap . They get him, we get McKenna..
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atty added 16:50 - Oct 20 Thanks for your rather brief service. I think
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