{"id":613373,"date":"2026-04-17T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:08","slug":"ricky-martin-bristol-rovers-director-of-football-to-leave-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613373\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin: Bristol Rovers director of football to leave club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Rovers director of football Ricky Martin is to leave the club after a year in the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj9el9ylvklo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the League Two outfit last March<\/a> before starting in the position in the summer following the departure of George Friend, who himself held it for 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club are not looking to appoint a replacement for Martin, whose exit comes after manager Steve Evans signed a new two-year deal with the Gas to stay until 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans has ensured Rovers&#8217; survival in League Two for next season having turned their form around since being appointed in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers director of football Ricky Martin is to leave the club after a year in the role.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-613373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}