{"id":186428,"date":"2025-10-08T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186428\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:31:11","slug":"richard-montague-notts-county-reappoint-former-executive-director-as-new-director-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186428\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Montague: Notts County reappoint former executive director as new director of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notts County have reappointed Richard Montague as the League Two club&#8217;s director of football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 39-year-old returns to Meadow Lane less than a month after departing the same job at Swansea City and will replace Roberto Gagliardi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/czjv31gyk4ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who left last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montague spent nearly six years with Notts before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlk79dg8zyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joining the Swans in February <\/a>but his stay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c07vk2em5d8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was ended after seven months<\/a> following a club review of &#8220;football operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owners Chris and Alex Reedtz said Montague&#8217;s role will be &#8220;slightly broader&#8221; than his previous remit as executive director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While recruitment will once again be one of his key responsibilities, Richard will now be more involved in the day-to-day operations of the football department and will once again become a key figure of support to the coaching team,&#8221; they said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottscountyfc.co.uk\/news\/2025\/october\/08\/statement--richard-montague\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a joint statement., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montague said he was &#8220;incredibly excited and grateful to be back at Notts&#8221; and was returning with &#8220;fresh ideas, experiences and contacts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returns to the club with the Magpies 10th in League Two, one point outside the top seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notts County have reappointed Richard Montague as the League Two club&#8217;s director of football. The 39-year-old returns to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-186428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}