{"id":236828,"date":"2025-10-31T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:49:07","slug":"rangers-hero-david-weir-appointed-to-new-director-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236828\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers hero David Weir appointed to new director job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Gers hero has been appointed as sporting director of French side Strasbourg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 55-year-old left his role as technical director of Brighton in September. He also worked as pathway development manager at the Premier League club before progressing up the ranks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt is a great honour to join Racing, a historic club with a strong identity and growing ambition,\u201d said Weir. \u201cI was convinced by the project and the quality of the people already in place. I am eager to settle in Strasbourg and become fully involved in the life of Racing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI look forward to working with Liam [Rosenior] and all the teams to contribute to Racing\u2019s success this season and in the years to come.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Strasbourg are the sister club of Chelsea. It&#8217;s said that Weir will work closely with the Stamford Bridge side, with the Ligue 1 outfit bought over by BlueCo in 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mike Penders, Mamadou Sarr, and Kendry Paez are currently on loan with Strasbourg from Chelsea, while the London side sold Mathis Amougou and Ben Chilwell to them permanently during the summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Weir was spotted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/topics\/old-trafford\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Old Trafford<\/a> in recent months with Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghbali.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a statement, Strasbourg said Weir\u2019s arrival was \u201cpart of Racing\u2019s commitment to strengthening the structure of its sporting department.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gers hero has been appointed as sporting director of French side Strasbourg. The 55-year-old left his role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-236828","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\/236828","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=236828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}