{"id":581057,"date":"2026-05-13T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581057\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:15:16","slug":"steve-mcclaren-ex-england-boss-considering-rotherham-united-technical-director-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581057\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McClaren: Ex-England boss considering Rotherham United technical director job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England boss Steve McClaren is considering an offer to take over as director of football at Rotherham United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McClaren has been out of the game since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c04gwqvlvqqo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigning as Jamaica coach<\/a> in November following their failure to secure automatic qualification to this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 64-year-old has extensive managerial experience but his most recent role in the English game was as assistant to Erik ten Hag at Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although Rotherham will spend next season in League Two following their second relegation in three seasons, McClaren is attracted by the opportunity to work for the ambitious club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scope of the role is wide-ranging and McClaren retains plenty of enthusiasm to get back into the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no agreement in place as yet but McClaren is seriously thinking about taking on the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England boss Steve McClaren is considering an offer to take over as director of football at Rotherham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581057","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\/581057","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=581057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}