Yahoo News Revealed: Senior figure quits Wolves and rejoins Birmingham City
Mike Scott, the head of coaching at Wolverhampton Wanderers, is to leave Molineux and rejoin Birmingham City in a similar role, BirminghamLive understands. Scott, who is well travelled in the Midlands and has accrued plenty of experience through spells at West Brom, Walsall, Aston Villa and Derby County, actually began at Blues between 1999 and 2004 when working in the academy.
Scott has experience of working in a first-team environment from his time under Jimmy Mullen at Walsall in 2008/09, and he then went on to Albion where there was a notable success in his career's body of work; he managed the under 18s over the course of an extended 11-year stay at The Hawthorns.
Scott guided Albion's youngsters to the FA Youth Cup semi-final stages in 2019, against a Manchester City side which contained the likes of Eric Garcia, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jeremie Frimpong, Tommy Doyle and Felix Nmecha. During his time with the Baggies, Scott helped with the development of players like Morgan Rogers, Nathan Ferguson, Tom Fellows, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Saido Berahino, Dara O'Shea, Tyler Roberts and Romaine Sawyers, among others.
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He then moved onto Derby County in the summer of 2019 in a head of coaching role. At Pride Park he worked alongside the club's academy director and then first-team manager Phillip Cocu in order to help promising youngsters make the transition from academy to the first-team environment. Scott remained there for a little over a year, including through lockdown after the Covid outbreak, and returned to the West Midlands - and to Villa.
On the other side of the city, Scott was the lead youth development coach, but he returned to the head of coaching role when he took up the job at Wolves in October 2021. He's been with Wanderers since, but it's understood he's left Compton this summer and is set to return to Blues 20 years after first working at the club to become the head of coaching at Wast Hills.
Blues have undergone an academy transformation since the arrival of Knighthead; they have appointed Mike Rigg as the club's new academy technical director to work alongside Liam Daish and Louisa Collis in their respective academy manager roles.
Scott has recently been awarded his UEFA Pro License, along with ex Premier League stars Yaya Toure and Leighton Baines and current Lincoln City manager Michael Skubala among others. It's the highest qualification you can achieve in football coaching and enables you to manage in the top tier of any European country.
