Pep Guardiola has worked with multiple coaches and analysts during his time as Manchester City’s manager.
Since taking charge at the Etihad Stadium back in 2016, the Spaniard has overlooked 483 games across all competitions.
In those games, City have won 357, drawn 60 and lost 66 along the way, resulting in them lifting a vast number of domestic and European trophies.
In addition to using 90 players during his time at City, Guardiola has also worked with a wide range of coaches and analysis experts, some of whom have moved around different levels of the club or moved away altogether to pursue other professional avenues.
Now – however – some big news has emerged regarding one figure who worked behind the scenes at the Manchester club up until fairly recently, who is already on the lookout for a new role.
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Jack Wilson sacked by Wolves following Man City exit
According to a recent report from BBC Sport, Wolves have sacked their set-piece coach, Jack Wilson, despite him only joining the club from City during the summer in July.
The report also added that Wilson was Wolves’ first dedicated set-piece specialist, but “it has been accepted the move has not worked out” and that the former City coach “struggled to make the impact the club wanted.”
Who is Jack Wilson?
After taking positions at numerous clubs in Scotland, the 28-year-old spent over four years as part of the Northern Ireland national team’s coaching set-up.
Following that, Wilson spent two years at Brentford before joining City in November 2022 as their set-piece coach alongside Carlos Vicens, who is one of Guardiola’s assistant coaches.
Back in January, after seeing his side score a goal from a clever free-kick routine in their 3-1 win over Burnley, Guardiola said this to the official Man City website on Wilson’s role.
He said: “Today in modern football, set-pieces are really important. We won in the FA Cup at Spurs with a corner and today we prepared with Carlos and Jack.
“I’m not involved with anything in set-pieces because I’m not good or the other ones are better. I don’t have time I would say, and we are preparing things in the corners like every team does.
“Especially we prepared this free-kick and it worked. Kevin [De Bruyne] had to make a perfect pass, and Julian had to make the movement and it was a good finish from Alvarez.
“Someone had to come up with the idea, and we are going to do this so all credit to Carlos and Jack.”
Looking back to this season, Wolves have conceded the joint-highest number of goals from set-pieces in the Premier League as well as scoring the joint-second-lowest in the division (10).
This makes it easy to see why the Midlands club have decided to make a change and bring an end to Wilson’s time at Molineux as part of Gary O’Neil’s coaching and analysis staff.
