The Newcastle Jets have parted ways with the A-League’s youngest head coach Scott Miller, effective immediately.
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“We acknowledge that the timing of this decision is far from ideal given the close proximity of next Hyundai A-League season”, McKinna said.
If he is appointed to replace Miller, it will be his first A-League head-coaching position after holding assistant roles with Melbourne City, Wellington, Adelaide and Brisbane.
Jets CEO Lawrie McKinna stated since Miller’s sacking, that the search for a coach will be to ensure that an Australian lands the role.
LUCIANO Trani has wasted no time in making an impact since arriving in Newcastle three months ago.
Speaking to Fox Sports News earlier on Thursday, McKinna declared he hopes to appoint a new head coach within the next 10 days, while he also dismissed suggestions Miller was sacked because he wouldn’t sign a Chinese player.
FFA announced in June this year it had sold the club to the Ledman Group based in Shenzen in China.
The Jets ended Miller’s tenure on Wednesday – as first reported by Goal Australia – and McKinna admitted that the club owners’ decision “came out of the blue”.
In a freakish sequence of events, the pair apparently fell out during the Jets’ tour of China, yet if Miller assumed he held the upper hand in their power struggle, he was sadly mistaken.
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But the club’s ownership and senior management say they made a decision to sack him on Wednesday morning “based on differences related to football matters”.
