A full profile of Andy O’Boyle, Man Utd’s first deputy football director

United have undergone a significant restructure behind the scenes in recent months as the likes of Ed Woodward and Matt Judge have both left the club.

O’Boyle will be hoping to fix some of the problems at Old Trafford and we’ve brought you the lowdown on the 39-year-old.

O’Boyle, who was born in Northern Ireland, is a lifelong fan of the Red Devils and played in a Manchester United Centre of Excellence in his native country but later switched focus to coaching and sports science.

After completing his A-Levels, he went to Liverpool University and won a football scholarship to Rhode Island in the United States but left after a year. 

His first football job was at Wrexham and he started off working with the Welsh club’s youth teams before becoming a fitness coach for the first team.

O’Boyle also worked for a brief period as a coach at Manchester United’s academy, where he helped develop young players like Marcus Rashford. 

Despite being offered a permanent position at United, he chose to become Head of Sports Science at Coventry City in June 2008. 

O’Boyle joined United’s arch-rivals Liverpool in 2011 and spent four years working as the club’s Head of Fitness Elite Development. Following Jurgen Klopp’s arrival in October 2015, he became a first-team fitness coach.

During his time at Liverpool, he impressed the FA and enjoyed a 14-month spell as England Under-21s Physical Performance Coach. 

But O’Boyle left Anfield in April 2017 to become the Head of Elite Performance at the Premier League. The job involved advising clubs on player identification and recruitment, loan management, performance analysis, psychology and sports science and medicine.

He also played a key role in the Premier League’s Covid-19 response, liaising