Southern Counties East Premier Division Whitstable Town appoint Marcel Nimani as the club's boss while Craig Coles becomes Oystermen's head coach

Southern Counties East Premier Division outfit Whitstable have appointed their new manager.

Former Sheppey assistant Marcel Nimani has been handed the role, just over 24 hours after boss Richard Styles quit, with Craig Coles joining as head coach late on Monday night having left the Ites.

“Whitstable Town is a great community club with brilliant facilities, youth structure and ambition - all key attributes that I look for in a football club,” Nimani told the club website.

“We are looking forward to embracing the club and the challenges ahead.”

He is the club’s fifth manager in the past 13 months after Styles left on Sunday, claiming “there is no longer a united vision going forward” at the club.

On Twitter, he wrote: “Tonight, I have handed [in] my resignation at Whitstable Town FC.

“I feel now is the right time to leave after it’s become clear that there is no longer a united vision going forward between myself and other parties at the club.”

Assistant Dan Morrin and first-team coach Mark Towse departed too.

Nimani guided Sheppey to a unique quadruple last season alongside then-manager Ernie Batten, claiming the Southern Counties East Premier Division title, winning and then retaining the Kent Senior Trophy and landing the SCEFL Challenge Cup, but he opted to depart on the eve of this season.

Whitstable, 10th in the table, already 15 points behind early frontrunners Erith & Belvedere, lost 1-0 on Saturday in the Kent Senior Trophy to Stansfeld.

They play third-placed Stansfeld once again on Saturday - this time at Foxbury Avenue - in what will be Nimani’s first match at the helm.

After that, they visit K Sports next Monday night before their first match at The Belmont against leaders Erith & Belvedere on Saturday,