McAllister to be named Portsmouth No2

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Gary McAllister is being linked with a job on Portsmouth's coaching staff.

The News says the former Leeds and Liverpool midfielder has been targeted by Blues boss Paul Hart in a bid to help turn around the club's fortunes.

McAllister, who was a player at Leeds when Hart was the academy director at Elland Road, would add much-needed experience to Pompey's coaching set-up.

The Blues are still without an assistant manager after Brian Kidd left in the summer to remain in the north of England.

It is unlikely McAllister will be Pompey's new number two, though.

Rooney9 SG

haha then the CEO of portsmouth has mouth in his foot for saying its stupid and daft to sack hart lol.

whose daft enough to believe what you said

Rooney9 SG

anyway whats hart experiences? does he even have experience managing a premier league club before? being manager of championship and premier league are not the same though, dun mix the two up, even if hart has lots of experiences managing championship sides.

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Gary McAllister is set to be named new assistant manager at Portsmouth.

The former Leeds and Coventry boss has not worked since December last year and rejected the chance to become Scotland manager George Burley's right-hand man last week.

Portsmouth are rock bottom of the Barclays Premier League without a point so far this season.

McAllister, 44, ended his spell with Leeds in December 2008 having failed to win promotion back to the Championship.

Paul Hart, who took over in the summer following a spell as caretaker, has two first-team coaches - Ian Woan and Paul Groves - but no assistant manager following Brian Kidd's summer exit.