Pride Park
All change... a new addition has been made to the Pride Park backroom staff.
Derby County have made an addition to their backroom staff by landing Ryan DeFreitas as the club's new first-team opposition analyst.
DeFretias has left his role as first-team performance analyst at Manchester City to make the move to Pride Park.
He spent three years at the Etihad but has now returned to the East Midlands, where he spent nine years at Leicester City before his move to join Pep Guardiola's staff.
He was appointed as the lead academy performance analyst at the King Power and is now tasked with helping's ambition for Championship success.
The role will include studying the opposition and providing detailed insight to the coaching staff to aid their preparation for fixtures.
Using video analysis, it involves examining tactics, key players, strengths, weaknesses, and set-piece routines.
DeFreitas’s exit from City comes as part of a number of changes that have taken place behind the scenes at the Premier League side over the summer.
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Jürgen Klopp's former right-hand man at Liverpool, Pep Lijnders, was a surprising appointment by Guardiola, who made him his number two.
James French has also made the move from Liverpool to become their set-piece coach.
Assistants Juanma Lillo and Carlos Vicens and first team coach Inigo Dominguez have left the club.
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