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Manchester City have seen the club’s recruitment director leave his post at the Etihad Stadium for a different role elsewhere in the Premier League after just six weeks.

The latest developments involve Mark Ridgeway, who was first reported to have decided to leave Wolves in early August, when transfer insider Fabrizio Romano first reported that the academy recruiter while That person will leave to find a new job at City.

Ridegway’s recruitment was described at the time as a “big statement” from the 2023 Treble winners in their bid to collaborate with the world’s best young talent. In fact, Ridgeway is said to have signed Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe in their previous roles at Arsenal.

However, it now appears that Mark Ridgeway’s time at Manchester City has come to an abrupt end and will soon bring an end to his new professional lifestyle with the Champions League champions, according to emerging reports in this week.

That’s according to a report from Football Insider’s Pete O’Rourke, who claims Manchester City’s head of recruitment Ridgeway has left his job at the Etihad Stadium to return to Wolverhampton Wanderers – just six weeks later when leaving the Molineux club.

It has been detailed that Mark Ridgeway has made the decision to return to his former employer “after just a few weeks”, despite “just” starting his new role at the home of the Premier champions League as responsible for screening.

Manchester City’s academy and development system has seen major changes at management and coaching level over the past 12 months, with the club confirming in the summer that Thomas Krucken had been appointed appointed as the new director of the academy.

Krucken takes over from the hugely successful Jason Wilcox as Manchester City Academy Director, after it was confirmed last season that Wilcox would leave the club at the end of the 2022/23 season to take on new role at Southampton.

Jason Wilcox is among a number of key departures from Manchester City, following Paul McLaren, the club’s national director of youth scouting – who joined Newcastle United, as well as England scouting director Stewart Thompson and Academy recruitment director Joe Shields – both of whom have joined Chelsea.