BARNSLEY are unlikely to add a new assistant manager to Daniel Stendel’s backroom staff in the near future, the Chronicle understands.
The Reds considered adding another assistant when they brought back the German as head coach last month.
It is not impossible that they will still make alterations to the coaching set-up but the current line-up is expected to lead the squad in pre-season.
The Reds are understood to be bringing in an analyst who Stendel knows from earlier in his career but they have not been officially confirmed.
First team coach Tom Harban, who is from Barnsley, came through the Reds’ academy but never played a first team game and, after a spell a youth worker, has been coaching at Oakwell for 14 years.
The 40-year-old coached at various levels in the academy including the under 18s and under 21s but was promoted to assistant first team coach last summer by Conor Hourihane who has now been replaced by Stendel.
Harban and Stendel know each other from the German’s first spell at the club in 2018 and 2019.
Scott Flinders remains as goalkeeper coach – having also been brought back last summer by Hourihane almost 20 years after leaving the club as a player.
Stendel, in his first spell, promoted Barnsley man Dale Tonge to the first team coaching set-up then took him to next club Hearts.
Tonge this week joined Huddersfield Town as a coach.
The Reds have usually had either two assistant coaches or one and a first team coach but currently have just Stendel and Harban.
Last season’s head coach Hourihane and assistant Richard Keogh were confirmed by League One Leicester City and League Two Walsall respectively as number twos this week.
Meanwhile, centre-back Eoghan O’Connell joined Stockport County this week having turned down a new deal offered by Barnsley.
The Irishman, 31, played 26 games for the Reds after joining as a free agent in the January transfer window.
After David McGoldrick – last season’s top-scorer – also rejected a new deal, neither senior players offered a contract this summer have taken it.
