It has now been revealed that Newcastle United have appointed Yann Le Meur
The specialist Training Ground Guru site reporting that has has been appointed as Assistant Performance Director.
The appointment sees Yann Le Meur reunited with United’s Performance Director James Bunce (pictured above), who he worked with at AS Monaco.
Yann Le Meur worked from 2016 to 2019 at AS Monaco as the club’s Head of Sport Science.
Then he returned to the Ligue 1 club in September 2023 as Director of Performance, filling the vacancy left by James Bunce.
The Training Ground Guru site states: ‘Before that, Le Meur was with the French Institute of Expertise and Performance as a Sport Scientist in the research department for five-and-a-half years. He worked with French teams going to the 2016 Rio Olympics, while he was also a consultant for non-Games football and rugby teams.’
The report states that Yann Le Meur has already started in his job with Newcastle United.
The new appointment declaring that at Newcastle United there is: “A remarkable depth of expertise across every discipline and, above all, colleagues who collaborate and work in a healthy environment where everyone can bring their own touch…The opportunity to work in this setting and alongside James Bunce, with whom I so much enjoyed working in the past, is what convinced me to take the step.”