Wisey The Director Of Football At Newcastle

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Leeds have confirmed Dennis Wise is set to leave the club to join Newcastle.

Reports on Monday suggested Newcastle had targeted a move for Wise to be director of football at St James' Park.

New Magpies boss Kevin Keegan is keen to have Wise in his new-look backroom team having worked with the player during his time as coach of England.

The news will come as a massive shock to Leeds fans as they battle to win promotion from League One and they will now begin their search for a new manager.

Leeds confirmed that Wise will make the move to Tyneside on Tuesday after they agreed a compensation package for the former Millwall player/manager.

Compensation

"We have agreed a compensation package with Newcastle United for the services of our manager Dennis Wise and he will part company with the club on Tuesday January 29 after completing the preparations for our game at Southend United that evening," read a club statement.

"Newcastle had approached us for permission to speak with Dennis on Friday and since then things have happened very quickly.

"We will always be grateful to Dennis for the way he has turned things around at the club on the playing side and he goes with our best wishes for the future.

"We are not prepared to comment on the inevitable speculation that will now follow about who will replace Dennis. That is not the way we do our business at this club."

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