At Birmingham City, Gary Rowett has reconnected with his “incredible” right hand man.

Gary Rowett has brought a man he regards as “absolutely incredible” in his line of work back to Birmingham City as he helps them through these last eight games of another difficult Championship season. Rowett first worked with Joe Carnall during his first stint as Blues’ manager back in late 2014. Carnall, who left the team in his second spell as head of performance analysis before going on quick stints with Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest, and then returned to St Andrew’s shortly before Rowett was appointed, had taken up his old role. He outstayed Rowett, who was fired in December 2016, but left Blues to reunite with him at Derby County in early 2016.

2017.

In 2019, Carnall moved on from Rowett to Stoke City and then Millwall. He served as the first team’s technical coach until the summer of 2022, at which point he made the decision to resign in light of his young family and the demanding commute from the Midlands to the city. Perhaps grudgingly, given their collaborative rapport, Rowett did authorize Carnall’s departure.

The strange thing about football is that last year, Craig Gardner welcomed Carnall and Frank McParland back to the team as the Blues looked to improve their recruiting department in an effort to expand their reach. Carnall returned to the team in February of last year, this time as head scout. Rowett departed Millwall through a mutual

permission earlier in the season, has now also retraced his familiar route back to the Blues in order to fill Tony Mowbray’s void.

It’s a reunion between the manager and a man he has spoken highly of in the past, and it’s obvious that Blues should value Rowett’s work, even though his time back at the club will be limited and may not necessarily overlap with Carnall’s as he gets ready for the summer transfer window.

After Carnall left Millwall last year, Rowett told the South London Press, “He is someone I’ve trusted for a long, long time.” “We’ve shared an apartment together for the past three years. Charlie was his little boy.

a few years ago, and since he is traveling far from a small family, I immediately thought, “This could be tough now,” as soon as he and Soph had him. Although he has handled it incredibly well, I knew eventually he would want to be back home.

I will truly miss him as a friend and as a staff member since he is very good at what he does. We’ve gotten along so well and for so long because of this. When I ask him to accomplish something, it turns out precisely way I had envisioned it would.

After leaving Stoke, I lived with Joe for three months while he was unemployed, and we worked on the ideas of how we

were going to engage in any kind of play, even a back five? In that case, how would that appear? How are the training sessions structured? Working on these items together has taken up a lot of our time. As my running buddy, he forced me to keep up with him, which helped me run faster. You will now see an elderly, dejected manager navigating the streets by himself.

Although he has a background in analysis, he has kind of built on it to include a lot of the tactical work and club-developed notions. There are situations when you have to appreciate people’s decision to act for personal reasons and understand that they must. I will continue to keep in constant contact. I believe