Adin Osmanbasic fits perfectly into Plymouth Argyle's backroom staff, according to head coach Miron Muslic, who has brought in the 30-year-old American as his No 2.

Osmanbasic joined up with Muslic for the first time as his assistant head coach at Belgian Pro League side Cercle Brugge last October and has now followed him to Home Park, starting work this week.

He completes a backroom staff which also includes another arrival from Cercle Brugge, head of athletic performance Eddie Lattimore, as well as existing coaches Kevin Nancekivell and Daryl Flahavan. Lattimore will also work as a first team coach.

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Muslic said: "Adin and Eddie are a big benefit for all of us. Just very good coaches, and very connected and very tight to the lads. This week is the first time we have been complete as a staff together, with Nance and with Flavs, to change patterns, to change behaviours, to adapt already schedules.

"This are small steps but in the end it's providing the players the best possible support so they can perform on matchdays. We are complete and I'm very happy about that."

Osmanbasic started out in football as an analyst at Columbus Crew and Atlanta United before joining a third MLS side, Houston Dynamo, in 2021 as their under-17s head coach. He became first team assistant coach in January 2023 and later that year Houston won the US Open Cup, beating Inter Miami in the final, and reached the Western Conference final before losing 2-0 to LAFC.

Muslic said: "He texted me one-and-a-half years ago. He did a lot of analysing online. He's a famous coach for coaches. I think he even has around 30,000 followers on Twitter (X), not fans, actually coaches and colleagues.

"He's tactically very good and he completes this staff perfectly. I love to work with good coaches, with strong personalities and above all with coaches who specialise in things, and in some things better than I am because I cannot be good or very good or excellent in all kinds of phases, it's just impossible.

"That's why I want to have people around me with expertise, with strength, with knowledge. Adin just fits perfectly into this. He will help us in all phases of the game.

"Adin is very good theoretically and can prepare a lot of things, but he can also implement it on the pitch, in combination with Eddie and Nance. We also like each other, we like to work with each other and that's always a good start. We have a very good staff and the lads will take benefit out of it."

Muslic began his tenure at Argyle with four games in 12 days so he has been grateful to have the full week since Sunderland to prepare for the Championship match against West Bromwich Albion at Home Park tomorrow (12.30pm) without a midweek match.

He said: "We have the possibility to work on our style of play, to get to know each other, to understand how we want to progress in the future, how we want to play, how we want to develop. That week was just purely needed.

"We used every single day on the pitch, we used every single day also in the video analysis suite. We started also with a new schedule for the players in terms of arriving, breakfast, pre-activation meetings, after prep.

"So small steps but important steps to make us competitive. I'm very happy with the week so far. I'm very pleased with the performance of the lads. The players are pushing and I like this a lot."

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