Director of football Neil Dewsnip is set to follow Wayne Rooney out of Plymouth Argyle as the bottom-of-the-table Championship club take action to try to turn around their fortunes on the pitch.

There has been social media speculation since yesterday afternoon that Dewsnip would be leaving Home Park, and Plymouth Live understands that is correct, but there has been no official confirmation from Argyle yet.

Rooney lost his job as the Pilgrims' head coach following a disastrous run of results, culminating in the 2-0 defeat at Oxford United on Sunday. His recently-appointed assistant Mike Phelan and first team coach Simon Ireland have also left the club, and Dewsnip is expected to be the next departure as Argyle carry out a major reshuffle off the pitch.

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The former Everton academy boss and ex-England under-18s manager first joined Argyle in August 2019 as 'a technical consultant' after the appointment of Ryan Lowe as manager and Steven Schumacher as his No 2 that summer.

Dewsnip was soon elevated to the role of director of football and played his part as the Pilgrims were promoted first under Lowe and later Schumacher as they worked their way up to the Championship.

When Schumacher left for Stoke City in December 2023, it was Dewsnip and long-serving first team coach Kevin Nancekivell who took temporary charge for four games, leading the side to three draws and a 2-1 defeat away to Southampton.

Dewsnip, as director of football, was heavily involved in the recruitment process to find a successor for Schumacher, which led to the appointment of England under-20s head coach Ian Foster. However, he only lasted 15 games before being dismissed after a poor run of results, especially at Home Park.

Again, Dewsnip and Nancekivell took interim charge of the team and guided Argyle to 10 points from the final six fixtures of the season, including a superb 1-0 victory over table-topping and eventual champions Leicester City, as well as the final day 1-0 defeat of Hull City which was enough to keep the Pilgrims up.

Argyle then brought in Rooney, who Dewsnip coached as a young player in the Everton academy, in May, and after some initial encouraging early signs this season the results fell away so dramatically that it was widely regarded a change at the top had to be made.

It was striking that when Argyle confirmed yesterday that Nancekivell would be taking temporary charge again after the departure of Rooney it was with injured club captain Joe Edwards alongside him, and not Dewsnip.

With Phelan, Ireland and most likely Dewsnip all moving on, in addition to Rooney, whoever gets appointed as the new head coach will have the scope to bring in backroom staff of his own.

Whether Argyle will look to bring in a new director of football remains to be seen but a big part of Dewsnip's role overseeing all football operations was to be involved in player signings, along with the club's recruitment team.

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