Sheffield Wednesday are expected to add to their backroom team in the coming week.

Sheffield Wednesday boss Henrik Pedersen has confirmed the long-signposted exit of Craig Mudd back to the Manchester City youth ranks - and revealed his hope that a new face will be unveiled as a replacement in the coming days.

South Yorkshire boy Mudd arrived from City to join the Dane’s coaching staff last year and was understood to be an influential figure in their backroom team. He has shifted back into the Etihad Campus after the departure of Ben Wilkinson - son of Owls legend Howard - to Derby County. City made an approach to Wednesday early last month and his departure has been sealed for some time.

Mudd didn’t make Wednesday’s pre-season trip to Hungary and Austria; with Pete Shuttleworth, Andy Holdsworth and Giles Coke continuing alongside Pedersen. It was made clear at that point that Mudd would be replaced - with the Owls boss telling media that he was speaking to potential new faces while taking a closer look at how the coaching team operated in Mudd’s absence.

Speaking on the process of picking up that coach, Pedersen said: “I think it's exactly like the players. We would like to find all the players tomorrow or today, but it doesn't help if we don't take the right ones. And I needed time. And I always need more conversations with a coach.

“Because I need to be sure that the person behind this football coach is the right person. That he can give us what we don't have. He can give us something that I don't have in the other assistant - and that he can fit in with the other assistants. And then of course that he has some quality; that can make us more effective to create results in the league. So I would love to have it earlier. But first I needed to know what my team was like without Muddy.”

There are things to sort as always, but The Star expects a new face to be brought in within the next week or so, ahead of the League One season opener against Bradford City if at all possible. Explaining that he felt he had found his man, the Dane continued: “I have had a lot of conversations with coaches. And the other day I had a new conversation. And I think here we find the right profile. And the right personality, for what we are searching for. We search a strong personality, who can do something special. For our needs to be effective. And I hope we can finalise that soon.”