Gary Peters comes to Edgar Street as Director of Football

Former Shrewsbury Town manager Gary Peters have been appointed Director of Football at Hereford United.

Here's the statement in full as printed on the OS:

Gary Peters, the man who's enjoyed a career of 10 promotions as a player, manager and coach making his club's millions of pounds of profits in the transfer market on the way is Hereford United's new Director of Football.

From today Peters will take control of football from board room to boot room and will be working alongside manager Jamie Pitman as a mentor to take the Bulls into the future.

Peters has been in the game for 38 years, as a player with Reading,Fulham and Wimbledon and in management and coaching at Cambridge United,Preston North End, Shrewsbury Town and Exeter City.

"This is an exciting new challenge for me .Hereford is a great little club with a great past and to be given the chance to shape it's future is something very special," said Peters.

Peters, who's 57, has specialised in building up teams, bringing on young players and mentoring managers such as David Moyes whose career he helped launch at Preston North End in the nineties.

"One of my main tasks here is to help Jamie Pitman.I'll only be successful if Jamie and his team are successful but we've got a tough task ahead which is going to need lots of work and lots of support from the fans,"he added.

Manager Jamie Pitman who successfully steered United clear of relegation last season has welcomed the arrival of Peters at Edgar Street.

"Gary has years and years of experience. He's been there and done it and knows the game inside out. He's just what we want. His knowledge and contacts in the game can only bring good to Hereford and I'm really looking forward to working with him," said Pitman.

Apart from giving a young David Beckham his league debut at Preston while on loan from Old Trafford, Peters' other great discovery was England goalkeeper Joe Hart and over the last couple of seasons his job has been to mentor young players in the Premiership.

Peters has shaken hands on a deal which will keep him at the club until May 2014 and Club Chairman David Keyte commented," Gary has huge experience of working with clubs at our level and his track record shows his skill of encouraging and developing young players. We need to give him and Jamie time to develop a team and a club for the future."

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