King's Lynn Town look for new manager as they spiral down the league

Hereford manager Paul Caddis with Mark Hughes, who has just left King's Lynn

King's Lynn Town are looking for a new manager after Mark Hughes left the club.

The boss was set to wield the axe over the coming weeks as he tried to reverse the club's tumble down the National League North table.

But he hasn't been given the chance after the club said the two parties had "parted ways".

Chairman Stephen Cleeve said: “I will always be grateful to Mark for stepping up to the plate when Tommy Widdrington walked out on the club without notice to join Aldershot.

"Mark is a tremendous person and gave his all to the job in trying circumstances and I am very sad that it has not worked out as we both wanted at King’s Lynn Town FC.  I wish him well in his future career and am sure he will bounce back very quickly".

Having been promoted to the National League at the end of the curtailed 2019-20 season, the Linnets found themselves back at step two at the end of the 2021-22 season.

After play-off heartache at the end of the last campaign, they now lie 22nd in the table - two points into the drop zone.

Now ex-manager, Mark Hughes had been wanting to get rid of some players as he tried to turn things around, reports the Eastern Daily Press.

It is understood midfielder Josh Barrett is the subject of interest from National League Aldershot Town, where he would be reunited with former Lynn boss Tommy Widdrington, who also worked with him at Bristol Rovers.

Barrett has a year remaining on his contract so Lynn will be demanding a fee for the 25-year-old.

Hughes would have had a two-week break to make his changes which he hoped would coincide with a return of some of his injured players. That will now be the job of whoever succeeds him, something the club have not yet confirmed.

A new goalscorer could be top of the newcomer's wish list: Lynn have drawn blanks in four of their last six games in all competitions.

“That's obviously a worry, so we'll be working really hard to get another forward in, in the two-week period,” Hughes said before leaving his post, as reported by the EDP.

“Even in the last week we've had boys in training with us who look really good and now it's probably time to go and get them.

“And it's also time for a conversation with a few of the boys that played today that it's probably best that they move on."

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