Barnet assistant coach Adrian Whitbread has left the club to take up a coaching role in America, believed to be in Major League Soccer.

The 43-year-old, who has worked with head coach Martin Allen previously at Brentford, Leicester City and MK Dons, only joined in the summer. But tonight's matchday programme for the game with Northampton Town has revealed he will move to the States.

Whitbread had, along with Allen and the rest of the backroom staff, not signed a contract with the Bees as of August 4.

He said: "I simply could not turn down this opportunity but I've got attached to the players and they have been fantastic from day one.

"It was an offer that came from left field. It's been a pleasure to work here and I wish everyone here every success in the world.

"I am sad to go, I am ambitious, but it will be tough to leave."

Allen added: "Working with him is always memorable and I'm sure he will continue to be successful.

"We go back a long way and we understand each other. I know how he works and have known him from my time at West Ham United and at Portsmouth; we have a mutal respect for each other.

"He feels that working abroad can only make you a better coach amd that while the very nature of every football club is often very much the same, coaching players with a variety of backgrounds and approaches helps to add to a coach's knowledge of the game."