FORMER England boss Steve McClaren has been due to hold talks with chairman Tony Stewart this week about the prospect of taking up a role at Rotherham United.

The Advertiser understands that a meeting between the pair was scheduled for yesterday and that any title for the 64-year-old might be above the level of manager.

That means he could possibly have an input on the future of Lee Clark who took the hot-seat for a nine-game spell last month and is waiting to hear if he will be offered the boss's job beyond the final day of a campaign that has seen them relegated to League Two.

McClaren, who has been a friend of Stewart for a number of years and has shown an interest in the past in working with the Millers, was at AESSEAL New York Stadium on April 11 watching the clash with Barnsley.

Steve McClaren is eyeing at job at Rotherham United. Picture Getty Images.

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He was once assistant boss at Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson before becoming England's head coach between 2006 and 2007.

Among the clubs he has previously managed are Middlesbrough, FC Twente Enschede, Derby County, Newcastle United and Queens Park Rangers.

The most recent position of McClaren, whose family home is believed to be in North Yorkshire, was as coach of the Jamaican national side in 2024 and 2025.

He could be eyeing an appointment like director of football in S60, although that was a role Stewart quickly did away with when it was introduced during the short-lived reign of Leam Richardson as head coach during the 2023/24 Championship relegation season.

Meanwhile, Clark is anticipating imminent news from the chairman on whether he will be staying at New York next term to lead a revival mission following the drop to the fourth tier.

He is keen to take the job and believes the verdict will come very soon after Saturday's final-day clash at Wycombe Wanderers.

“I would expect that to be getting clarified very, very quickly,” he told the Advertiser. “The club have so much work to do in lots of aspects - recruitment, information to the present squad about who would will be staying, who will be going, who will be offered new contracts.

“There's the organisation of pre-season, which has obviously started and is ongoing. People think eight weeks (the length of the off-season) is a long time. But when you're dealing with all that amount of work, that period goes very quickly. You cannot waste any time when you're getting started on rebuilding the club and getting it back to its previous successes.

“I think the club have to act quickly, and I think that they will. The conversations I'm having are that they know time is of the essence, they know there's a rebuild needed, a reset needed.

“Everyone's accepting responsibility. All of us are accepting that we have to do something quickly and give what the fans what they deserve: a team they can be proud of, a team that's going to be trying to get the club back to its old glory.”