I think this one is plausible and looks like a Gary Brazil recommendation.
Before his two years at Swansea, he was manager of the Academy at Liverpool where he worked with Warren Joyce, our new U18s manager.
He had a very decent 45% win percentage during his two years at Swansea, and is supposedly excellent at developing youngsters.
Whoever the next appointment is will go a long way to indicating who exactly is making the decisions