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Scouting Policy

For some reason, unless I have missed something, the players that we eventually attract into the club, seem to be from mainland Europe whereas other clubs, apparently smaller in stature compared to ourselves, appear to spread the net further and find endless amounts of gems within the African continent, for not a great deal of money or at least that's what it seems. We seem to play these type of teams regularly who have pacy players that give us real issues.

Maybe I'm just over thinking things!

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6 Comments

Daniel2

May 05

It not that we do not scout but rather a long rebuild of our scouting networks. If you remember back under the ownership of the Mr "Purple mad" Cellino we culled the complete department. Then under the Mr "to much faith in Orta" Radrizzani who was only allowed to believe man our department vanished almost entirely.

Under our current owner we are starting to rebuild scouting with Scotland being the starting point.

We have brought in Nick Hammond who was exceptional at finding young united Kingdom talents for celtic. We brought in Gretar Steinsson which will allow Criag Dean focus on Academy recruitment. Jordan Miles for senior squad.

We are building a proper recruitment and scouting department.

We brought in a new Academy Manager.

We also brought in 3 new scouts who have only been at the club 9 months.

All up that is 6 people to fix a department that was formerly under Orta iron fist.

1972Glory

May 05

Replying to

Hi Daniel, and this sort of gets to the point I was trying to make about the scouting issues. I take on board all the crap from past lunatics, however if we are going to start a serious player scouting regime, why in Scotland?, this is only going to give us the same type of player that we already have, small, nimble, unable to stand up to a physical challenge. In my opinion we need to change the whole dynamics of the team and make us bigger and definately more physical, which we are not going to accomplish very well isolating our search in Europe. The type of Joe Jordan player is very rare, unfortunately.

Daniel2

May 05

Replying to

Why Scotland, because that is where Hammond and Miles were most recently. Also easier to get them visas. Keep in mind that it cost a fair amount for a scout on foreign shores to be put on retainer.

Last I heard was my friend got 15k a year and a further 1k for every u18 player that sign pro deals with that club. Further add ons based on milestone first team appearances and that back in the early 2000's. Keep in mind that was just to scout a specific region or country.

Not all club pay that but that was going wage then for a epl club back then.

Stevethemouse

May 04

It was the play like a red bull team philosophy that imo started this trend

Soopaleeds

May 05

Replying to

I think there's a lot of truth in this - fitness to outrun was the mantra. It's had to turn a philosophy 180 degrees.

TC10

May 04

Great point 1969 and never thought of that....

I think Arsenal first started buying your stereotypical big muscley African player and moulded them.... a lot of the youth academys buy up loads hoping 1,maybe 2 come through.

All our players look great on paper but they are just missing something or just too similar....

Look at Billing of Bournemouth. Very limited on the ball but an absolute handful attacking and defending....

Even English players like Baldy Smallbone and Flynn Downes beat us up today and were all over the pitch.... we'd never think about getting them