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I think a lot of us on here have mentioned for a while and especially recently that our player recruitment is not up to scratch so I’m interested to discuss it in more detail especially with those more knowledgeable on the inside PL football set-up side of things.
Do any of you have an in depth understanding of how we are set-up with regards to scouting and player recruitment and how that’s changed for better or worse during Sugar & Levy’s tenures?
As far as I’m aware there is this ‘transfer committee’ which consists of :
Daniel Levy - Chairman
Jose Mouriniho - Manager
Steve Hitchen - Chief Scout
John McDermott - Player Development
Do we know how good Steve Hitchen is and how big his team of scouts are and what leagues and countries they focus on.
Areas for consideration:
How can we improve that, will it naturally improve now the stadium is up and running like we say this summer with the purse strings opening slightly more signing: Ndombele, GLC, Clarke and Sessengon or is the finance side of it not the key factor and ultimately our player recruitment set-up isn’t as good and as aligned as it could be and if so what can we do to improve that and move to the next level, is a DofF such as Luis Campos the answer?
Great to get peoples views on this.
COYS
Do any of you have an in depth understanding of how we are set-up with regards to scouting and player recruitment and how that’s changed for better or worse during Sugar & Levy’s tenures?
As far as I’m aware there is this ‘transfer committee’ which consists of :
Daniel Levy - Chairman
Jose Mouriniho - Manager
Steve Hitchen - Chief Scout
John McDermott - Player Development
Do we know how good Steve Hitchen is and how big his team of scouts are and what leagues and countries they focus on.
Areas for consideration:
- How good is our scouting set-up compared to our rivals, could it be improved?
- Would we benefit from a Director of Football, what exactly does that role entail that we are perhaps missing out from currently(do Liverpool or Man City or Leicester for example have a DofF and how do their set-ups compare to ours? I was interested when watching the Man City Amazon documentary to see their execs and pep outlining the current squad in a 4-3-3 analysing the areas they need to focus on for recruitment to fit in with the planned playing style.Who ultimately decides at Spurs how we want to shape the squad and why do we seemingly not ever have an aligned plan like the likes of Liverpool, Leicester and Man.City have? (Is this because we have to be ‘reactive’ and simply can’t obtain the quality and position of player we have identified or is it because we are not aligned internally?)
- Is our set-up perfectly up to scratch and it’s more that our lack of finances whilst building the stadium have held us back or is the blame more at Levy’s door for the manner that he negotiates and finalises transfers both ins and outs?
How can we improve that, will it naturally improve now the stadium is up and running like we say this summer with the purse strings opening slightly more signing: Ndombele, GLC, Clarke and Sessengon or is the finance side of it not the key factor and ultimately our player recruitment set-up isn’t as good and as aligned as it could be and if so what can we do to improve that and move to the next level, is a DofF such as Luis Campos the answer?
Great to get peoples views on this.
COYS
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