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McArchibald

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The lack of a long term vision, and plans that translate this into a thriving youth academy and a considered first team transfer policy, is exactly what we need to address.
Levy has let the footballing side of the club slide in the past few years, foolishly not bringing in any help in this department while he was consumed with the tangles of his property development schemes. That proved to be the undoing of our best manager in the last 40 years.
We are now in a situation where we have a superb stadium but a squad that needs major repairs, a suspect scouting team and a youth setup that has just lost its leading light in John McDermott.

The to-do list for a DoF at our club is long, the challenges manifold. Let's hope we can appoint Luis Campos, one of the best brains in the business, to start sorting out these issues...
 
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spursfan77

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The more I think about it, the way the news has trickled our about this sounds like how we’d operate. Get Campos to resign from Lille and then appoint him rather than going directly through Lille and have to give them compensation.

If there is some reluctance on Levy’s part I can kind of understand it if there’s no transfer money to play with. What’s the point of getting Campos in if there’s no funds?

Unless of course there’s more to him than just being some kind of super scout.
 

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The more I think about it, the way the news has trickled our about this sounds like how we’d operate. Get Campos to resign from Lille and then appoint him rather than going directly through Lille and have to give them compensation.

He isn't even officially employed as Lille so I think it's not that easy as pay compensation and that's it.
 

tobi

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Stopped at Sky Sports being in Tier 1.

They are 'Tier 1', it's just the way they try and turn everything into a drama that annoys many. It's definitely a company decision to operate that way.

ESPN are the same except they have Woj and Schefter, when they talk everyone listens.
 

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If there is some reluctance on Levy’s part I can kind of understand it if there’s no transfer money to play with. What’s the point of getting Campos in if there’s no funds?

Unless of course there’s more to him than just being some kind of super scout.

I think you are missing the point of an appointment like this. When there are no funds for big transfers that is precisely when you need someone like Campos. Someone who can find the next Falcao or M'bappe for peanuts, and put a conveyor belt of talent in place for the first team, avoiding the need to spend £50-60M on players.

I hope we get Campos and that he can also bring Omishen with him (although he would cost significant money now).
 

spids

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They are 'Tier 1', it's just the way they try and turn everything into a drama that annoys many. It's definitely a company decision to operate that way.

ESPN are the same except they have Woj and Schefter, when they talk everyone listens.

Sky Sports (and ESPN) are a TV company who need to fill 24 hour rolling news coverage by giving air time to every rumour from all of the tier 1 - 3 sources. So they are at best a Tier 3 themselves based on lowest common denominator. Unless you separate out them covering stories (rumours) from other sources as not them claiming it will happen, and focus purely on the 'Sky Sports understands ...' stories.
 

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They are 'Tier 1', it's just the way they try and turn everything into a drama that annoys many. It's definitely a company decision to operate that way.

ESPN are the same except they have Woj and Schefter, when they talk everyone listens.


Not sure about Sky being reliable for transfer news etc. Think back in the early days of SSN they might have been. But now days they are no better than a tabloid news paper. It seems to be the old adage with them when it comes to transfer rumours/deals throw enough shit out there and something will stick! Admittedly they have to fill the air with some form of content being that they are a 24 hour channel.
 

tobi

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Sky Sports (and ESPN) are a TV company who need to fill 24 hour rolling news coverage by giving air time to every rumour from all of the tier 1 - 3 sources. So they are at best a Tier 3 themselves based on lowest common denominator. Unless you separate out them covering stories (rumours) from other sources as not them claiming it will happen, and focus purely on the 'Sky Sports understands ...' stories.

Not sure about Sky being reliable for transfer news etc. Think back in the early days of SSN they might have been. But now days they are no better than a tabloid news paper. It seems to be the old adage with them when it comes to transfer rumours/deals throw enough shit out there and something will stick! Admittedly they have to fill the air with some form of content being that they are a 24 hour channel.

Given their position I have no doubt they have great contacts/sources etc but as you both allude to, they love to stretch things out.

If people read between the lines, it's easy to recognise when a source has just sent out a mass text to a bunch of outlets but because they're Sky Sports they'll embellish it in such a way that attempts to make them look like the only trustworthy outlet.

One good thing about how things are generally done in the US is that they will name the journalist that broke the news (David Aldridge reports that...). Sky Sports will go out of their way to not name the source, despite it being blatantly obvious that David Ornstein just reported this five minutes ago on Twitter. The only people they'll name are their colleagues from Sky Germany/Italy, even ESPN aren't that petty.
 

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I live in Portugal and RTP don't report something if there isn't some truth there. They are a bit like the BBC when it comes to transfers in that they don't get to attached to gossip unless they know talks have definitely took place.

However they did report we had representatives in Lisbon speaking to Bruno Fernandes last year but I don't know if that ever proved to be true.
 

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I do wonder if that is the case, Spurs are leaking the reports distancing themselves to make it look a clean break, and not that he’s being poached. As soon as he’s a free agent, interest will openly be declared. Albeit isn’t there some technicality that it’s his company that is employed by Lille, not him directly.

On the subject of his function, my understanding is it’s a wider arcing role than just identifying players. That is a scout role really, but I’d assume he’s reaponsible for managing the scouting function. I also expect he’d be responsible for managing the player pathway, making sure we identify the best academy prospects, and further down the line ensuring outgoing loans are suitable. Ultimately linking up all the moving parts of the football side of the business, feeding direct into the board.

Given his comments about liking to work on a smaller budget, you’d assume Levy would be all over that. Look at Lille, they buy Pepe for £10m, two years later they sell for £70m, replace him with Osimhen for £10m ish. Twelve months later, Osimhen could be heading out the door for another big fee, so who does Campos have in mind for his replacement, that’s where we should be looking, and perhaps why we want Campos. Is there another £10-15m player that will follow the same trajectory as the last two. You’d hope the club give him a summer budget, he gets Mourinho’s list of positional needs, then makes the best recommendations that fit within that budget, probably multiple variations of how it could be juggled, mourinho chooses accordingly.
 

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I live in Portugal and RTP don't report something if there isn't some truth there. They are a bit like the BBC when it comes to transfers in that they don't get to attached to gossip unless they know talks have definitely took place.

However they did report we had representatives in Lisbon speaking to Bruno Fernandes last year but I don't know if that ever proved to be true.


I think we most probably did talk to Bruno Fernandes but more as a tactic to get Betis to stop fucking around over Lo Celso.
 

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I think you are missing the point of an appointment like this. When there are no funds for big transfers that is precisely when you need someone like Campos. Someone who can find the next Falcao or M'bappe for peanuts, and put a conveyor belt of talent in place for the first team, avoiding the need to spend £50-60M on players.

I hope we get Campos and that he can also bring Omishen with him (although he would cost significant money now).

isn’t that what our scouts are for? Although I’m beginning to question whether we actually have any at the moment.
 

spids

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isn’t that what our scouts are for? Although I’m beginning to question whether we actually have any at the moment.

It's almost like we need a new director of football ho specialises in implementing incredibly successful and fruitful scouting systems ... oh wait ...

Players Campos has discovered / developed in his roles at Monaco and Lille:

Fabinho
Martial
Mbappe
Bakayoko
Bernado Silva
Lemar
Mendy
Pepe
Soumare
Omishen
Rodriguez
 

Hotspur88

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I think we most probably did talk to Bruno Fernandes but more as a tactic to get Betis to stop fucking around over Lo Celso.
We 100% spoke to his representatives and he was happy to come. It was partly to wake Betis up from playing silly buggers but he was certainly an option.
 

spursfan77

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I think you are missing the point of an appointment like this. When there are no funds for big transfers that is precisely when you need someone like Campos. Someone who can find the next Falcao or M'bappe for peanuts, and put a conveyor belt of talent in place for the first team, avoiding the need to spend £50-60M on players.

I hope we get Campos and that he can also bring Omishen with him (although he would cost significant money now).

I’m not missing the point at all, I’ve a full grasp of the situation, but if there is ZERO POUNDS to spend he’s not going to be much use. I’ve been banging the drum for a head of scouting/director of football since Baldini left but over the last 7 years we are at the point where it is the hardest to appoint one. I’m not sayin don’t appoint one. There’s a world of different.
 

soflapaul

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Is there anyway of explaining the info or Herc and RTP along with JJetset's? Perhaps it is far from a done deal but a possibility?
 

spids

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I’m not missing the point at all, I’ve a full grasp of the situation, but if there is ZERO POUNDS to spend he’s not going to be much use. I’ve been banging the drum for a head of scouting/director of football since Baldini left but over the last 7 years we are at the point where it is the hardest to appoint one. I’m not sayin don’t appoint one. There’s a world of different.

Campos has a scouting network and contacts that identifies youth players who become big players. I am not sure you realise quite how many players he has scouted for nothing in the last few years who are now world stars, but if you did then surely you would realise his value to a club like ours in the current climate. I am happy to 'agree to disagree', but IMO Campos would be a massive signing, *especially* in the current climate where I totally agree that money for transfers will be scarce.

Player : signed for : sold for:
Mbappe : £0 : £166M
Lemar : £0 : £63M
Fabinho : £0 : £47.3M
Bakayoko : £0 : £40m
Martial : £4m : £57.6m
Anthony Martial : £4m : £57.6m
Pepe : £9m : £72m
 
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