Lol that is woeful!I'll show you a Jorg Schmadtke
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They’re both heavy on data based analytics. Both owned by former quant guys (Bloom actually employed Benham at one time)
Neither bears much relevance to the situation at Spurs for a variety of reasons.
Smart recruitment is relevant to every club.
True, and obviously we have much to learn from both clubs, but an operation at Tottenham's level presents a variety of challenges that aren't germane to Brighton or Brentford.
One thing we have to learn, by the way, is the way both of those projects utilize selling players at the peak of their value as a critical part of the overall strategy.
Depends if that smart recruitment is aimed at turning a huge profit on investments or finding players at the correct price and taking you up a level.
See Brighton and Liverpool for different kinds of smart recruitment. Whilst it'd be great to unearth a Moises Caicedo for example. We could have that in Sarr and we've seen that we barely give those types a chance regardless.
Whereas if we signed a Sadio Mane or Mohamed Salah for example, they would have taken us up a level at the time and would have been smarter recruits.
Brighton shop a lot in the South American market - eg Enciso from Paraguay & Buonanotte from Argentina.
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Are these really data analytics purchases? Or scout / agent recommendations?No, we aren't going to be able to sell players at peak value. Our wage bill is too big and the fan base is too ambitious. Obviously, it would have been better to pull the team apart in 17/18 and trust the process to rebuild it, but selling off Eriksen, Kane and Dele to Chelsea and Man Utd would have put us where we are now in terms of disaffection. But we can get a lot better at identifying players and our management of younger ones.
TBF, we were once pretty good at exactly that.
Then we got within a whisker of the PL and decided to try and push on with the current crop rather than sell high/buy low again. It was clear to everyone in Madrid that we'd crested, including Poch who admitted he had designs on leaving.
The greatest failing for Tottenham, other than the two barren windows which look like the beginning of the end created by 2 stubborn men, was not starting the rebuild then. At least a reload.
Liverpool's success was built on stacking recruiting success from the Suarez sale and then the Coutinho sale. It's all come down no one can be perfect forever. But where they sold both of those players, we held on to Eriksen and let his contract expire and let Dele crater as a footballing asset. Hell there was even a time we could have sold Dier for a mint.
Levy talked himself into backing this squad to be able to push on. That was a mistake.
The last five years in two sentences.
Hopefully not to be extended to ten years.
Yeah, Brighton have brought in a load of high level players for small fees and play lovely football, and they've had identified two coaches over the past few years who'll have big futures. Brentford have done really well.. but don't think they've unearthed players in anything like the same way, while playing fairly robust, defensive, counter-attacking football. Hopefully we find the right person, Tottenham is a different job to Brentford, a Manchester United is a different job to Tottenham, and so on.
We are not responsible for having an idea though.
Brentford guy sounds interesting.
Doesn’t mean he’d recruit Brentford style players for Spurs, just means he’s proven he can recruit well to the budget and style he’s recruiting for.
Doesn’t mean he’d recruit Brentford style players for Spurs, just means he’s proven he can recruit well to the budget and style he’s recruiting for.
I’d say recruitment covers players and coaches. Hopefully matching a universal strategy.
Agree, smart recruitment can fit different remits, sometimes all at the same time. Worth noting that it was selling Coutinho that helped fund some of Liverpool’s smart purchases. When they stopped selling, their spending power reduced somewhat, resulting in a downturn in performance.
Tottenham could poach Prem sporting director as they seek Paratici replacement
TOTTENHAM are looking to appoint Brentford Technical Director Lee Dykes as the replacement for Fabio Paratici, according to reports. Paratici, 50, resigned from his position as the club’s Man…
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Tottenham could poach Premier League sporting director as they step up pursuit of Paratici replacement
- Published: 16:18, 8 May 2023
TOTTENHAM are looking to appoint Brentford Technical Director Lee Dykes as the replacement for Fabio Paratici, according to reports.
Still taking too fucking long to sort this position out.
Michael Edwards is out of work ffs.
If not him, there are clearly DOFs out there to get.
Michael Edwards is out of work ffs.
If not him, there are clearly DOFs out there to get.
He doesn’t sound like a DOF though. I think if he or someone similar came in that it would be in addition to a DOF. A Dykes would head up the recruitment while the DOF gets on with overseeing everything else underneath Munn. Or is that too many cooks???
Liverpool took about 2 years. We don’t really know what’s going on, but for once, I’m just glad there seems like there actually is!
Was wondering that.
Either he gets a new gig that is a step up or he comes in with a new DOF above him.
There’s a long article on the athletic which makes him sound more like a guy who’d come in and head up some of the recruitment and data driven side, which we are now driving towards. I was under the impression that a DOF was more of an overseer of departments and set how each one operated etc. Dykes doesn’t sound like that guy and I just think we’d go with someone with more experience of that. He sounds good though and would be a good appointment. But I suspect he’s one of many we are looking at although obviously that’s just a guess!