Not that it ever seems to be available information, but Id be very interested in his record - which players he signed/recommended etc
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Not that it ever seems to be available information, but Id be very interested in his record - which players he signed/recommended etc
He was head scout at Woolwich between 2021 - 2025 so his tenure in that role includes players like Odegaard, White, Zinchencho, G-Jesus, Havertz, Rice, Merino and the like.
Some flops in there as well obviously. But begrudgingly he did a good job there at scouting players.
Why Ayto is leaving Albion ahead of summer transfer window
Jason Ayto’s sudden and unexpected departure from a key role at Albion was down to different ideas on the process of player recruitment.
www.theargus.co.uk
The Argus understands the parting, which was decided upon when Ayto and Barber met on Tuesday, was as amicable as could be hoped for.
There was no falling-out and nor were the club unhappy at any one Ayto deal or decision in particular.
But both sides had come to realise they were not the perfect fit.
Ultimately the man brought in from Woolwich is understood to have found his own, more traditional, strengths and the data-led recruitment model of the club further apart than he first expected.
He was too old school? You would think that would come up in the interview process
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/1tvmi6s/brighton_sporting_director_jason_ayto_leaves_club/
Thanks for Zubimendi
Him and Edu together were one of the slowest moving sporting directors I've ever seen. Edu has done well with the rebuild, but not signing a backup for Saka and Havertz was criminal.
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Will forever be remembered as the bloke with only one photo
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Two best guys if you ever need to monitor a situation and wait for a market opportunity [
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Off to aura farming somewhere else i guess
Jasons Wife on Twitter
Jason Ayto's Wife Hits Out At Brighton After Shock Departure
Following the sporting director's abrupt exit, social media defenses of his recruitment record spark a heated debate over Tony Bloom’s data-driven model and plummeting transfer success rates.
roundtable.io
"Who decides everything at the club is Tony [Bloom]! He doesn't give people the power to do their jobs.They have different ways of working. Tony bases everything on data and statistics. Jason [Ayto] does too, but also human factors. Just different ways of working.
But since a club hires someone they know well, they should know how to better utilise their talents."
https://paininthearsenal.com/why-jason-ayto-missing-out-Woolwich-sporting-director-job
This one basically says Woolwich were at a stage where they needed a big gun, not someone groomed to step up at the time Berta came in
Athletic puff piece on him
Jason Ayto, the Arsenal scout turned interim sporting director who has ‘something special’
The 39-year-old has been at Woolwich for a decade and now has the chance to show he can be the long-term sporting director
www.nytimes.com
Interestingly - he was in the old school scouting/recruitment department but he wanted to modernise, so was involved when Edu came in and sacked most of them off to rebuild it:
It would save Woolwich money, too. When the global pandemic bit in 2020, they made the vast majority of their scouting team redundant. It was a painful process, one that meant unceremonious exits for distinguished staff like Clark, Cagigao and Brian McDermott.
Ayto was one of the few who were spared. Many of those who were let go considered him culpable. But Edu is prepared to take responsibility. “When I joined, I realised there was something to fix in this department,” he explains.
Ayto was undoubtedly one of the beneficiaries of the change. “I started to give Jason more responsibility in the scouting area,” says Edu. “He started to be closer to me. And everything I asked him to do, he always gave me the right answers, at the right time. He was really dedicated to show me more. The more responsibility I gave him, the more he delivered.
“I granted Jason the responsibility to help build a new structure and a new recruitment team. He started to interview people, make recommendations, give advice. We built the team together, Jason almost leading the whole process — I just took the final decisions.”
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Ayto did much of the groundwork for the signing of Kai Havertz from Chelsea; he and Curtis collaborated on the recruitment process for Jurrien Timber.
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Ayto was heavily involved in the minutiae of negotiations. He is credited with finding the breakthrough in difficult talks to sign Riccardo Calafiori. He has been improving his Spanish and was also part of the discussions over the signing of Mikel Merino.
Every Woolwich signing by Edu as sporting director resigns
2019/20
Nicolas Pepe – £72m
William Saliba – £27m
Kieran Tierney – £24.3m
Pablo Mari – £5.4m + £7.2m loan fee
David Luiz – £7.8m
Dani Ceballos – Loan
Cedric Soares – Loan/Free
2020/21
Thomas Partey – £45m
Martin Odegaard – £31.5m + £1.8m loan fee
Gabriel Magalhaes – £23.4m
Alex Runarsson – £1.8m
Willian – Free
Mat Ryan – Loan
2021/22
Ben White – £52m
Aaron Ramsdale – £25m
Takehiro Tomiyasu – £16.7m
Albert Sambi Lokonga – £15.75m
Nuno Tavares – £7m
Auston Trusty – £1.6m
2022/23
Gabriel Jesus – £45.5m
Fabio Vieira – £30.4m
Oleksandr Zinchenko – £30.4m
Jakub Kiwior – £22.3m
Leandro Trossard – £21.4m
Jorginho – £10m
Matt Turner – £5.7m
Marquinhos – £2.6m
2023/24
Declan Rice – £101m
Kai Havertz – £64.8m
Jurrien Timber – £34.6m
David Raya – £27m + £3m loan fee
2024/25
Riccardo Calafiori – £42m
Mikel Merino – £31.6m
Raheem Sterling – Loan
Neto – Loan
Presumably the latter seasons he will have been more involved in
All of which is to say, Ayto =
I don’t care if that prick discovered the greatest players in the game. No more ex-Woolwich. End of.
Agreed, but - Vinai is in the hot seat - so we have to consider these things
Yeah...Im petty like that too. Fuck em.
Gonna end up like what I used to do on Champ Man, take over at Woolwich and flog all of their decent players for a pittance, whilst signing absolute dross for a fortune, immediately quitting once all deals had gone through and intermittently checking in from afar on the financial spiral I'd initiated, culminating in eventual relegation...
Gonna end up like what I used to do on Champ Man, take over at Woolwich and flog all of their decent players for a pittance, whilst signing absolute dross for a fortune, immediately quitting once all deals had gone through and intermittently checking in from afar on the financial spiral I'd initiated, culminating in eventual relegation...
I do that too! I mean did....
did...
