Director of recruitment: for senior players.
Probably interested in getting our talented 19-24 yo players but we were always going to have that problem where the kids are going to have to decide of staying at City or getting more game time elsewhere.
If anything he won't be scouting kids personally for the academy level.
And honestly it is natural to want to progress in life and get a promotion and the next level job vs staying in a dead end job.
I'm sure City appointed someone good for recruitment or they'll replace them.
Yeah Chelsea already have a head of academy who oversees recruitment for the academy. Sounds like this guy is coming in to be the head of recruitment overall for the club.
Regarding the bolded, that is a problem Chelsea and most other big clubs have. Striking the balance between providing legit pathways for academy players and creating a team that can challenge on all fronts is very hard.
or he isn't as highly thought of as the current chief scout at City?Fair enough,seems we were a bit slow on the uptake then.
Maybe, but don’t they have their own super-duper academy?Shields going there will mean they’ll come sniffing at our academy/EDS the same way Southampton did in the Summer. Surprised it’s taken so long for clubs to come after our staff given our recent success.
They already went after Lavia on deadline day so no doubt they’ll try again with the Shields connection. Hopefully the club are right in their supposed trust that players have a loyalty to us and will want to come back (like Barca did/do).
We haven’t done too badly on that score tbf. Akanji for a quarter of what the odd lot paid for Tattoo from Fantasy Island a case in pointor he isn't as highly thought of as the current chief scout at City?
Crafty cunts.....a very cheeky way to get Lavia through the door.
Why did Shields leave us btw?
More like your former top talents. Lavia will be Chelsea bound now :)
Providing legal pathways, didn't chelsea get banned for illegal pathways :)Yeah Chelsea already have a head of academy who oversees recruitment for the academy. Sounds like this guy is coming in to be the head of recruitment overall for the club.
Regarding the bolded, that is a problem Chelsea and most other big clubs have. Striking the balance between providing legit pathways for academy players and creating a team that can challenge on all fronts is very hard.
They do seem to be going down the predator route, look at the lad they tapped up from Villa this summer.Any young player will have the same situation at Chelsea because they will still buy first teamers..
They do seem to be going down the predator route, look at the lad they tapped up from Villa this summer.
That said it’s nothing new, they have previous eg Sturridge from us more than a decade ago, he was relentlessly tapped up for a year beforehand
We’ve almost certainly done the same tbf
Google translate needed.If he had to go tk Chelsea them might as well would have stayed here. What a clown
If he had to go tk Chelsea them might as well would have stayed here. What a clown
Yeah, Haaland actually thought he was getting a signed photo of Txiki. Things all got lost in translation but he seems happy now.Why would a player choose a club because of any personal relationship with the head of recruitment?
You have no day to day interaction.