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Jimmy McCormick
I heard/read somewhere that the main role scouts now have at some clubs is checking up on player's background so that the club know if he's likely to cause trouble at the club.
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Paul Mitchell - Head of Recruitment and Analysis
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I heard/read somewhere that the main role scouts now have at some clubs is checking up on player's background so that the club know if he's likely to cause trouble at the club.
Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
Must say I expected more from this window when Mitchell was recruited...
Not exactly rocket science to target Toby, Trippier, McCarthy, Berahino, Austin etc...
Not exactly rocket science to target Toby, Trippier, McCarthy, Berahino, Austin etc...
Yiddo
Cecil Poynton
Maybe the silver fox is having more of a say?
milo
Jack L. Jones
Trippier looks like a very Mitchell signing from what I have read of him. And if the manager wants us to primarily prioritise Premier League experienced players, what is Mitchell meant to do?
The other side of Mitchell's role is analysing first team squad and youth team players.
These players are at our level. Not top 4 players that we'd like but we're not a top 4 club so they're about as good as we could hope for I'm afraid.
Mitchell's role isn't necessarily to identify players who no one else has ever heard of before. His role is to identify players who will fit best with the manager's requirements and the other players already at the club.
If that means buying players who are already well known to the Premier League and to fans generally, then so be it.
Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
Nobody would be moaning if signed a bunch of unknowns with no PL experience.
Sure but everyone would be happy if we managed to get a couple of unknown quantities from the continent together with the experienced premiership boys. The EPL buys we are likely to make are unlikely to be top 4 material - these will go to CL teams (as we saw with Schneiderlin) or to those with bigger pockets (Benteke to Pool). Therefore our only option of breaking into top 4 is to unearth our next Modric or Berba...
I guess that's why we're trying to sign the likes of Werner, N'Jie and Martial instead of Berahino and Benteke.
Capoue, Stambouli, Fazio?
I don't particularly feel ecstatic by our signings but at least I know they're familiar with the EPL hence ruling out any settling in period.
Maybe Alli will be that player?
Maybe Wimmer will prove to be a top quality central defender?
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
I suppose we also have to acknowledge and accept that he's probably going to have a more difficult job identifying players at a level (and a price) that will improve Spurs, as opposed to Southampton.
Millsy_Yiddo
Naybet
Don't forget that his job is not just to go out and find new players, it's to stop new players from getting in the way of talent we already have if he believes that talent is good enough.
It's possible that he may have already advised Poch against a number of targets because of talent he already believes is at the club.
We were tracking most of them long before he arrived though.
The one that really says black box is N'Jie.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
And Alli was signed before hand
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Rob Mackenzie (one of Mitchells' peers) seems to be given credit for Njie
And Son said Baldini was after him for 2 years.