Woody's latest brainstorm

A scout who doesn't watch any football

What could possibly go wrong.....

Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward plans to appoint a 'scouting auditor' who won't physically watch any football

Manchester United’s root-and-branch recruitment review will see one of their top jobs go to a scout who doesn’t physically watch football.

The unusual post - advertised as a ‘scouting auditor’ - is hoped to offer a fresh perspective to their floundering system.

Thinking behind the role is that it will evolve into one of the senior positions at Old Trafford and act as a form of quality control when identifying transfer targets.

Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is looking to expand the department to arrest problems United have endured since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.

It is understood the new scouting auditor will not be expected to watch any matches themselves, not taking in any players personally.

They will, however, have the final scouting decision on who United should splash the cash on by collating various reports filed by other scouts.

Scores and notes from those in the field will be traded off against each other before the auditor - who must resist the temptation to watch any footage - takes an informed decision in discussions with Woodward and the manager.

Woodward is set to make up to 40 fresh appointments across the department in a bid to strengthen their hand in picking up talent.

There are advertisements out for senior scouts across Europe and in Asia as United continue the huge revamp.

Dutchman Henny de Regt has already been brought in to work with head of youth recruitment Derek Langley, while chief scout Jim Lawlor has been given admin support so he can concentrate fully on finding players.

United want to keep a greatly expanded scouting system in place whoever replaces current manager Louis van Gaal, so avoiding David Moyes' predicament of finding there was no accessible database of potential players when he took over from Ferguson.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-overhaul.html

At last, a job for pure

How much do you think your average scout gets paid?

Originally Posted by Baron

How much do you think your average scout gets paid?

Now you're talking

Sign him up Woody.

He's a disaster.

Originally Posted by Baron

How much do you think your average scout gets paid?

Average scout?

£#%&! all.

He may aswell just use the football manager database . £#%&! sake just as the anger from tuesday started to settle this gimp decides to run the club like a #@&%!.i cannot fathom how a club of this size is so incompetent

Originally Posted by That Boy Ronaldo!

Are you applying ?

Get all your Information from the Internet and paid subscription sites, pass it off as your own and never go the Matc.....


Oh...

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

A scout who doesn't watch any football

What could possibly go wrong.....



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-overhaul.html

Haven't you just posted this exact same thread on redissue?

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Are you applying ?

Get all your Information from the Internet and paid subscription sites, pass it off as your own and never go the Matc.....


Oh...

I might do. Thanks for the encouraging words.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

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Oh...

So its some paper shuffling @#%&! that will assess how many noodles a transfer target may shift in the far east or the commercial value they attract? Nothing to do with football at all. crock of shit.

Originally Posted by Dasilvatwins

He may aswell just use the football manager database . £#%&! sake just as the anger from tuesday started to settle this gimp decides to run the club like a #@&%!.i cannot fathom how a club of this size is so incompetent

That's WyScout (I think this is the system Leicester used to sign Kante & Mahrez recently) & purportedly used by every team except United over the last few years.

I think Moyes was looking to get it all iPadded up in a transfer bunker.

They should incentivise the shit out of scouting, a basic salary & expenses for games, travel & food, then a fractional percentage of any future transfer fee or individual awards etc.

The Peter Taylor / Brian Clough stuff is legendary... "I've found one..." & surely it makes colossal sense to get the best talent in ahead of buying for an inflated fee?

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Haven't you just posted this exact same thread on redissue?

And....

Copy and paste is a wonderful thing

Don't American Football teams have quality control people, they analyse data and run the scouts. they don't tend to be senior people though they're bottom of the coaching ladder rather than senior. Maybe not Woodward's idea?.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

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Oh...

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

And....

Copy and paste is a wonderful thing

Yeah but did you copy and paste it here or there?

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Yeah but did you copy and paste it here or there?

I think that's a pertinent question, can somebody check the time stamps. Theres no way iam happy with RI's sloppy seconds.

Originally Posted by Sizlack

Theres no way iam happy with RI's sloppy seconds.

we're all ri's sloppy seconds.