Postecoglou & Lange (& Paratici) Watch

Mike McGrath says we’re appointing Rangers’ Andy Scoulding as our new chief scout.

 

Sort of.
"Tottenham will appoint Rangers chief scout Andy Scoulding to a role at the club ahead of their return to the Champions League next season."

Specifically rules him out of being on the recruitment team, which is about three people, IIRC.
Might be chief scout or something very similar, but Paratici's role may make it a little different.

 

Playing him out of position then....

 

Could be youth recruitment, considering a few PL clubs are scouring SPL youth teams these days

 

Yeah realised I read it wrong, lol. He’s currently Rangers’ chief scout and I computed it as he was gonna be ours.

Sounds like he’s going to be “assistant performance director”.

 

Are we putting on plays now or something?

 

Another suggestion is he'll replace Hitchen in the role he after Paratici came in, where he was scouting lower league HG talent

 

The human side of our manager.

 

More staff additions:

Yes, the Gretar Steinsson that played for Bolton but no, not the Simon Davies that played for us.

 

Why the **** do we want the ex-Everton head of recruitment?
2018-2021, during which time they went to utter ****, basically.

 

hopefully his job is to carry Paratici’s luggage and make the coffees.

sounds like a reet useless kaant for anything else

 

He may be a man that made some very good recommendations but got over-ruled at Everton, someone at your place knows something.

 

that’s what I’ve read somewhere else actually but for now we will stick with what I said until he proves otherwise

just to be safe

 

Read somewhere else that he's being hired as an analyst for the squad, rather than a scout.
Davies is going to be part of the academy coaching set-up.

 

Pretty sure Conte is the answer...

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There’s a rumour saying Simon Davies didn’t turn up for his first day of work with us yesterday and that he may instead go and join Kompany at Burnley.

Kompany chose them over the French Riviera and now Davies is possibly choosing them over us…

The **** is happening in Burnley that we don’t know about?!

 

A few excerpts of what The pathetic said about Gretar Steinsson

What people who've worked with him say about him:
He is known for his honesty, his straightforwardness, his utter contempt for bullshit. Be that with agents, who generally appreciate his direct approach, or colleagues he does not feel are up to scratch. His great friend and former colleague Marcel Brands, who hired Steinsson as his de facto deputy while Everton’s director of football, has said of him: “He’s like a pit bull — if he sees something and wants something, he goes for it.”

“He would walk out and say to the groundsman, ‘Why is your pitch ****?’”, remembers one observer who saw Steinsson’s work up close while he was technical director at Fleetwood Town, in League One, for almost four years from early 2015. “People would be saying, ‘Gretar, why are you saying that?’ And his reaction would be, ‘But the pitch is ****’.”

His reputation (e.g. what Spurs like about him)
This may seem a little counter-intuitive given Everton’s dysfunctionality, but while Steinsson is not seen as being faultless in that club’s recent struggles, he is generally very respected in the game and seen as someone who had to navigate an extremely difficult political situation at Goodison Park (more on that later).

After leaving Everton last December, The Athletic has learned Steinsson started working in an advisory capacity for the Iceland FA the following month. His colleagues there say he was extremely helpful, especially in their attempts to modernise their data operation.

Steinsson is similarly well thought of at Tottenham, who moved quickly to secure his appointment amid interest from other Premier League clubs. The 40-year-old will have the ear of the most influential figures at Spurs, who were impressed with his innovative use of elements of recruitment including data analytics while at Everton.

He also shares several beliefs with Paratici and head coach Antonio Conte, such as the importance of signing Premier League-ready players. There are even similarities in views of individual players, with Yves Bissouma and Djed Spence among those Steinsson has been interested in previously.

Explanation of the Situation at Everton
Those close to the situation and many within the game though feel that Brands and Steinsson, who both left the Merseyside club in December, were in large part hamstrung by a power struggle going on around them.

The decision to appoint Rafa Benitez as manager last summer after Carlo Ancelotti returned to Real Madrid saw Steinsson and Brands marginalised.

Generally, Brands and Steinsson would perform due diligence on Everton’s managerial targets, but it was Moshiri who had the final say on who got the gig. Graham Potter (more than once), Christophe Galtier, Roberto Martinez and Roger Schmidt were among those Brands and Steinsson had been interested in. Benitez, a former Liverpool manager, was an entirely different profile.

 

We’re apparently close to appointing Gianni Vio as a set piece coach.

Apparently a very highly regarded coach in that field and boy do we need one that can help us in that regard.

 

If he can stop Kane taking free kicks and get somebody to not hit the wall or the 1st man on a corner it will be money well spent