How has he done with Southampton?
Jason Wilcox - New technical director
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Cox out
What's does his role involve?
He's the reason why City kept Cole Palmer.
From club statement
He will work with all technical areas of the football department to achieve the highest standards of performance.
From Sky:
Berrada wants the former winger, who won the Premier League with Blackburn in 1995, to form a crucial part of the new set-up at Old Trafford; and to be guided, eventually, by sporting director-elect Dan Ashworth.
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Hope we go for De Zerbi
This is impressive. Proper football people in proper position can do wonder for the club. Who would have guessed?
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No expert but I would think he will be the conduit between Nick Cox(Academy Director), the First team Coach and Reporting direct to Dan Ashworth, almost like his number two,
Wilcox has an excellent record with the youth and understand the role Nick Cox is doing more than anyone else now at the club, he’ll also be looking to appoint scouts that report directly to him and Dan Ashworth and create pathways for youth players like Shea Lacey, Jack Fletcher and others to come through.
Short Term - He will act more like DOF this summer while the club agrees a severance deal with Newcastle for Dan Ashworth. He has a particularly good relationship with players like Jeremie Frimpong, Jared Branthwaite, Cole Palmer, Tosin Aderbiyou and Jadon Sancho, some of these played for his youth team, some like brantwaite have David Reeves as their agent who is extremely close to Wilcox.
He will have a huge influence this summer, so expect some young players we’ve not heard of as well.
Long Term - With Berrada and Ashworth they will implement a football structure which will breakdown into ;
1. The same Style of Play throughout all teams from youth to Mens.
2. Youth Development and pathway to first team becomes clearer
3. Improving Scouting Network with 6 maybe 7 heads for each continent, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Central and Notth America, Oceania, Middle East
4. Setting Manager and First team Targets and helping them receive the help needed to succeed
5. Radically chang the Medical Department, upgrading equipment and improving overall performance
6. Part of a transfer committee who are responsible for selling and buying platters.
7. Involved with Ashworth and Berrada on player contracts.
8. oversee Yourh and Women’s team performance.
In the immediate, he might be at Wembley On Sunday making a copious amount of notes and after the game, realise that he might have chose the wrong career path ?
Wilcox to revive Sancho's career in Man Utd! Hopefully also unearth more gems in the academy!
Bit premature.
Yeah talk of appointing one seems to have completely died down so maybe plans have changed
I'm glad to see us hiring someone our new CEO wants to work with, who has worked successfully before and has a good CV. Even better, hes a former fecking player. This feels like a grown up decision.
Yeah Julian Ward was the other one,however Ornstein seemed convinced he wouldn't be appointed
Well, yeah, but it's what he's doing now.
Small time
Not small time but sounds rather respectful
Yeah that's fair, expecting one man to be the messiah is mainly why we find ourselves in this position. We need collaborative efforts and we mostly need someone who can listen to our own scouts and push for the deals they identify at the upper echelons of the club.
From him personally I expect that, given the fact that he has spent the last season in the Championship, he will be able to steer us into the direction of one or two players there who are ready for the Premier league or who can be project signings at LB, CB or midfield. If we can bring two or three talented players from that league who can come in and contribute positively for a combined fee around 50m I'd be chuffed.
Because when I look at what we absolutely need I see the DM, RCB, LCB and striker. That's bound to cost a King's Ransom but we don't have adequate back up at DM and LB, so if we got those two roles sorted from the Championship by getting two young players ready to fill in who have the talent to challenge for starting spot in a few years time then we will be in a strong position.
Probably somewhat incidental, but maybe not totally, this is pretty in line with how we play now:
“The one thing that you can see that’s happened already, and this is from the first team down to even the under-18s, under-16s, is that they do play pretty much exactly the same way,” House explained when asked what Wilcox has done with the academy.
“They play this 4-3-3 with a number nine that sort of drops into midfield to spin balls off and turn. You’ve got wingers making constant runs, full-backs are coming into the middle of the pitch, inverting. They’re all doing that in every age group.”
“The one thing that you can see that’s happened already, and this is from the first team down to even the under-18s, under-16s, is that they do play pretty much exactly the same way,” House explained when asked what Wilcox has done with the academy.
“They play this 4-3-3 with a number nine that sort of drops into midfield to spin balls off and turn. You’ve got wingers making constant runs, full-backs are coming into the middle of the pitch, inverting. They’re all doing that in every age group.”
or maybe he knows exactly what Sancho's attitude is and will do his best to push him out
Apparently he likes him, which wouldn't be too surprising as Sancho was impressing a lot during his tenure. And besides, he knew what he was like as a teenager. I suspect the issue with Sancho is that he's still exactly the same as he was at 16.
Ultimately I don't think Wilcox will have much bearing on the Sancho situation. He might be a voice in his favour, but unless he can get the player to apologise to his teammates and possibly his coach, that's all he'll be.
Most of this I can see, but I would have thought that scouting will be done by the head of recruitment, which we're yet to sign.
Technical Director who hasn’t done that role before
CEO who hasn’t done that role before
They might be great people and I hope they are, and they will no doubt have many of the skills required, but the fact that they have not done these jobs before gives a bit of concern.
CEO who hasn’t done that role before
They might be great people and I hope they are, and they will no doubt have many of the skills required, but the fact that they have not done these jobs before gives a bit of concern.
Great news.
Sure, and I get it, but I'm sure Ineos have have a structure to support and mentor people in their new roles, knowing their competencies from their previous successes
Jean-Claude Blanc assisting Omar Berrada assisting Wilcox etc. etc.
I don't know him at all, but according to the Sky Sports article, his stellar work at City where he rose through the ranks, bringing through talented players like Sancho, Foden, the fact that he's said to instill an enjoyable but challenging culture of excellence, has a clear view of how football should be played, is obsessed with having a first team packed with high quality players from thr academy, and his short time with Southampton coincided with their longest unbeaten streak.
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Jason #FreeHannibal
Did Southampton have a technical director that reported to him or did his role cover that? Genuinely don't know, just asking
Wilcox just spent a year as DOF at Southampton, what had Edwards done before becoming Liverpool's Technical Director?
Berrada reportedly handled or participated in transfer negotians at City. He is the guy who advised City to walk away from the Maguire deal, reportedly so he has expertise in what has been our Achilles Heel for over a decade. He has a background in football marketing and we have Blanc in the board and heavily involved at INEOS.
My understanding is he was key to developing City's outstanding academy. Don't know much about what he's done at Southampton but they didn't want to lose him.
Seems to basically taking over Fletchers role, but with with fletcher staying on I’m guessing as an understudy
Fletcher never had anything to do with recruitment.
He has a youth network and was putting together another network with Southampton so he will have input in this area too.
What's supposed to be going on with Andy O'Boyle, is he out with Murtough?
I hope he comes in kicking
I really doubt it as Sancho has worked with him for a long time and all the reports indicating that he likes Sancho and they have good working relationship.
Wilcox is good in developing young players. A case in point, everyone had given up on Cole Palmer at City but Wilcox persisted.
I still think that there is a slight possibility that Sancho may get back to his best working under Wilcox again.