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Sticking my neck out! But i would LOVE to hear any explanation as to why he looks like this in my quote below. Because I have never seen a *good* player look this bad in the numbers. Good players, especially someone supposed to be good on the ball, show their quality, they are used by their teams to show their quality, and you can track what they are good at in some way. This isn't just a 1 season thing - this is standard for him.
I don't know anything about this player, but so far Newcastle's DOF and the player recruitment team has been doing a pretty good job identify talents to improve the team. They got a top 4 spot the first full season after the take over. So my guess is they know what they are doing.
They also spent 40m on Anthony Gordon who is a nothing player. Eddie Howe has a track record of making some awful purchases despite being a good manager. Just because they did well with Trippier, Guimaraes and Isak doesn't mean they they are immune from mistakes. Guimaraes was obviously class before hand, Trippier everyone knew was class but wanted high wages and age meant not a whole lot of clubs were chasing, and Isak showed up very good in the stats for 2 years in la Liga before having a down year, after which they pounced (young players shouldn't be discarded after 1 bad year). Tonali has never shown up well in any of the numbers. So the question of what does he bring is a very valid one.
The player recruitment side is still being led by Steve Nickson who has been at Newcastle for 12 years and 6 years as the head of scouting. The big change is the ownership.
He's the DoF but doesn't control the recruitment at the club. That job is down to Steve Nickson. The role of the DoF is to oversee it all and empower the people working in the different departments on the football side of the club. Because a recruitment department is just one of multiple departments under a DoF but us fans seen to think that the entire football structure involves just recruitment.
This is obviously different than what I have seen from Amazon documentary on Arsenal. Edu is the one responsible for the work but basically lots of people are involved in the decision making process given the amount of money involved.
According to what I've read, the person in charge of the recruitment at Arsenal pertaining to the first team is James Ellis who was promoted in March. And it's him and the scouts working alongside him that provide Edu with the players to chase. And like at Newcastle, the head of recruitment even gets involved in making deals happen. The same is happening at Chelsea with Paul Winstanley (ex Brighton head of scouting) also accompanying the owners to finalise deals.
And a few others tbh - https://www.nufc.com/2023-24html/transfers-howe.html - Burn, Pope and Botman all are at least value for money if not downright steals.
Yep very fair with them too. Gordon to me looked a nothing player at Everton, the stats and analytics both show a nothing player and Howe has barely used him which to me says he's just continued to be a nothing player. But yeah we'll see there. Never understood the hype.
I like how they’ve somehow turned Joelington from a ST to a midfielder. That takes some doing. Was it Bruce that made that change?
Playing in the best league in the world and playing in a defensive one. Not tough at all.
True. It’s all about money for some teams though. Pushing a player out like that is awful.
Nothing to see here.The club probably threatened with never playing him again if he did that… The fans aren’t actually gonna back him on that either. They understand the business. Their club can’t keep improving if it pass on such financial opportunities.
