It's about getting the best person for the job even if you have to wait. People in this field are normally in jobs and are then put on gardening leave, which is what happened with Dominic Jordan. We're not going any slower than Man City or Liverpool when they were putting their data teams together overseen by their football departments. The only thing that slowed us down was a lack of foresight from both the owners and David Gill, when the ideal time to transition to a modern up to date structure was around 2012. So we're slow due to a lack of foresight from the likes of Gill and then Woodward. But from the time John Murtough was made the defacto DoF, the pace isn't any slower than what I read about Liverpool and Man City under Brian Marwood, when they set the motion for their data science teams. Liverpool for example only brought Will Spearman to the club, six years after Ian Graham arrived in 2012.
And Alex Kleyn isn't someone who was working as part of recruitment at Southampton but rather he was working towards aligning the tactical strategy between the first team and B team by applying advanced statistical metrics. Dominic Jordan is already reported to be working on the recruitment side of things as things stand.
And Alex Kleyn isn't someone who was working as part of recruitment at Southampton but rather he was working towards aligning the tactical strategy between the first team and B team by applying advanced statistical metrics. Dominic Jordan is already reported to be working on the recruitment side of things as things stand.