Further scouting network improvements
If I were to sum up Franco Baldini's task as Technical Director at Tottenham is to bring Tottenham into the 21st century. He has been a Director at Rome and Real Madrid so knows the set-up of a successful club.
Fans love someone to blame, whether they are the right figure or not and often don't look beyond the first-team football. There was a lot that needed changing at the club, improving nutrition, the treatment of injuries, scouting, a clear long-term strategy, providing the right environment, all are equally important to create a successful football team.
The footballing side of Spurs has undergone structuring with Mauricio Pochettino installed as head coach with a set style and strategy the club can follow. We have head hunted staff from other clubs, Rebecca Caplehorn from QPR as Director of Football Operations, Paul Mitchell from Southampton as Head of Recruitment and Analysis, Rob MacKenzie from Leicester City as Head of Player Identification.
With the world class training facility, we now have a far better injury record than we had previously, we do more injury prevention work and tailored diets assist that. While fans may clamour for a big money 'name' signing, the prevention of injury so you can your Harry Kane's on the field more often is an easier way of improving the team, by not having it weakened as often.
Players from Spain and Portugal are brought up in a different way than our youngsters, we have changed coaching football in this country but the possession based team ethic mindset will take longer. The Spanish are light years ahead of us in that respect. In my view, we should be looking more towards Spain for some future hidden gems.
Related Article: Spurs should be buying more Spanish youth
Having brought in the senior figures, we are now seeing them build a scouting network. Paul Mitchell has identified a second scout for Spain and Portugal. We do not scout a great deal in Portugal, certainly not to the extent that other clubs do.
With a second appointment for this region it seems we are now doing something to improve the situation. In February we appointed 24-year-old Spaniard Adrián Espárraga as Senior Scout for Southern Europe and we have followed this with the appointment of Jose Lozano, a former Sporting Director with Tercera club Talavera CF in Spain, a post he left under a bit of a cloud.
You can do your translation and read about that here: Jose Lorenzo
Lorenzo joins us on Friday when he is in London to sign his contract and will then begin as a scout in Spain and Portugal for potential Under-18, Development Squad and first-team players.
You can read news of his appointment here: Jose Lorenzo Appointment
They are a new breed of scout. With the advent of technology, any game can be watched anywhere in the world as long as it is recorded. That can then be analysed, an individual player can be analysed, either statistically, all club use statistics, and visually creating an individual tape of anything you want at the touch of a button. Then it is over to the eye and tradition.
It seems Mitchell is building as part of a plan where more scouting and potential player identification is done through the use of technology. Neither you would say are experienced in traditional methods so presumably they will take the scouting to a certain level and then recommend a player to Mitchell for further evaluation and more experienced visual scouting.
I have written before how we need to be making improvements is every aspect at Spurs, however minor, in every single facet of the club continually. All these add up to bigger and bigger improvement, that then happens faster and faster. There will be blips, nobody makes the right decision every time, but improving our scouting network in a region where players play in our style is a step in the right direction.
Fans love someone to blame, whether they are the right figure or not and often don't look beyond the first-team football. There was a lot that needed changing at the club, improving nutrition, the treatment of injuries, scouting, a clear long-term strategy, providing the right environment, all are equally important to create a successful football team.
The footballing side of Spurs has undergone structuring with Mauricio Pochettino installed as head coach with a set style and strategy the club can follow. We have head hunted staff from other clubs, Rebecca Caplehorn from QPR as Director of Football Operations, Paul Mitchell from Southampton as Head of Recruitment and Analysis, Rob MacKenzie from Leicester City as Head of Player Identification.
With the world class training facility, we now have a far better injury record than we had previously, we do more injury prevention work and tailored diets assist that. While fans may clamour for a big money 'name' signing, the prevention of injury so you can your Harry Kane's on the field more often is an easier way of improving the team, by not having it weakened as often.
Players from Spain and Portugal are brought up in a different way than our youngsters, we have changed coaching football in this country but the possession based team ethic mindset will take longer. The Spanish are light years ahead of us in that respect. In my view, we should be looking more towards Spain for some future hidden gems.
Related Article: Spurs should be buying more Spanish youth
Having brought in the senior figures, we are now seeing them build a scouting network. Paul Mitchell has identified a second scout for Spain and Portugal. We do not scout a great deal in Portugal, certainly not to the extent that other clubs do.
With a second appointment for this region it seems we are now doing something to improve the situation. In February we appointed 24-year-old Spaniard Adrián Espárraga as Senior Scout for Southern Europe and we have followed this with the appointment of Jose Lozano, a former Sporting Director with Tercera club Talavera CF in Spain, a post he left under a bit of a cloud.
You can do your translation and read about that here: Jose Lorenzo
Lorenzo joins us on Friday when he is in London to sign his contract and will then begin as a scout in Spain and Portugal for potential Under-18, Development Squad and first-team players.
You can read news of his appointment here: Jose Lorenzo Appointment
They are a new breed of scout. With the advent of technology, any game can be watched anywhere in the world as long as it is recorded. That can then be analysed, an individual player can be analysed, either statistically, all club use statistics, and visually creating an individual tape of anything you want at the touch of a button. Then it is over to the eye and tradition.
It seems Mitchell is building as part of a plan where more scouting and potential player identification is done through the use of technology. Neither you would say are experienced in traditional methods so presumably they will take the scouting to a certain level and then recommend a player to Mitchell for further evaluation and more experienced visual scouting.
I have written before how we need to be making improvements is every aspect at Spurs, however minor, in every single facet of the club continually. All these add up to bigger and bigger improvement, that then happens faster and faster. There will be blips, nobody makes the right decision every time, but improving our scouting network in a region where players play in our style is a step in the right direction.
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