What were the Burnley recruitment team doing tonight ?

[ClaretinBudapest]

Er indoors is an artist-she paints portraits on stones and I commissioned her to do one of SD in 2016 and when we came to the UK in 2019 we contacted the club and Darren Bentley kindly arranged for us to meet SD to hand over the stone.We had a quick tour of Gawthorpe and then met Sean who seemed very genuine and cordial and asked me what I meant about scouting in Central Europe as I had already mentioned it to Darren.I asked him if the club needed a scout in Central Europe as it would be much cheaper to get the Central and Eastern European players before they are well known in Western Europe.Darren Bentley said he would pass the message on to Mike Rigg and give him my details and they would be in touch if they thought it would be interesting.Needless to say there was never a call.
I therefore presume there is no interest in scouting and/or signing players from Czech/Slovakia/Hungary/Croatia/Romania and Serbia.

[sinkov]

I therefore presume there is no interest in scouting and/or signing players from Czech/Slovakia/Hungary/Croatia/Romania and Serbia.

I get the strong impression CiB, that the club has no interest in scouting and/or signing players from anywhere. And hasn't been that interested for over three years now. It's all very odd.

[ClaretinBudapest]

I get the strong impression CiB, that the club has no interest in scouting and/or signing players from anywhere. And hasn't been that interested for over three years now. It's all very odd.

Shame really.A bit of technical ability is sadly and badly missing from the teamThe PM here is a football fanatic.They have poured billions into infrastructure over the last 10 years and the results are starting to show.The national team is improving slowly.Not to mention Croatia/Serbia which are full of technically gifted players.

[sinkov]

Shame really.A bit of technical ability is sadly and badly missing from the teamThe PM here is a football fanatic.They have poured billions into infrastructure over the last 10 years and the results are starting to show.The national team is improving slowly.Not to mention Croatia/Serbia which are full of technically gifted players.

You've tried CiB, but you might as well bang your head against a brick wall.

[malwayne]

Just over 20 years ago. I was watching a lot of Welsh football which featured teams such as Barry Town , TNS, Porthmadog etc. Barry were quite successful and regularly played in the qualifying rounds of European competition,against the likes of Porto and Dinamo Kyiv.They had a very good goalie called Mark Ovendale. You could tell he was going to play at a much higher level. I got hold of our wonderful club, and virtually told them to get over to North Wales, to have a look at this goalie in the very near future. They didn’t , and I heard no more from the club. At the end of that season, he was transferred to Bournemouth for £30,000. 2 seasons later he moved to Luton Town for £400,000. All I could was smile. Nothing’s changed in all that time, it seems. In the end, I just didn’t see the point of trying to help.

I get the strong impression CiB, that the club has no interest in scouting and/or signing players from anywhere. And hasn't been that interested for over three years now. It's all very odd.

[sinkov]

Just over 20 years ago. I was watching a lot of Welsh football which featured teams such as Barry Town , TNS, Porthmadog etc. Barry were quite successful and regularly played in the qualifying rounds of European competition,against the likes of Porto and Dinamo Kyiv.They had a very good goalie called Mark Ovendale. You could tell he was going to play at a much higher level. I got hold of our wonderful club, and virtually told them to get over to North Wales, to have a look at this goalie in the very near future. They didn’t , and I heard no more from the club. At the end of that season, he was transferred to Bournemouth for £30,000. 2 seasons later he moved to Luton Town for £400,000. All I could was smile. Nothing’s changed in all that time, it seems. In the end, I just didn’t see the point of trying to help.

There was one keeper closer to home than that Mal, in the 90s Carlo Nash was playing non-league football right under our noses for Rossendale United and Clitheroe, and he'd been with the Manchester United Academy, so it wasn't as though he was a jumped up pub team keeper. Did we have him watched, did we even know he existed, no idea, but Crystal Palace did and paid Clitheroe £35,000 for him. He went on to play for Manchester City in the Premier League.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I get the strong impression CiB, that the club has no interest in scouting and/or signing players from anywhere. And hasn't been that interested for over three years now. It's all very odd.

I don't think it will take an American banking executive long to realise which members of the club are stealing a wage...

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