Quote Originally Posted by The_Moog View Post
MacDonald has hardly played tbf. He deserves a run. Certainly ahead of that walking disaster.

The “process” and recruitment philosophy is fine and as it should be - and we’ve had some big hits with Ferguson, Ramadani and Miovski, but I’d like to know exactly what the analysis and decision making in the process involves?

I know stats & data play a big part, but are they actually fully scouting these guys and taking a good look at them actually playing?

I’m struggling to believe they are in some cases - Richardson, Rubezic, Guere, Stewart, Dadia? (no one’s seen him tbf).

I have eyes, I’ve watched them. I’m no expert of course, but it was abundantly clear to me very quickly they are just shyte. If we have scouts looking at these guys properly, and still recommending them, we need some new scouts…
Our head of recruitment Mowbray left in the summer and we replaced him with a guy called Jordan Miles. He will be the guy who has recommended the players we signed this summer.

I can’t see these guys travelling all over the world to watch the players we sign it’s all just done on a laptop then they sit down with the manager and Steven Gunn to decide who we want to sign.