Arsenal Hire Headhunting Company To Recruit Scouts

[Papa Wonga]

Some of the members on here should send in some CV's

@GDeep™ @Hunta @Riou @OnlyOne

All potential world class scouts.

No andre santos tho lads.

 

[GDeep™]

Had enough of this, tbh.

I said this ages ago, how terrible it is that we keep changing everything all the time behind the scenes...and again, you told me to shut up, and no one wants to read stuff like this.

You are a ****ing war criminal

Maybe you said it in a boring way.

 

[Toby]

But I'd rather see us make an attempt at change than sit on our hands and see the same stuff we've seen for years. Just my opinion.

If a football club is unable to identify the scouts they want and hire a headhunting company - that's just very incompetent and doesn't seem like good change.

 

[OnlyOne]

Have they sucked? How many A class players did Arsène say we "almost" signed but didn't for one reason or other? How many? I honestly can't remember but I'm sure someone here will pipe up with some names. Who do you think brought those names to Arsène?

Scouts can only recommend a list of eligibles, it's the club who signs based on soooo many reasons. How you can dismiss an entire department as sucks, I can not fathom.

Even if the head scout sucked. Was there no one of worth amongst the 9 sacked? Really? Do you really think Arsène would have tolerated and entire department of incompetents?

And FYI, to my recollection our recruitment started going wrong once we started depending on StatDNA (thanks Kroenke) more than the scouts.

Well if the scouts were so good they wouldn't have got overlooked or replaced, and as I said last time the news broke about them being sacked their jobs seem redundant anyway if Wenger/Ivan was picking their own players.

 

[dashsnow17]

But it's not been that long to see if this stuff will work out though, we just have to hope it will benefit us. I don't like the direction the club is going in, but replacing the scouts isn't that big of a deal imo because I didn't think they were doing a good job anyway.

But you have no way to know that. You're basing your opinion off our recruitment, which is a different thing. I'm not saying those old scouts were untouchable, maybe it was time to replace some of them. But it wasn't a planned upgrade, it was a drastic reduction followed by a U-turn. The club clearly isn't being run at all well.

 

[Riou]

Who at Arsenal would even hire the scouts anyway...Edu, Josh, Vinai!?

Yeah...I would honestly prefer a random headhunting company to get them for us, tbh

 

[Gooner416]

Anyway, **** Garlick making an impact already. Love to see it.

 

[OnlyOne]

If a football club is unable to identify the scouts they want and hire a headhunting company - that's just very incompetent and doesn't seem like good change.

I'm not saying they'll pick the right people. My whole debate is that people talk about how good our scouting/recruitment has been but it really wasn't that good. Replacing them isn't a big issue.

Also I think hiring people dedicated to finding the best people for the club isn't a bad idea. For all we know the same people hired have the same scouts in kind that you do.

 

[Papa Wonga]

Who at Arsenal would even hire the scouts anyway...Edu, Josh, Vinai!?

Yeah...I would honestly prefer a random headhunting company to get them for us, tbh

Maybe they have an end of season party and see who goes wild, put them lot on scouting duties.

But yeah, a agency is much better then Vinai or josh lmao.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

i really don't know any of our scouts when wenger was here apart from Cagigao the other staff were like just useless we had scout called grimandi got us nobody from french golden generation apart from Kosh. hopefully this move will get more competitive scouts with more modern eye of scouting.

 

[OnlyOne]

But you have no way to know that. You're basing your opinion off our recruitment, which is a different thing. I'm not saying those old scouts were untouchable, maybe it was time to replace some of them. But it wasn't a planned upgrade, it was a drastic reduction followed by a U-turn. The club clearly isn't being run at all well.

I don't look at it like a U-turn at all, wasn't all the reports at the time saying it was going to be an overhaul?

 

[Papa Wonga]

This club needs a new scouting dept with someone in the ilk of Campos or Monchi running it.

What's the point in hiring scouts who then go and give info to edu who does nothing.

 

[Rimaal]

Well if the scouts were so good they wouldn't have got overlooked or replaced, and as I said last time the news broke about them being sacked their jobs seem redundant anyway if Wenger/Ivan was picking their own players.

They got overlooked and replaced because the Kroenkes had interest in StatDNA and wanted to bring "Money Ball" to european football (chance for profit) and Arsenal was their guinea pig.

 

[A_G]

The scouts didn't recommend Mustafi! The stats company recommended him, the scouts warned against it!

In fairness Mustafi was a late window buy due to Mertesacker's injury in pre-season. Without that he wouldn't have been signed. At the time most thought it was a good signing in the circumstances.

 

[OnlyOne]

Because of the position we're in, nearly every big move looks stupid from the club that has an element of risk to it.

 

[A_G]

They got overlooked and replaced because the Kroenkes had interest in StatDNA and wanted to bring "Money Ball" to european football (chance for profit) and Arsenal was their guinea pig.

Gazidis was the one that brought StatDNA to the club

 

[Papa Wonga]

Don't forget Brian Mc'dermott, absolute World class scout.

or super Franny cagagio lmao.

 

[Rimaal]

Who at Arsenal would even hire the scouts anyway...Edu, Josh, Vinai!?

Yeah...I would honestly prefer a random headhunting company to get them for us, tbh

Yep. They'll be doing the interviewing, and the first question will be: "How good is your relationship with agents"?

 

[Rimaal]

Gazidis was the one that brought StatDNA to the club

And? Gazidis worked for?

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

i trust more company hiring scouts that Edu and Vinai. edu will go with people he knows and Vinai i doubt he know any scouts so yeah leave it to Company it's working well with liverpool to be fair