yellowbow
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Thanks for that captainox. We seem to be well stocked with people with good pedigree. Something doesn’t seem quite right somewhere though. Maybe communication with the owners being so remote..?Head of Recruitment has been Mark Thomas since 2014.
Other clubs have tried poaching him numerous times, most recently his previous employer Pompey in May this year.
Ed Waldron is assistant head of recruitment having previously been an opposition/performance analyst. Seem to think he went and worked for Bordeaux for a season before coming back to us in recruitment.
There's separate youth/academy roles as well.
You've then got Eddie Denton who heads up the analysis team supported by Isaac Alder (good piece on their department in this month's issue of The Ox magazine)
Scouting is a bit hard to identify, as not specifically listed on the club website but believe a fair chunk is done on a regional basis.
A quick LinkedIn search suggests that the following people are also currently employed across the recruitment/analysis/scouting teams:
Naythan Din-Kariuki - Performance & Recruitment Analyst (been with us 2 years, seems to run own scouting venture too)
Levi Lawrence - Football Scout
James Fazackerley - North West Regional Scout
Couple others with private pages
That's just the people who are publicised/searchable.
Incidentally, James Fazackerly. Any relation to Derek? His son maybe?