Manchester United are revamping their scouting network – and are hunting a new recruitment guru.
Mail Sport understands that the Premier League giants have made a series of redundancies and want to rapidly improve their identification and acquirement of talent after a series of disastrous transfer windows.
It can be disclosed that London-based ‘sports intelligence agency’ Sportsology has been tasked with making a series of hires – which include a Head of Senior Recruitment.
United will also be seeking new regional ‘Heads of Emerging Talent’ who will scour the globe for elite prospects. In addition, they are looking for a number of other senior roles, each of which will report into director of recruitment Chris Vivell.
Insiders say the moves, which come following the arrival of co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos group, are part of an ongoing restructuring and modernisation of the club’s scouting network. They come following an era of overwhelmingly poor recruitment, which has been responsible in no small part for United’s under performance on the field in recent years.
Last season’s club-record 16th-placed finish and Europa League Final defeat means there will be no European football this year.
Last month, director of scouting Stephen Brown left Old Trafford after nine years with the club. Simon Wells, a scout brought in by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, is also thought to be under threat.
In a post on social media, Brown hinted at the scale of the departures. He warned of the ‘continued exits of scouts and recruitment analysts from the scouting department at Manchester United’. Credit: dailymail.co.uk
