Future recruitment team & strategy

[Zatara]

Fully expect to see more trading activity next summer, with sales funding further squad building. They have 12 months to work toward this and it will be interesting to see what they do. Judgement starts next window for me

Pretty much. Hard to fit the pieces together when the only defensive minded player weve signed is Aznou.

There will have to be another clearing of the decks with squad players having another year of their book value off and sales going towards PSR (or whatever new rules their may be).

Then a total defensive rebuild.

There's no way the gardening leave duo weren't involved.

You would expect that to be the case.

Interesting this...which means he would have been a Thelwell & Purdy recruitment.

Interesting that we've followed up our interest even after they've left.

The team that was working below Purdy are largely still all intact, so the work on targets etc that was done under Purdy and Thelwell is all still our intellectual property

It shouldn't be any surprise that we've gone after targets that we've been monitoring for some time.

Aznou and Barry have been on our radar for longer than Moyes has been back here.

We've employed a new data specialist, which is great, but that won't be solely used for recruitment. I'd expect that will help us with our own player development and performance analysis as well.

We might see a change of approach etc under the new recruitment management, but I think it's worth pointing out that the previous team had identified lots of good players, they just rarely had the money to get them.

Quite odd that Moyes made a point of saying that he wanted "robust" players who can play every week.

Then we hear about the likes of Ake and Chilwell being approached. Not to mention Merlin Rohl who has had multiple layoffs.

Is this the City or the previous regime's positive reports or down to Moyes?

Peculiar.

Also if weve been watching Rohl for a year (?) Diblings dad said the first interest was 3 weeks prior to the bid.

As far as I remember earlier in the summer I'm sure I read that Moyes was reviewing the list of targets that Thelwell had left.

That will be normal and even more so as they were together just under half a season. Would expect Thelwell, Purdy & the City guy would have documents with Moyes as well as new info from the team that remained in place.

Next summer we'll have a defence that probably will need 4+ players added and perhaps a defensive midfielder.

With the signings this summer, a little surprising if we got in the United & City guys that weve not seen anyone outside of the box aside from Aznou.