McKenna: Court Will Help Club's Recruitment Department Grow and Develop
Friday, 26th Sep 2025 16:43

Blues boss Kieran McKenna hopes new director of recruitment Mick Court will grow and develop that area of the club.

Court joined Town this week following close to 17 years working at Manchester United, for the last six as technical chief scout.

Prior to his time at Old Trafford, he had two years working at Watford as first-team performance analyst during Blues chairman and CEO Mark Ashton’s stint in charge of the Hornets.

McKenna says although he knows Court, he didn’t work directly with him during his time at United.

“Hopefully he will help us in that area,” he said. “He’s not someone I have had much of a working relationship with, to be honest.

“As I’ve said before, with recruitment at Manchester United, I had next to zero input in. I knew of Mick but didn’t have a working relationship with him.

“He is a good guy. Mark has a much longer relationship with him from Watford and he has kept in contact with him for so many years.

“Mick has had a good career with lots of experiences. It’s an area we need to push forward in and grow and develop in and I’m sure he will come in and help us.”

Meanwhile, McKenna says he has spoken to former skipper Sam Morsy this week with the Egypt international understood to have left Kuwait SC after only two months.

However, the Blues boss felt it wasn't his place to talk about the issue: “I spoke to him a little bit this week, that’s nothing out the ordinary.

“It’s not for me to comment on that situation. I’ve been keeping contact with Samy so to speak to him this week was normal.”

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cartman1972 added 16:54 - Sep 26 See you January Mr Morsy
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tetchris added 17:01 - Sep 26 Maybe morsy could come back in January in a coaching role?
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Carberry added 18:44 - Sep 26 “Hopefully he will help us in that area,” hardly a glowing tribute. Don't you want the manager to say he's an outstanding individual who will take us into the next phase with his reputation for finding great talent. Sounds like he's putting a bit of distance between himself and the new man. Let's hope he's not just one of Ashton's cronies.
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armchaircritic59 added 18:52 - Sep 26 Carberry, he's already said that he doesn't really know him, only of him, so he's not in hardly any more of a position to judge, than you or I. Time will tell, as it always does.
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blues1 added 19:18 - Sep 26 Carberry. As always, cant wait to find a reason to criticise. Ifcyoud read the story properly you'd know why KMK said it the way he did
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Carberry added 20:07 - Sep 26 And you blues1 just don't read between the lines do you. Keep tugging your forelock.
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darkhorse28 added 10:13 - Sep 27

If the limit of our potential is Marks address book, and it measurably is, it’s not great is it, not elite, not a vision, not a strategy.

Not Marks fault at this point. A vacuum above him, no football agency ot accountability, it’s SUCH a woeful way to become ‘elite’.

Word like ‘hope’ at the point of appointment, we should be 100% what he brings.., which is 6 recent years of one of the the worst recruitment projects in world football, where he either added value, or chose to stay in a job where he added little.

We so need a reset, and it starts with the ownership,

We need football people, with agency and accountability.

We also need nodding dog supporters, who decided Ashton was world class after promotion, to wake up and smell the coffee.

The club and its long term future IS more important than validating that decision, and having to accept, saying McKenna and Ashton were elite, was just plain WRONG, not terrible, not bad, actually really good, just a billion miles from elite.

Too many egos on here, can’t process they might have made a mistake, even faced with 44 games evidence - the club comes second to their egos and clawing need for validation.

Ashton is poor…, and fascinating to see McKenna not index himself to this appointment.

The cracks are showing…, if one go’s, the. It’s need to go …, again.., that’s not a strategy to run a succesful team.., it’s myopic, short term, chaos and panic.

With the quality we have in this group, we should be winning games doing handstands .., hopefully that starts today.