Former Town full-back and long-serving academy staff member Scott Mitchell has been surprisingly axed from his head of player recruitment role at high-flying Wycombe Wanderers, despite having brought in a number of this season’s top performers, including Blues loanee Cameron Humphreys.
Mitchell, 39, joined the Chairboys, who are second in League One behind only big spenders Birmingham City, as their head of player recruitment ahead of 2023/24, joining up with his former Town teammate Matt Bloomfield, who is manager at Adams Park.
The departure, the result of a restructure by the club’s new owners, comes after Mitchell had been been responsible for bringing in a number of Wycombe’s more impressive recent signings, among them Humphreys, who has been nicknamed the ‘Suffolk Messi’ by Wycombe fans for his impressive displays for the Buckinghamshire side.
Last season, West Ham’s Freddie Potts was also brought in on loan with the midfielder going on to win the Players’ Player and Supporters’ Player of the Season gongs.
Mitchell was also responsible for recruiting this season’s eight-goal top scorer Richard Kone from non-league Athletic Newham in January 2023 with clubs in higher divisions now eyeing the 21-year-old.
Prior to joining the Chairboys, Ely-born Mitchell had been working as Town's head of academy recruitment, having made two senior starts and two sub appearances for the Blues under Joe Royle after coming through the academy.
Following spells in Scotland with Livingston, with Peterborough and in non-league, Mitchell returned to Town as an academy coach in 2012, later taking on a head of academy performance analysis role and then his recruitment position at Playford Road in October 2017.