Casting our net wider is a good idea.Let’s hope Jose can deliver.

Would be interesting to know a little more about him, in particular who was he involved in identifying for Utd?

Given his experience he can only be a benefit

Sounds interesting, we seem to be heavy on getting people that have been involved at Man U into the club, including one rather prominent member. Best of luck Jose and hope you can unearth a few gems.

If we can achieve our promotion goal,we could well attract 3/4 stars from the world cup,here's hoping.

The benchmark is to buy £6-15 million players who are world class, without time or even coaching and development. Truffert, Kroupe, Hyson, Carcedo, Pedro, Mbueno, Toney, Thiago, Jimenez, Semenyo, Kirkez, etc etc it’s an endless list and they cost less than Ogbenne, Muric, Sammie, Greaves, Walle, our list is also endless.

That’s the data model at Brighton and Bournemouth, Brentford, this sounds like a ‘throw back’ to a system that hasn’t been used at the elite clubs for decades, time will tell.

We’ve got a ‘band back together’ that played all the big stadiums, and never had a hit.

Bloom, Barber, Benham - I’m sorry, they’re FIVE levels above Mark Ashton. And their data, data, and more data model doesn’t look anything like this.

That’s the minimum level we need to reach. Mark looks what I suspect he is…, a successful guy at a level, that can’t scale, he’s never seen what elite looks like, and when he’s the only voice in the room (McKenna too isn’t elite at ID clearly) then it can only end badly .., when his ego won’t bring in other voices that are more dynamic and just people who won’t threaten his control, it can’t end well.

This is why bloom has barber - one person with full executive control.

What on earth were we thinking.

And no, win on Saturday and that’s NOT what elite looks like …, none of Brentford Brighton, are bad enough to win in the EFL.

Our owners really need to step up, we might get an opportunity to remedy all the mistakes of last season.

That is good news. We have paid top price for so many Championship players and lost a lot of money on many of them, so finding some bargains abroad who are good enough for the Premier League and/or can be sold on for a big profit has to be a priority.

Love to hear this. Super to see us still developing. This is the stuff that sets our foundations for years to come.

Good to see the club casting the net ever further to recruit the best players. Five years ago, who would have thought that we would have an Americas scout.

darkhorse28 (is that your IQ?) is anything in your little world ever positive? I know that we are all supposedly entitled to our own opinion but you are like a stuck record. Cheer up man, we are being promoted to the Prem again on Saturday!!!!

A good move by Town to set our net wider, what's not to like?

Huge appointment and great to see will be front of the queue for young talent.
The training ground is so spectacular, that to employ more professionals coaches, to develop talent will also contrive millions in transfer fees.
This is a tall the lifeblood of teams in cycles to maintain revenues through the divisions.

As much as Darkhorse tends to be negative, the responses to the latest post from others shows prejudice without thought. The crux of DHs post is that just being promoted to the Premier League is not reaching the elite level by any imagination. It certainly gives you a seat at the table, but work needs to be done still.
What DH should have then said instead of slagging off MA and KMc is it is great to see us looking at expanding our net to elevate our level.

darkhorse28, We'd personally have to differ on some of the " world class " players you list. Out of that lot I'd not have more than one, and I'd doubt even that. However, your point is well made, and better scouting is absolutely essential. Happily it does look like it's being attended to, though of course time will provide the proof or otherwise of that. It's clear you are not a fan of MA, that is of course an opinion you can rightfully hold as we all have opinions on things. One thing I would say however is that it's the owners that put him in both the CEO and Chairman positions. So if anyone is calling him out on that as some have, it's akin to blaming a piano player for playing a piece of music badly when it's an awful composition by a composer. IE, blaming the wrong person/people. I actually don't think it's a good idea for one person to have that much power and I wouldn't be too surprised if it gets addressed.

That was my first thought on a long post with a negative standpoint - world class? Crikey, not sure about that!!!

I don’t have time in my life for negativity but each to their own - I prefer more realism. Of course we have made mistakes, we all do but the hope is we can learn from them. This appointment will hopefully help improve recruitment.

At least half those players dark horse mentions spent quite a bit of time in the lower leagues, once again proving he's a clueless idiot

Saxonblue74

Your question is a very good one. Many have suggested that we need to look abroad for talented players, I fully support that idea. This has to be a very good and positive move towards achieving that goal.

Welcome aboard, José .

At this rate, they might need to do a HS3 trainline link between Manchester & Ipswich.

Darkhorse whilst I agree that recent employment at Old Trafford no longer qualifies as elite I wouldn't hold the same opinion of someone who worked at Camp Nou this decade. Not sure how employing a recent ex Barcelona scout counts as "a ‘throw back’ to a system that hasn’t been used at the elite clubs for decades"

Also didn't Ashton use Tony Bloom's sporting data company until Brighton, understandably, didn't want us to have the same access as them when we last got promoted to the PL?

Mark not sure which Championship level players we have lost money on under the current regime. We doubled our money on Delap. Got a profit of 87.5% on Omari & (if he counts) have sold Broadhead for at least 5 times what we paid for him (as well as the huge wealth that his goals in B2B Promotions have brought us). Yes I know there will be some sell on clauses to meet out of the profits for the first 2 but there will still be huge profits.
Yes Muric, Ogbene and Szmodics are out on loan and we might not get all our money back but any losses will still not wipe out the profits mentioned above.
The other big money signings are styill in the current playing squad and if they can get it over the line in Saturday the likes of Philogene, Clarke, Greaves and O'Shea will have earnt their own fees back and more with the PL pot of gold next season.

But yes great to see us expand our network into the MSL and Latin American leagues. Hope we can pick up some bargins who are good enough to keep us up and earn huge fees when their time to leave Town comes around.

Be nice to see us develop our own players, when was the last one to come through the ranks ?

Darren Bent is the last decent player to come through our ranks. He retired in 2019.

Academy has been non existent for a number of years of any real quality.

It's good that the net is being cast further, question is , is he any good at finding talent & did he find any while at Utd ? or is it another case of better the devil you know?