Adrian Esparraga - New Technical Scout

EQP · Feb 28, 2015

Tottenham have snapped up Malaga's former technical scout Adrian Esparraga to become the club's senior scout for southern Europe.

http://www.eatsleepsport.com/totten...enced-spanish-scout-1895989.html#.VPHZN9B6hAg

Sounds like Mitchell was the driving force behind this. Glad to see taking strides this season to improve our scouting.

Spursidol · Feb 28, 2015

SlumDilla said:
Tottenham have snapped up Malaga's former technical scout Adrian Esparraga to become the club's senior scout for southern Europe.

http://www.eatsleepsport.com/totten...enced-spanish-scout-1895989.html#.VPHZN9B6hAg

Sounds like Mitchell was the driving force behind this. Glad to see taking strides this season to improve our scouting.

Well spotted.

Interesting that the guy is 24 - so hasn't played much if any professional football ! But good to hear we are getting a scouting network together - false economy not to have one with the size of transfer fees and wages today as no scouting means we risk buying badly #magificentseven#

EQP · Feb 28, 2015

Spursidol said:
Well spotted.

Interesting that the guy is 24 - so hasn't played much if any professional football ! But good to hear we are getting a scouting network together - false economy not to have one with the size of transfer fees and wages today as no scouting means we risk buying badly #magificentseven#

Absolutely, and i could be mistaken but i do not remember us having any spanish scouts in the past. This will definitely help us snap up any potential youth players who might have slipped through the cracks (eg Bentaleb).

Strikeb4ck · Feb 28, 2015

So is he the one that found Isco?

ripley · Feb 28, 2015

adrianesparraga.com

StartingPrice · Feb 28, 2015

Saw this earlier - the question I have is how Mitchell and those he is hiring relate to Broomfield. It is less than a year ago that the club won out in re-signing him. According to LinkedIn his job title is consultant - is he having a supervisory role helping Mitchell et al establish a whole new network? Is he working as part of that network? Or is he working independently of that network.

Maybe someone who is in the know could spell it out for us

SlumDilla said:
Absolutely, and i could be mistaken but i do not remember us having any spanish scouts in the past. This will definitely help us snap up any potential youth players who might have slipped through the cracks (eg Bentaleb).

Just to be exact, and not saying you didn't know this: he is a Spaniard who is head of scouting for the whole of Southern Europe. Not sure whether you think that being Spanish means his focus will be solely or mainly on Spain - but, as said, it isn't.

DaSpurs · Feb 28, 2015

ripley said:
adrianesparraga.com

Seems he also develops software for this job. Would explain Mitchell's connection.

chinaman · Feb 28, 2015

One sprig of asparagus; two and more sprigs of esparraga. Good omen for finding many young sprigs.

gp13tot · Feb 28, 2015

chinaman said:
One sprig of asparagus; two and more sprigs of esparraga. Good omen for finding many young sprigs.

Spriggin hell

beats1 · Feb 28, 2015

Strikeb4ck said:
So is he the one that found Isco?

Not really, Isco wanted to go Malaga

He was known throughout spain as a top talent

Valencia wanted to keep him but he wanted Malaga to activate the clause so he could go home

Spursidol · Feb 28, 2015

StartingPrice said:
Saw this earlier - the question I have is how Mitchell and those he is hiring relate to Broomfield. It is less than a year ago that the club won out in re-signing him. According to LinkedIn his job title is consultant - is he having a supervisory role helping Mitchell et al establish a whole new network? Is he working as part of that network? Or is he working independently of that network.

Maybe someone who is in the know could spell it out for us

.

Broomfield is 64 - the role he was being offered by Arsenal was to work for Arsenal's Chief Scout Steve Rowley.

Maybe its as straightforward as Broomfield reaching an age where he doesn't want the hassle of a full time management role in charge but very happy to offer advice and scout top targets.

So maybe we've got a very modern 'Technical scout' in Mitchell using all the software stuff alongside a very old style scout - best of both worlds in getting views on whether to recruit a particular player. No more #magnificent seven# ?

DaSpurs · Feb 28, 2015

Spursidol said:
Broomfield is 64 - the role he was being offered by Arsenal was to work for Arsenal's Chief Scout Steve Rowley.

Maybe its as straightforward as Broomfield reaching an age where he doesn't want the hassle of a full time management role in charge but very happy to offer advice and scout top targets.

So maybe we've got a very modern 'Technical scout' in Mitchell using all the software stuff alongside a very old style scout - best of both worlds in getting views on whether to recruit a particular player. No more #magnificent seven# ?

Good shout actually. Is possible we have two entirely separate networks using the two respective styles which then compare notes and analyses.

EQP · Feb 28, 2015

StartingPrice said:
Saw this earlier - the question I have is how Mitchell and those he is hiring relate to Broomfield. It is less than a year ago that the club won out in re-signing him. According to LinkedIn his job title is consultant - is he having a supervisory role helping Mitchell et al establish a whole new network? Is he working as part of that network? Or is he working independently of that network.

Maybe someone who is in the know could spell it out for us

Just to be exact, and not saying you didn't know this: he is a Spaniard who is head of scouting for the whole of Southern Europe. Not sure whether you think that being Spanish means his focus will be solely or mainly on Spain - but, as said, it isn't.

Sure, but the fact that he is Spanish and worked as scout in Spain, a league known for producing technically talented players, he will undoubtedly have a idea of what young players who might not've fit in other teams in La Liga that might fit into our system and style of play.

StartingPrice · Feb 28, 2015

Spursidol said:
Broomfield is 64 - the role he was being offered by Arsenal was to work for Arsenal's Chief Scout Steve Rowley.

Maybe its as straightforward as Broomfield reaching an age where he doesn't want the hassle of a full time management role in charge but very happy to offer advice and scout top targets.

So maybe we've got a very modern 'Technical scout' in Mitchell using all the software stuff alongside a very old style scout - best of both worlds in getting views on whether to recruit a particular player. No more #magnificent seven# ?

Yeah, I was kinda hinting at this when I noted that Broomfield's official title, as given on LinkedIn is Consultant.

Don't mind having a Magnificent Seven again - just so long as a higher percentage are magnificent, this time..and there doesn't necessarily have to be seven

StartingPrice · Feb 28, 2015

SlumDilla said:
Sure, but the fact that he is Spanish and worked as scout in Spain, a league known for producing technically talented players, he will undoubtedly have a idea of what young players who might not've fit in other teams in La Liga that might fit into our system and style of play.

Sure...I don't doubt that and, obviously, we stand to benefit from it. Just wanted to make it clear to any interested parties, who may or may not have included you, that although he is Spanish and worked in Spain, his job title applies to the whole of Southern Europe

guiltyparty · Mar 1, 2015

SlumDilla said:
Tottenham have snapped up Malaga's former technical scout Adrian Esparraga to become the club's senior scout for southern Europe.

http://www.eatsleepsport.com/totten...enced-spanish-scout-1895989.html#.VPHZN9B6hAg

Sounds like Mitchell was the driving force behind this. Glad to see taking strides this season to improve our scouting.

That site needs to update our crest in their image library

NeverRed · Mar 1, 2015

ripley said:
adrianesparraga.com

Microsoft Office is still a skill?

Amo · Aug 26, 2015

So why is he at Betis less than half a year later?

Tom Pops · Aug 26, 2015

Amo said:
So why is he at Betis less than half a year later?

I don't believe there was any confirmation from the club, so we might have not ever actually appointed him in the first place.

THFCSPURS19 · Aug 26, 2015

Amo said:
So why is he at Betis less than half a year later?

Maybe homesickness?

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