Paul Mitchell Joins Tottenham

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Daniel Levy's massive restructuring programme at Tottenham has started with an attempt to bring in Southampton’s head of recruitment Paul Mitchell.
The Spurs chairman, furious with the team’s attitude in the club’s 2-1 defeat to Stoke at White Hart Lane on Sunday, has made it known there will be major changes of personnel in the coming weeks.
Mauricio Pochettino worked with Mitchell, very much man of the moment after his remarkable success recruiting players for Southampton, at St Mary’s last season.

Pochettino, who admitted he was under massive pressure to change the culture at the club after Sunday’s defeat, is in favour of the move for Mitchell.
The Southampton manager worked with him at St Mary’s last season and has made it known to Levy that he trusts Mitchell’s judgement of players.
Mitchell is very such the eyes and ears at Southampton and he is largely credited behind the scenes at the club for their hugely successful recruitment policy.
Southampton are second in the Barclays Premier League after an extraordinary start to the season under new coach Ronaldo Koeman.
They will fight to keep Mitchell, a former professional player with Wigan and MK Dons, on the south coast despite Tottenham’s advances.
Mitchell, 33, travels the world for Southampton and is credited with the majority of incoming transfers since his arrival at the club two years ago.
Levy is determined to shake up Tottenham’s backroom team and has already started to make changes following the club’s poor start to the season in the Barclays Premier League.
Former Spurs midfielder Steffen Freund has now been shifted to his third position at White Hart Lane in less than a year.
Freund, who was headhunted from a good job at the German football federation, was a coach under Andre Villas-Boas, but was sidelined at the start of his second season at Spurs.
He was eventually given another coaching role, but is now in the position of club ambassador after Pochettino made it known he wanted to work with his own coaching staff.
Freund was sent to China two weeks ago as part of a marketing exercise and has only just returned to London.


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[TaoistMonkey]

Whilst you're talking about southampton...

Ouch!!

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Whilst you're talking about southampton...

Ouch!!

Oh well, that's us out of the running.

 

[worcestersauce]

See what hapens when Comoli has a pop at our scouting network; we go out and buy someone elses

 

[Blackcanary]

Whilst you're talking about southampton...

Ouch!!

He'd be a great signing...but he does seem like a bit of a dick, doesn't he?

 

[HighVoltage]

I've just read a Guardian article about the Saints new training ground, philosophy etc.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...eaping-rewards-philosophy-new-training-ground

Here is a few quotes that caught my eye:

One could, of course, spend £30m on a single marquee player. Yet Les Reed, Southampton’s executive director of football, is looking to the future. “I think it’s definitely the best kind of investment,” he says. “One player has a shelf life. What happens when he goes? You have to buy another player. You’re continually spending that kind of money and turning it over on importing players, where the investment here could be for the next 50 years. Instead of buying one player, we produce five players

“The player profiling is bespoke to Southampton,” says Paul Mitchell, Southampton’s head of recruitment. “Really we try to interline our recruitment with our philosophy. It’s important our players play in our system and in our style and cope with the demands of the manager and the coaching staff. Our lists aren’t endless. It’s not every player that can play in our style but we look for the best fit for us when we put together our recruitment targets.

“It wasn’t a coincidence,” Reed says. “It wasn’t a toss of a coin – ‘We’ll go for Koeman. Oh, we’ve hit the jackpot.’ It was a profiling process. That’s why I took my time. People were getting frustrated – ‘Club’s gonna implode. They can’t find a manager, who wants to go to Southampton when it’s all going to collapse?’ But it wasn’t. It was doing the same thing we do with players: due diligence, research, make sure you are going to make the right decision, not make a mistake.

“What’s satisfying is that what we call the Southampton Way worked. Keep your focus, don’t panic, you know you’ve got systems and processes in place. There’s no knee-jerk reaction here. Stick to it. See it through. What’s satisfying is we’ve done that and it’s come to fruition. Whether the guys who’ve gone look back and go, ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have left,’ it doesn’t really bother us.”

“The aspiration is to be there at the top and compete with the best. That’s what we want the players to buy into when they sign here at nine years of age, not to go to a bigger club or more successful club and go on loan into League One. We want them to believe they can come from there up to here and the next edition we’ll be down in reception with the trophy cabinet.”

 

[danielneeds]

If we are going for him, I wonder how does it fit with Broomfield? Plus, we would have to offer this guy a big contract to leave the job security of the Saints and enter our choppier waters.

 

[thinktank]

He'd be a great signing...but he does seem like a bit of a dick, doesn't he?

Exactly what we need.

 

[Blackcanary]

Exactly what we need.

Well no, we need people who'll pull the team together and lead, not people whose main focus is always themselves...

(Apologies Morgan, you may actually be delightful but merely rather blunt in real life).

 

[thinktank]

Well no, we need people who'll pull the team together and lead, not people whose main focus is always themselves...

(Apologies Morgan, you may actually be delightful but merely rather blunt in real life).

Well, I'm not suggesting he be a dick to his teammates, naturally.

Most of our decent players will have aspirations to climb to higher clubs, at least he's out in the open with it so there'd be no surprises. If we want a player like him to come and stay then we put proper players around him to complement him, simple.

What you can infer from his attitude is he's frank and doesn't fanny around - straight to the point.

Absolutely need that.

 

[Mr Pink]

Whilst you're talking about southampton...

Ouch!!

Jesus, what a mood lifter!! lol.

Seriously though, I would say Pochettino has been told he's getting who he wants now - and MS has been informed that we're going big for him in January.

Levy has to back Pochettino or he'll end up having to get rid of him in all likelihood, which isn't going to reflect well on our dear leader.

We'll be paying him more here at Spurs, so for people who'll say why would he want to leave, well that's one big reason right there. We're also in London, and despite our grim position at the moment, there is still a a lot to be optimistic about for the future.

The midfield needs sorted, so if we have to spend 25 million to get him in January so be it.

 

[only1waddle]

In reality we have needed a guy like this for sometime now, the common sense and reasoning behind both player and manager recruitment is quite refreshing to read, loved the line about everything is bespoke to Southampton, sadly I just don't see Levy being able to trust someone and keep his real life FM fetish at bay.

 

[shelfmonkey]

I've just read a Guardian article about the Saints new training ground, philosophy etc.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...eaping-rewards-philosophy-new-training-ground

Here is a few quotes that caught my eye:

One could, of course, spend £30m on a single marquee player. Yet Les Reed, Southampton’s executive director of football, is looking to the future. “I think it’s definitely the best kind of investment,” he says. “One player has a shelf life. What happens when he goes? You have to buy another player. You’re continually spending that kind of money and turning it over on importing players, where the investment here could be for the next 50 years. Instead of buying one player, we produce five players

“The player profiling is bespoke to Southampton,” says Paul Mitchell, Southampton’s head of recruitment. “Really we try to interline our recruitment with our philosophy. It’s important our players play in our system and in our style and cope with the demands of the manager and the coaching staff. Our lists aren’t endless. It’s not every player that can play in our style but we look for the best fit for us when we put together our recruitment targets.

“It wasn’t a coincidence,” Reed says. “It wasn’t a toss of a coin – ‘We’ll go for Koeman. Oh, we’ve hit the jackpot.’ It was a profiling process. That’s why I took my time. People were getting frustrated – ‘Club’s gonna implode. They can’t find a manager, who wants to go to Southampton when it’s all going to collapse?’ But it wasn’t. It was doing the same thing we do with players: due diligence, research, make sure you are going to make the right decision, not make a mistake.

“What’s satisfying is that what we call the Southampton Way worked. Keep your focus, don’t panic, you know you’ve got systems and processes in place. There’s no knee-jerk reaction here. Stick to it. See it through. What’s satisfying is we’ve done that and it’s come to fruition. Whether the guys who’ve gone look back and go, ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have left,’ it doesn’t really bother us.”

“The aspiration is to be there at the top and compete with the best. That’s what we want the players to buy into when they sign here at nine years of age, not to go to a bigger club or more successful club and go on loan into League One. We want them to believe they can come from there up to here and the next edition we’ll be down in reception with the trophy cabinet.”

Well that tells me it should be Les Reed Levy should going after, good ol' Danny boy, he really knows what he's doing, doesn't he!!

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Well no, we need people who'll pull the team together and lead, not people whose main focus is always themselves...

(Apologies Morgan, you may actually be delightful but merely rather blunt in real life).

Have you seen anything to the contrary from Schneiderlin on the pitch?

 

[Mr Pink]

Should we create a new MS thread, or resurrect the old one?

Jesus that would really cheer me up to be honest.

 

[Blackcanary]

Have you seen anything to the contrary from Schneiderlin on the pitch?

Not really - but I think saying stuff like that is damaging to morale and shows a disrespect to Soton and their fans. We'd be furious if one of ours came out with that.

ETA: Sorry chaps, I seem to have derailed the thread...

 

[danielneeds]

Should we create a new MS thread, or resurrect the old one?

Jesus that would really cheer me up to be honest.

We won't be spending £30m quid on him in Jan - so why bother frankly?

 

[Mr Pink]

We won't be spending £30m quid on him in Jan - so why bother frankly?

Maybe not that amount, but its possible we'll go for him if we sell some players. And I would say there's a distinct possibility that we'll cut our losses on a few this January - certainly in the summer, ie whatever is spent in January could be recouped then.

 

[only1waddle]

Should we create a new MS thread, or resurrect the old one?

Jesus that would really cheer me up to be honest.

Still think the Goons are more likely if Wenger is under pressure, they are in desperate need for a player like him, even more than us.

 

[danielneeds]

Maybe not that amount, but its possible we'll go for him if we sell some players. And I would say there's a distinct possibility that we'll cut our losses on a few this January - certainly in the summer, ie whatever is spent in January could be recouped then.

Don't to it to yourself, they won't sell for a penny less than £27m, they don't have to, Is he really going to agitate for a move when they are far more involved in the CL race than us? Not happening, period.