Steve Hitchen quits Spurs recruitment role amid Everton interest

[mawspurs]

Steve Hitchen has resigned from his scouting and recruitment post at Tottenham and is under consideration for a similar role at Everton, who are restructuring under the new manager, Frank Lampard.

Source: Guardian

 

[whitechina]

Leaving only Paratici in charge.
I wonder if Everton (if he goes there) will suddenly get loads of younger players in?
It'll be interesting if anything comes out ib the press after his NDA finishes about missed players.

 

[Timberwolf]

"So Steve, why did you leave Spurs?"

 

[grittyspur1]

Shocking news (not)!

 

[dontcallme]

Read on several occasions that he was highly rated by our board and that on a few occasions his suggestions were ignored. But then recruitment during his time here has been poor.

Impossible to know how much he is responsible for but let's hope we turn it around on the purchasing side soon.

 

[Japhet]

Don't think Conte's at all interested in the development side. Shame to lose him but he's wasting his time here.

 

[gregga]

Recruitment under his watch has been abysmal

 

[newbie]

Recruitment under his watch has been abysmal

Have you read the athletic article? I’m not to sure on our director of football either, tbh nor are the athletic!

I was thinking the same, but we did seem to identify good targets we just didn’t sign them early enough.

Tbh our recruitment and transfer desicions have been shocking since Son, (mora possible)

Every widow it’s the same story we put in a big bid fir a player to no avail. Finish the window with a profit or even, so it’s hard to tell if the problem is not hirer up, or if it’s a PR smoke screen to show fans we are trying, but really we are not! Yes we brought big in a couple of windows.

Maybe Hitchens was or was t the problem hard to know. I wonder if he was backed, and if we had gone for more emerging talent with a longer term statergy rather than blow it on los celso, and ND we would have been better off?

Ofc hindsight it’s a wonderful thing, we just seem rubbish at spending in the next bracket.

 

[Buggsy61]

Even though Conte probably isn’t that interested in the seedlings that might be good in time ie more interested in the here and now surely the club still needs someone working in the background for the future with or without Conte.
Be interesting to see who (if anyone) we bring in as a replacement.

 

[carpediem991]

We need to mix up or scouting and approach of getting new players him. We can hardly judge if he was completely useless or unlucky.
But it was obviously not working and we got horrific results out of that department.

Not having too much trust in Paratici, but time for a wake up call here.

 

[parj]

I believe our policy shift to ready made players has failed miserably. We were started to build a foundation of first team players being replaced by young, hungry players who wanted to prove themselves. We got so obsessed by squad depth that we signed players that somehow passed medicals but are always injured or unfit.

The biggest problem is we now sign players for 18 month managers. That's a massive problem. We need to hire managers that play the style of football we want so the players stay relevant and not a new rebuild every 18 months

 

[FloridaSpur]

There is a God after all.

 

[jolsnogross]

Paratici may be no better, but that's not a reason to lament this guy's departure. Hes performed poorly and it's good he's gone.

A lot of recruiters and DoF types are just empty suits. Liverpool's player recruitment has been exemplary lately and I'm sure Klopp has a big part in that. We need to be more like them.

 

[Swalien]

Do we have a list of his signings? I don’t know why we don’t employ one of those football manager games experts. They would have a lot better knowledge of youth prospects and wonder kids before they happen.

 

[GutBucket]

Do we have a list of his signings? I don’t know why we don’t employ one of those football manager games experts. They would have a lot better knowledge of youth prospects and wonder kids before they happen.

IIRC Mourinho basically confirmed that Rodon and Bergwijn were his signings, hard to say who else and what were his restrictions when it comes to transfer fees and wages.

 

[spursbhoy67]

Do we have a list of his signings? I don’t know why we don’t employ one of those football manager games experts. They would have a lot better knowledge of youth prospects and wonder kids before they happen.

So let's go and sign Tariq Lamptey. 50m in transfer fee, 25m plus bonuses in wages over a five year contract, 5-10m signing on fee depending on status of his contract and bonuses expected at BHA, image rights and a tax bonus for living in London compared to the southeast. That puts the deal at 100m approximately.

Name the clubs that can afford that right now.

Hitchen worked to a budget and a tiered system. Rodon would have been a tier three player, low fees, investing in the future, home grown British talent. Signing him allows for more money spent elsewhere and perhaps he develops. It worked for the likes of Dele Alli. We signed him for as the song goes "5 mil" while Arsenal spent huge money and wages o a proven World Cup winner in Ozil.

I am not a Hitchen fan, understand his role a bit, but do feel that someone in the apartment needed to fall on their sword. It was not going to be Daniel Levy.

Watch Hitchen go to Newcastle and buy Lamptey and a few other of our targets that we could not get over the line. Their financial structure will allow him more purchasing power. However, like the guys at Chelsea and City, he will have the time to get things wrong. At clubs like Spurs you need to get these deals right.