saintnicoolas Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 So he's built his wooden box, attached his computer to it and painted it black-computer says…. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/544823/Spurs-chased-10M-Van-Dijk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 Spurs will face competition from Premier League rivals Swansea, Southampton, Newcastle, Arsenal and Manchester City for the 23-year-old All of the above clubs probably look more attractive than spuds right now but clearly if Citeh are really interested he will go there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 Once Mitchell has exhausted his hastily downloaded database he will find himself back at MK Dons. For every Wanyama signed during his sojourn there's an Osvaldo and then some... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 Reckon he's a bit of a Simon Clifford type fraud. No great loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 Head of recruitment in looking at the sane targets as his previous club shocker And to whitewash what he has done is just fickle fan crap tbh. He is highly thought of for a reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarniaSaint Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 Head of recruitment in looking at the sane targets as his previous club shocker And to whitewash what he has done is just fickle fan crap tbh. He is highly thought of for a reason No whitewash think he was more an organizer than the super finder of talent ..........that's my opinion anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 12 December, 2014 Share Posted 12 December, 2014 He is nothing without Les Reed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonist Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Head of recruitment in looking at the sane targets as his previous club shocker And to whitewash what he has done is just fickle fan crap tbh. He is highly thought of for a reason how did we get boruc, lovren, and osvaldo then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Mitchell pursuing him again? Right, so the player will sign for him, not the chairman, manager or club? Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 No whitewash think he was more an organizer than the super finder of talent ..........that's my opinion anyway. Les Reed and Martin Hunter's nickname for him was 'milk and two sugars Mitchell' and under Koeman his role was expanded to include waffles. At Spurs he has executive responsibility for their new state of the art Dolce Gusto machine. Credit where it's due... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 how did we get boruc, lovren, and osvaldo then? What are you on about ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 As I understand it, Mitchell headed up a team of several people who looked at every player everywhere and identified those who fitted a particular profile that suited us. So naturally he knows who we are interested in, but conversely we know who Spurs will be interested in based on current research. Spurs as a team will have both different positional needs to ours and different opinions about the sort of player personality and background to ours. Because of the managerial input, Spurs will be favouring Latin players particularly Spanish/Argentinian, whereas we will favour Dutch/Northern European players. Koeman gives us the edge over Van Dijk and Mitchell's previous involvement means very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Is that article supposed to imply the yids had never heard of Virgil Van Dijk before they appointed Paul Mitchell? If they had come across him on their scouting radar,as I'm sure they will have, then it hardly proves Mitchell to be a great coup for them, just the bloke with a glorified notepad, listing names and crossing them off again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Sounds like we ought to poach celtic's head of recruitment. Save ourselves a fortune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigsy Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Do Managers mostly sign players of their own nationality then? We have zero Dutch players and I think Spurs might be a little concerned that they have enough Latin types already. Mostly linked with Berahino, Jay Rod, Morgan none of whom fit the stereotype you have attached. Suppose you were one of the ones sick of Cortese buying all those Italians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Sounds like we ought to poach celtic's head of recruitment. Save ourselves a fortune .......and I 've read much dafter suggestions than that on here:o ......they seem to be able to sign good young talent at Celtic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Once Mitchell has exhausted his hastily downloaded database he will find himself back at MK Dons. For every Wanyama signed during his sojourn there's an Osvaldo and then some... I understood that the player data for the Black Box comes from the Saints' overseas / domestic scouting team. (as long as they remember who's paying their salaries), so that Mitchell may have a problem keeping it updated as ..a Sky Radio interview (with a former Spuds employee) I heard several weeks ago revealed that Spuds were the only Prem.side without a scouting network ...... ....as it has all been delegated to the foreign " whats his name?".. who squandered all of the £85 million Bale fee (and a bit more) .....in buying Soldado & Co. Time willl tell......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 As I understand it, Mitchell headed up a team of several people who looked at every player everywhere and identified those who fitted a particular profile that suited us. So naturally he knows who we are interested in, but conversely we know who Spurs will be interested in based on current research. Spurs as a team will have both different positional needs to ours and different opinions about the sort of player personality and background to ours. Because of the managerial input, Spurs will be favouring Latin players particularly Spanish/Argentinian, whereas we will favour Dutch/Northern European players. Koeman gives us the edge over Van Dijk and Mitchell's previous involvement means very little. I wasnt saying his involvement has any 'edge' FWIW, its just another completely unimaginative article. Mitchell would have spent the past 12 months looking at certain targets, some of which will be good enough for spurs, he has just got to white hart lane and so probably hasnt got time to look at new targets straight away, and so will utilise those he already knows. Those writing him off as just another bloke is a little laughable, he has a great name for himself in football circles and headed up much of what has been built from a recruitment point of view. Will he be a miss ? Yes I think he will, will we be ok ? Yes we will be absolutely fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonist Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 What are you on about ? sanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 sanity. What ? So a head of recruitment that moves from one prem club to another isnt likely to have similar players in mind ? If that isnt sanity it'll be good if you could explain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonist Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 What ? So a head of recruitment that moves from one prem club to another isnt likely to have similar players in mind ? If that isnt sanity it'll be good if you could explain sane targets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 sane targets Complete woooooosh for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumstead_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Head of recruitment in looking at the sane targets as his previous club shocker And to whitewash what he has done is just fickle fan crap tbh. He is highly thought of for a reason Well the press all credit him with Tadic and Pelle, which is obviously b*llsh*t - Koeman is the man. And no-one is mentioning Osvaldo, Ramirez, Mayuka...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Well the press all credit him with Tadic and Pelle, which is obviously b*llsh*t - Koeman is the man. And no-one is mentioning Osvaldo, Ramirez, Mayuka...... Lol So the good ones were the current managers players a d the bad ones were his and not the managers..... Righto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaSaint Posted 13 December, 2014 Share Posted 13 December, 2014 Let's hope he was instrumental in the signing of Mané and that he manages to sign some similar nuggets for Spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 Let's hope he was instrumental in the signing of Mané and that he manages to sign some similar nuggets for Spurs. Given that he was excellent against Spurs we could do worse than flog him to them at double the fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangy Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 Black box my arse. Have we actually signed someone from the "black box" that has been a absolute gem of a find ??? no I don't think so Tadic and Pelle are clearly Koeman buys,Mane & Gardos seem like the only black box finds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonist Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 Black box my arse. Have we actually signed someone from the "black box" that has been a absolute gem of a find ??? no I don't think so Tadic and Pelle are clearly Koeman buys,Mane & Gardos seem like the only black box finds Rodriguez maybe? newspaper articles indicated that Wanyama and Forster were his picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 Black box my arse. Have we actually signed someone from the "black box" that has been a absolute gem of a find ??? no I don't think so Tadic and Pelle are clearly Koeman buys,Mane & Gardos seem like the only black box finds It has been confirmed that Tadic was on our black box radar screen before Koeman joined, just that Koeman pushed it to conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 It has been confirmed that Tadic was on our black box radar screen before Koeman joined, just that Koeman pushed it to conclusion. we have had PLENTY of duds to say that the 'black box' and the magic around it, is not quite true. we have a success rate like most teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonist Posted 15 December, 2014 Share Posted 15 December, 2014 It has been confirmed that Tadic was on our black box radar screen before Koeman joined, just that Koeman pushed it to conclusion. One of the best players and the top assister in the dutch league was on our radar. ****ing patent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 16 December, 2014 Share Posted 16 December, 2014 good luck with that. Mane and Long for near on £25m dear god Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 17 December, 2014 Share Posted 17 December, 2014 good luck with that. Mane and Long for near on £25m dear god Crap Box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnicoolas Posted 4 January, 2015 Author Share Posted 4 January, 2015 http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2015/01/04/midfielder-is-paul-mitchells-priority-target-spurs-supremo-admir/ Ever on our radar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 4 January, 2015 Share Posted 4 January, 2015 good luck with that. Mane and Long for near on £25m dear god Want to reconsider Mane??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 4 January, 2015 Share Posted 4 January, 2015 Want to reconsider Mane??? Let's be honest here, he was hardly an unknown. Koeman already knew of him (and wanted him), plus he was also a transfer target for other teams long before he joined Saints. Having said that, I honestly think this "black box" seems to be more about personality profiling than finding new players. We seem to be looking for a certain type of player who is a team player, will grow/develop further and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted 4 January, 2015 Share Posted 4 January, 2015 good luck with that. Mane and Long for near on £25m dear god Don't agree about mane. Since he's gone upfront has scored every game and is only 22. We missed him today badly. Long however is pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnicoolas Posted 4 January, 2015 Author Share Posted 4 January, 2015 Jury's still out on mane for me, consistency is the key. Think he needs to beef up a tad and to stop falling over so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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