Academy Working Group

[Master Bates]

Sounds interesting

 

https://www.inter.it/en/news/67365/inters-elite-academy-involved-in-a-working-group-with-other-european-clubs

[tajjuk]

Does sound promising, always have admired Bilbao and their academy has a good track record.

[trousers]

Looks good. Surprised the club hasn't done any publicity on this initiative though (to my knowledge?). Seems like the sort of thing they would usually shout from the roof tops.

[Badger]

Southampton were represented by Edd Vahid, Assistant Academy Manager, Robin Nicholls, Academy Operations Manager, and Kristjan Markovic, European Operation Officer.

 

Hadn't heard of these characters before reading that. Wonder what our European Operation Officer does for us, is he the head of scouting in Europe for the Academy ?

[Master Bates]

I'm assuming it's the same:

 

http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-official-makes-clear-extraordinary-story-influence-transfer-policy/

[Master Bates]

https://www.inter.it/en/news/2021/01/22/elite-academy-inside-the-pitch-event.html

[Daft Kerplunk]

On 18/04/2019 at 19:53, Badger said:

 

Hadn't heard of these characters before reading that. Wonder what our European Operation Officer does for us, is he the head of scouting in Europe for the Academy ?

No, looks at which tournaments academy teams should play in, and then gets teams to come to Southampton.