NurembergVillan Posted February 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2015 1) Isn't it Reilly? 2) Wasn't he still at Liverpool when we signed Westwood and Benteke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 1) Isn't it Reilly? 2) Wasn't he still at Liverpool when we signed Westwood and Benteke? 1. According to his LinkedIn account and most media reports it's Riley. 2. Left for Liverpool after the signing of Benteke and westwood, returned just before christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted February 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2015 Good work! My Google results (albeit brief!) only dug up about his role in hiring the manager. Well done to him then if he's been involved in those signings too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 when i googled the name i came up with a folk singer.. hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I wonder if he was involved in the signing of Bennett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Apologies if there is another thread. Did not see it. Mods please delete this thread. Edited February 17, 2015 by omariqy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Did he have anything to do with Gil, or wasn't he back with us when he was scouted? Not that it matters particularly, it's just that if he's unearthed a few gems like that then who know what he'll get in the future. I've read online in his first spell he spotted Benteke and suggested him to Lambert!! and elsewhere that he also spotted Gil (As he arrived back from Liverpool before Christmas) Again not 100% sure if this info is correct just passing on what I have read on other forums. Well Sky reported that he had returned for the January window (although in common with the Birmingham Mail, they spell his name wrong!) so the assumption must be, yes, he spotted Gil. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9603872/aston-villa-chairman-randy-lerner-gives-the-go-ahead-for-january-transfers Aston Villa's chief executive Tom Fox has revealed that Randy Lerner will be looking to invest in new players during the January transfer window. Villa's chairman is understood to have found a new ambition for Paul Lambert’s side, despite putting the club up for sale over the summer. Paddy Reilly has been drafted in as the club’s director of recruitment with the full backing of Lerner, who is willing to provide cash with long-term goals in mind. His Liverpool link maybe explains why they thought the late bid for Lambert (Ricky) might be on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Someone on H&V posted about him and knows him. Looks like he has worked his way up the ladder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) OK, just looking at his employment dates with us and Liverpool, as shown on LInkedIn, here is a list of the players who came to each club while he was head of recruitment/scouting at each club. Not saying he was necessarily responsible for scouting all of these, in particular the July 2011 ones when he was new to the post (having been Head of performance analysis at Villa before then) Head of Recruitment & Analytics Aston Villa July 2011 – November 2012 Shay Given Charles N'Zogbia Alan Hutton Enda Stevens Karim El Ahmadi Brett Holman Matthew Lowton Ron Vlaar Joe Bennett Christian Benteke Jordan Bowery Ashley R Westwood Scouting Coordinator Liverpool November 2012 - [?December 2014?] Daniel Sturridge Philippe Coutinho Luis Alberto Iago Aspas Simon Mignolet Joao Teixeira Kolo Toure Mamadou Sakho Tiago Ilori Kevin Stewart Rickie Lambert Adam Lallana Emre Can Lazar Markovic Dejan Lovren Divock Origi Alberto Moreno Perez Mario Balotelli Javi Manquillo (loan) Head Of RecruitmentAston Villa [?December 2014] - present Carles Gil Scott Sinclair (loan) Obviously working with a bigger budget at Liverpool but not a bad track record! Edited February 17, 2015 by briny_ear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Edit Edited February 17, 2015 by briny_ear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Very influential person I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villanmac Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Interesting that we were linked a lot in the italian press with coutinho and then a month or so after Reilly joined Liverpool they bought him. That could well be one of his. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Interesting that we were linked a lot in the italian press with coutinho and then a month or so after Reilly joined Liverpool they bought him. That could well be one of his. It's Riley. Good spot though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Sherwood got the boot and so should u. I blame the two of you for where we are. The famous transfer comitte must all carry white sticks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwj Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I assume we're utilising this by all the slagging off over "data" he's getting in the media: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/10120950/wyscout-the-scouting-platform-used-by-arsenal-manchester-united-and-others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) It is one thing spotting talent it is quite another buying players for your needs. there are many motives for buying players and ways for acquiring them. we have seen in clear evidence teams from below us come past like a steam train and while we busy ourselves bitching about how much money we are disadvantaged by.......these teams just get on with it by applying industry nous and prudent decisions. we have an academy revered in some quarters but in reality produces championship players at best....other teams like Everton & Southampton eclipse us for quality. I'm not trying to be negative, but we need to wake up and know we are not very good at recruitment. Edited January 7, 2016 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissmith921 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Southamptons youth academy is phenomenal for quality - but they spend a monster amount. They have youth teams situated all over the country - they pick up players everywhere and find gems. They recruited (15 years ago) the best youth coaches to do this and spent a fortune setting it up. Ours is still very much as it has been - using locally based kids mainly and then add in when reaching U17+. We're behind the times now in regards of this - our youth academy isn't as revered as it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, mwj said: I assume we're utilising this by all the slagging off over "data" he's getting in the media: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/10120950/wyscout-the-scouting-platform-used-by-arsenal-manchester-united-and-others So a guy living in Italy wakes up one morning and hits on an idea for creating a footballers database and calls it Wyscout.....fine......and then we all buy in to that, lazy scouting. Not much different from the modern method of buying off the internet....fine too, but has its limitations. .....but do we REALLY know what we are buying, stats are OK up to a point, but not the complete low down. but there is a trade off for speed.....it's called quality and trust. there has been a tried and tested system for years and it has served us well.....It's like a ripple effect the further afield you go the more likely it is to struggle for loyalty and passion and more likely to have to pay through the nose. The Gary Shaws and Keith Leonard's must still be out there. We simply haven't got the funds to make the amount of mistakes the rich clubs can and unfortunately have evidence to prove it. we need to get more right than wrong.....that simply hasn't happened. Edited January 7, 2016 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Sounds like a well cushty job! I want to get paid to watch loads of football and then offer up my suggestions with little come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaCas Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 20 minutes ago, TRO said: So a guy living in Italy wakes up one morning and hits on an idea for creating a footballers database and calls it Wyscout.....fine......and then we all buy in to that, lazy scouting. Not much different from the modern method of buying off the internet....fine too, but has its limitations. .....but do we REALLY know what we are buying, stats are OK up to a point, but not the complete low down. but there is a trade off for speed.....it's called quality and trust. there has been a tried and tested system for years and it has served us well.....It's like a ripple effect the further afield you go the more likely it is to struggle for loyalty and passion and more likely to have to pay through the nose. The Gary Shaws and Keith Leonard's must still be out there. We simply haven't got the funds to make the amount of mistakes the rich clubs can and unfortunately have evidence to prove it. we need to get more right than wrong.....that simply hasn't happened. I understand the passion in your post but I don't understand what you are suggesting to make things better?? What is this tried and trusted system that you are recommending?? I'd love it if the academy could produce another Gary Shaw but they don't come along that often. I also think that things have moved on to a point where the jump from non-league to Premiership is just too great. I'm sure you'll quote Vardy back at me but I think that he represents a one-off rather than a rich seam of non-league talent ready to be mined. Personally I don't think that the quality of the recruits is as bad as the lack of balance and thought when putting them together into a squad - I place most of the blame with Sherwood for this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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