Villan4Life Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Appointed ex Watford/Birmingham goalkeeper Tony Coton to help with goalkeeping alongside Parks. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-tony-coton-appointed-9053173?ICID=FB-Birm-avfc Tony Coton has been appointed as Aston Villa's specialist goalkeeping scout, according to a report by our sister title The Daily Mirror. Coton worked under Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United’s keeper coach for a decade and will be responsible for recruitment at every level. He will liaise with all of Villa’s goalkeeping coaches and will work closely with current head keeper coach Tony Parks. It had been reported that Coton was going to Villa Park as the club’s chief scout. But the Tamworth-born 53-year-old, who began his playing career with Birmingham before moving on to Watford, both Manchester clubs and Sunderland, will be responsible for recruiting future Villa No 1s. Coton had been working at Bolton as a scout, but is linking up again with Villa boss Tim Sherwood, a former team-mate at Watford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Ex blues? Get out of my club coton. Not welcome. In all honesty, have we really created a position for a goal keeping scout? Seems a bit pointless to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B94villa Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Deserves his own thread just for the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Fellow Tamworthian. I mostly remember him as Man City's keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Ferguson kept him around for years and worked with Schmeichel and Van Der Sar and he only left that job through injury. I think he could add something, maybe he can get Guzan watch some Van Der Sar videos about kicking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Interesting, plenty of people have remarked that Tony Parks is far more involved than you'd expect for a goalkeeping coach on the touchline, he's acting like first team coach so this appointment could lead to him maybe keeping him in that role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Seriously, how much work is there for a specialist goalkeeping scout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Seriously, how much work is there for a specialist goalkeeping scout? I imagine he just stares at the keeper the entire game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Is this the suspect from "scream 2" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 This kind of contradicts the reports yesterday that the summer plans are on hold, because of the likely hood of a takeover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Seriously, how much work is there for a specialist goalkeeping scout? I imagine he just stares at the keeper the entire game I think he was known for that sort of thing on and off the pitch in his days at Small Heath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Jobs for the boys, it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Might be an agreement that he does a bit of scouting for us now and again - but is not a full time employee........would seem a huge resource to have a dedicated goalkeeping scout.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 16, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16, 2015 Maybe he's helping with coaching as well. I've been amazed at how involved on match days Tony Parks is. He's at the egde of the technical area more than anybody else and seems to be constantly issuing instructions, which is odd for a goalkeeping coach. Maybe Parks is taking on more responsibility so we need someone else to work specifically with the goalkeepers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 You'd be surprised at how many scouts a Premier League club has to be honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Don't know about you lot but I want Villa to be signing the best goalkeepers we can at all levels, which is what the newspapers are saying Coton's role will be. No problem having a specialist, it definitely requires one. Full-time might be a bit much but we don't even know it is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 16, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16, 2015 Good point. If any position needs a specialist scout, it's goalkeeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Sounds like he coaches as well as scouting from people are saying, so I wonder if the role will involve a bit of both. Does this mean we're on the lookout for a new keeper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 well you can never not be on the lookout for improvement. Doesnt matter if your Guzan, Benteke or any other player. If possible we can get a better player for good value we should always explore options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 We likely need a replacement for steer. Doesn't seem to me like he's cut out for a to flight number one spot, even though he's young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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