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It's not been confirmed on the OS, but Andrew Stone has confirmed on his Twitter account (@ajstone24) that after 6 years at Southampton, he is the new Head of Performance Analysis & Technical Recruitment at Villa.

 

The end of Paddy Reilly, perhaps?

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Never heard of him but Southampton haven't been to shabby over that time. 

Welcome to the nut house.

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Nice. This is one piece of the puzzle, but with Xia's ambition, the other recruitment at the club, a couple of new signings and some dead wood being cut (not happened yet obv) things will start to look a lot better. In the words of John Lennon; it can't get no worse.

Welcome Andrew, could you start analysing and recruiting today please?

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cant be worse than that imbecile reilly. welcome aboard! Southampton have  a great track record of youngsters so hopefully this will be  a shrewd move

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4 minutes ago, withes_shin said:

Hopefully this is not the Andrew Stone off Pineapple Dance Studios!!

Just googled it, this is the Andrew Stone we've got from Southampton, so nothing to worry about:

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When you google 'Andrew Stone Southampton' there are no search results about Southampton football club. But then again I don't think there was much information on Almstadt either.

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16 minutes ago, withes_shin said:

Hopefully this is not the Andrew Stone off Pineapple Dance Studios!!

"Nah mate, the missus puts it on"

Sure ;)

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What a great appointment. Saints are going off the boil. We'll have a key figure from their promotion and prem league success and they can have eric black.

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Bloody kept this one quiet didn't they? Some very decent signings in here since he started with Southampton 6 years ago:

2015/16

Harry Lewis Shrewsbury Signed 01 Jul, 2015
Cuco Martina FC Twente £1,000,000 07 Jul, 2015
Jordy Clasie Feyenoord £8,000,000 15 Jul, 2015
Oriol Romeu Chelsea £5,000,000 12 Aug, 2015
Virgil van Dijk Celtic £11,500,000 01 Sep, 2015
Charlie Austin QPR £4,000,000 16 Jan, 2016
Nathan Redmond Norwich £10,000,000 25 Jun, 2016

2014/15

Isaac Nehemie Southampton   01 Jul, 2014
Dusan Tadic FC Twente £10,900,000 08 Jul, 2014
Graziano Pelle Feyenoord £8,000,000 12 Jul, 2014
Fraser Forster Celtic £10,000,000 09 Aug, 2014
Shane Long Hull £12,000,000 14 Aug, 2014
Florin Gardos Steaua £4,000,000 14 Aug, 2014
Sadio Mane RB Salzburg £11,800,000 01 Sep, 2014
Ryan Bertrand Chelsea £10,000,000 02 Feb, 2015
Juanmi Malaga £5,000,000 16 Jun, 2015
Cedric Soares Sp. Lisbon £4,700,000 18 Jun, 2015
Harry Lewis Shrewsbury Signed 01 Jul, 2015

2013/14

Dejan Lovren Lyon £8,500,000 14 Jun, 2013
Victor Wanyama Celtic £12,500,000 11 Jul, 2013
Pablo Osvaldo Roma £15,000,000 18 Aug, 2013

2012/13

Steve Davis Rangers Free 06 Jul, 2012
Nathaniel Clyne C Palace Signed 18 Jul, 2012
Paulo Gazzaniga Gillingham Signed 20 Jul, 2012
Emmanuel Mayuka Young Boys Signed 29 Aug, 2012
Maya Yoshida VVV Venlo Signed 30 Aug, 2012
Gaston Ramirez Bologna £12,000,000 31 Aug, 2012
Artur Boruc Fiorentina Free 22 Sep, 2012
Vegard Forren Molde Signed 18 Jan, 2013

2011/12

Jack Cork Chelsea Signed 11 Jul, 2011
Steve De Ridder De Graafschap Signed 22 Jul, 2011
Daniel Fox Burnley Signed 11 Aug, 2011
Jos Hooiveld Celtic Signed 31 Aug, 2011
Tadanari Lee Sanf Hiroshima Free 25 Jan, 2012
Billy Sharp Doncaster £1,800,000 30 Jan, 2012
Jay Rodriguez Burnley £6,000,000 10 Jun, 2012

2010/11

Danny Butterfield C Palace Free 17 Jul, 2010
Jonathan Forte Scunthorpe Signed 31 Jan, 2011
Richard Chaplow Southampton Signed 31 Jan, 2011
Jack Stephens Plymouth £150,000 21 Apr, 2011
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2 hours ago, Rob182 said:

It's not been confirmed on the OS, but Andrew Stone has confirmed on his Twitter account (@ajstone24) that after 6 years at Southampton, he is the new Head of Performance Analysis & Technical Recruitment.

You do suprise me :crylaugh:

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3 minutes ago, BOF said:

If we're bringing in Southampton staff who were in any way responsible for recruiting then that has to be great news. Quite how we pulled it off I don't know. This tells me that our project must genuinely be every bit as ambitious as we hope it is, if we can lure someone like that in our current predicament. Exciting times ahead *fingers crossed*

Large pay packet I would assume, and the promise of sustained budget for recruitment. Would have to be motivation for someone in that line of work surely.

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9 minutes ago, romavillan said:

Large pay packet I would assume, and the promise of sustained budget for recruitment. Would have to be motivation for someone in that line of work surely.

Yep I'd say the wage thing goes without saying, otherwise you stay put. But I still believe he would have to be in some way excited by the project being proposed too. 

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3 minutes ago, BOF said:

Yep I'd say the wage thing goes without saying, otherwise you stay put. But I still believe he would have to be in some way excited by the project being proposed too. 

Yeah, that's kinda what I meant abotu the sustained budget thing. It's a recruitment man's football manager wet dream.... "Take this shambles, I'll give you all the money you need, and turn them into a winning top flight side..."
 

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It can't be that much of coup can it, he's pretty much ungoogable. Even his twitter has very few followers, surely if he was that instrumental in Southampton's success a lot more of their fans would be following him.

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