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You're right. The club will have databases and databases full of players, their age, height, weight, position etc etc. if they want a like for like replacement they'll correlate the statistics to find a player as close to the one departing as possible. If not, they do things differently. I'm...

He's effectively in charge of the Scouts so yes he probably does send them to watch specific players/teams. This would be only on someone's recommendation (another "football person" or agent etc) or on the basis of statistics compiled on computer programs though. He wouldn't watch a game himself...

Don't remember him doing back. Although I could be wrong.

I don't assert that I have 'inside knowledge'. Just a bit of an understanding of the recruitment process combined with the information that was readily available. Karanka and Mourinho were close at Madrid so I imagine that any loan out of Chelsea into the championship would've been run through...

DB doesn't identify players. It's his job the negotiate the deals and to allocate the budget where he deems fit. This year we missed out on the majority of our primary targets and were forced into the loan market as a result. Whether they were underwhelmed by our new manager or not could have...

ZA left of his own accord before Poyet was dismissed as far as i understand.

He is not tasked with identifying players. His scouts do that. They sit between them and decide who is the best fit in a certain position out of the players they have identified and prioritise them accordingly. Burke decides who he can afford and which positions to prioritise etc. For example...