New Scouts to be appointed

[SB]

from James Pearce, Liverpool Echo

Liverpool FC are set to appoint Dave Fallows as head of scouting and recruitment as part of a double swoop on Manchester City.

Fallows will leave his role as first team scouting and recruitment co-ordinator with the Premier League champions to start work at Anfield.

The former Bolton Wanderers performance analyst will be joined by Barry Hunter, who will also quit City to be part of the new scouting set-up under manager Brendan Rodgers.

Since 2008 Hunter has been City’s chief scout for Italy, Switzerland and Russia


The 43-year-old former Northern Ireland defender, who has also worked as a scout for Blackburn and Norwich, knows Rodgers well from their days at Reading together.

Securing the services of Fallows and Hunter from City represents a major coup for Rodgers as he looks to put the staff in place to help him realise his vision for the club.

Liverpool declined to comment but it’s understood that Fallows will form part of the new technical team working with Rodgers after owners Fenway Sports Group shelved plans to appoint a sporting director.

There are likely to be further appointments to the roles of head of development and head of medicine.

Fallows was at Bolton before moving on to City where he was key to building the club’s international scouting infrastructure using state-of-the-art technology.

“My role is primarily to co-ordinate all aspects of our scouting department, which includes liaising with scouts, fixture planning, managing the constant stream of reports coming in and effectively linking everything together,” Fallows explained back in 2010.

“The traditional role of a scout, where they went to a match and kept all the knowledge in their head rarely exists in modern day scouting structures.”



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[Buzzo]

Phew, I was worried this wouldn't get its own thread. You beat me to it.

[baronvonskidmark]

So, should we admire FSG's flexibility and support of the manager, or worry that they have seemingly changed the direction that they had planned for the club's future?

[SB]

Phew, I was worried this wouldn't get its own thread. You beat me to it.

Worry no more my friend. no Benders here today

Dave Fallows, first team scouting and recruitment co-ordinator, and Barry Hunter, City’s scout for Italy, Switzerland and Russia, will leave the Etihad Stadium for Anfield. Fallows was formerly of Bolton Wanderers and will take up the post of head of scouting and recruitment, while Hunter, who has been with City since 2008, is a former Northern Ireland international who worked with Rodgers at Reading.

The Echo notes that Liverpool declined to comment further on either appointment but it is believed Fallows will make up part of the new technical team that will work with Rodgers on different aspects of the game. Also expected to be incoming are a new head of development and a head of medicine. The technical team was instituted in place of the sporting director model, which Rodgers insisted was altered if he was to leave Swansea City.

[Muddled]

Phew, I was worried this wouldn't get its own thread. You beat me to it.

Hahahaha.

Worry no more my friend. no Benders here today

Hahahaha[little wee]hahaha.

[Muddled]

David Fallows uses Post It notes. Tru fax.

[SB]

Hahahaha.



Hahahaha[little wee]hahaha.

Buzzo in lazy ******* shocker.

[saj]

Doesn't really fill me with confidence. The majority of City's signings have been ****e other than the big money ones which we can't afford anyway. But there you go. Would have been good if we can nab the one or ones who are doing the immense work at Newcastle

[Muddled]

Buzzo in lazy ******* shocker.

Errm ...

[Cough]Whoosh![/COUGH]

[TheElephantMan]

Which players other than massively expensive signings have City brought in during the last four years?

[Muddled]

Which players other than massively expensive signings have City brought in during the last four years?

Adam Johnson.

[Muddled]

Which players other than massively expensive signings have City brought in during the last four years?

It's a valid point though; with Man City's budget, the scouting department was pretty much redundant as they offered stupid money matched with stupid wages, as the scouts enacted their performance on Football Manager [insert year].

[dww]

So, should we admire FSG's flexibility and support of the manager, or worry that they have seemingly changed the direction that they had planned for the club's future?

I think we have to wait and see. If they have found a way to have a philosophy in terms of style of play that runs from the youth to first teams and a recruitment policy that enhances rather than disrupts that without a DoF then it should be applauded. If they have just appointed the next in a series of managers who comes in and wants to change all the staff from top to bottom of the club then its a bad idea.

Without an experienced football man in their inner circle I think appointing a DoF that could work for them and with a new manager was always a big ask. They may come back to having one over time - ideally promoting someone from within.

[SB]

Errm ...

[Cough]Whoosh![/COUGH]

[SB]

I heard a rumour that they were the only scouts that said Aqualini was ****e & wouldn't settle in the uk. That's why we signed them albeit a bit too late.

True story