New Scout

[Lee909]

paul joyce @pjoyceexpress

 

Former England defender Jonathan Woodgate joins Liverpool as a scout. He will focus on Spain and Portugal

 

5:47 AM - 11 Aug 2016

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Interesting

Dont see many ex footballers getting into scouting these days. Good luck to him

[Russ Atmosphere]

Couldn't do much worse than his predecessor to be fair.

[Lee909]

True

 

[Unrighteous]

Hope he finds us some gems.

[Frankenhooker]

I bet he snaps a hamstring just stood on the sidelines.  Could of been a class defender if it weren't for injuries.

 

Good luck to him, always handy to have a different perspective I suppose.

[cloggypop]

Hope he doesn't join in any racist attacks while he's working for us.

[Gym Beglin]

What a fucking odd acquisition.

 

Presume he knows someone in the coaching team, or the 'committee'.

 

Scouts usually get brought in because they ha d a track record of spotting talent, but Woodgate doesn't seem to have that? Ergo, his judgement must be trusted by someone who knows him personally.

[Paul]

Or maybe he has a really strong track record that you don't know about. How many other current scouts can you name for Liverpool or anyone else without recourse to Google?

[SlugTrail]

having played for madrid i would hope he might have good connections over in spain.

[JagSquared]

Must be a great gig being a scout. Getting paid to travel the world watching football. Piece of piss.

[dylstar]

He more than anyone should be able to identify a half decent left back for us as well, seeing he played his whole career at the back when he wasn't injured.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Fuck knows how much all this shite cost in transfer/loan fees:

 

Iago Aspas, Luis Alberto, João Carlos Teixeira, Tiago Ilori, Lazar Markovic, Nuri Sahin, Javier Manquillo and Aly Cissokho 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

He hasn't wasted squillions on shite yet, so he's our best ever scout.

[mattyq]

My mate went to the same school as him and drank in the same pub in Yarm

Let's just hope he's grown up and got over his issues

Strange choice

[El Rojo]

Yarm? Ah!

[Gym Beglin]

Or maybe he has a really strong track record that you don't know about. How many other current scouts can you name for Liverpool or anyone else without recourse to Google?

Considering he was still a Middlesborough player this year, I don't think he's been scouting on the side. Or if he has, then that's all a bit strange that he hasn't gone straight into Boro's scouting team?

 

I wonder if there's an Inglethorpe link from his Spurs days.

[Lee909]

Does no harm giving him a shot. He was a decent player,might have a decent eye for talent.

[Rex Banner]

Killer job bro!

 

I had no idea he was still playing last year, I figured he would have been retired for a while now.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Can he play left back?

[Jairzinho]

Yarm? Ah!

 

[diamondjoe]

Whats next? Lee Bowyer as Kit man?

[Russ Atmosphere]

Alan Smith, club doctor.

[El Rojo]

John Lukic, chief masseuse.

 

Michael Chopra, director of football.

[Gym Beglin]

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/BZEUxIZ

[Cardie]

People's views of who scouts are and what they do don't seem to tally wuth reality.

 

For every high profile scout turned director of football like Frank Arnesen there are 3000 blokes in flat caps standing in the rain at shitty reserve games feeding information up the chain.