Matthew Le God

Video scouts are often very young, it is a foot in the door role at clubs. He is in his early 20s and already has experience at a very progressive club in non league.

AFC Totton have today been promoted to the National League South. So you'll be able to manage them on FM26 😉 😇

He does have football experience, he was an analyst for Dorking Wanderers FC. He is in his early 20s, has relevant software experience and has had early experience in football. Perhaps he is rather good at it, hence a quick jump to the Championship.

Why is that funny?

The Echo reported it at the time... https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25045608.southampton-fc-set-part-ways-head-recruitment/ His replacement also reported to be imminent... https://trainingground.guru/stapley-appointed-assistant-technical-director-by-southampton/

😉😇

We now have someone different in charge of appointing the manager to when Martin left. Although that new person has worked with Rohl before and favours Rohl's style of play on managers.

We don't even know who the manager is yet and you are picking his captain.

Johannes Spors comes from wanting a Red Bull style of football. Numerous interviews from his past stating that, plus some in his time at Saints. He won't be picking a manager that gets them to play like Martin did.

Butterfly

So you agree with my post!

He absolutely has star quality. He isn't helped by being in an awful team. His confidence has looked shot recently because his teammates are out of their depth. £20m is a ridiculously low price for him. As I think you will see in the summer.

3rd or 4th choice centre back for a promotion chasing Championship team. Not regularly starting and not kept if promoted again to the Premier League.

Do you think he'll leave in the summer? How much do you think he is worth?

Him not being the manager at the time. Source... the club website.

Intertwined

We have an exceptionally bad season and people lurch to extremes. Sure, we've been absolutely terrible this season and completely put of our depth in the Premier League, but that doesn't mean our players are League 1, League 2, non league or should never be footballers. We have a Championship level squad with a handful of PL quality players. That is why we have 11 points after 35 games, along with some dreadful managerial decisions.

None of that is in any way relevant to the post you replied "fuck me" to. The post you replied "fuck me" to asked the question... "What do we really know about his ability to coach rather than manage?" That is a question about Rusk's time as a coach under Martin and Juric.

What? Before we go down another rabbit hole... by recruitment I mean of players and also hiring/firing managers and their styles of play.

Avoiding the question

Mark

And that makes him "not a footballer"?

Hyperbole. Sure he isn't Premier League level. But he is fine in the Championship.

Why are you asking that, when the post you just quoted literally says... "Leicester are better than us". "other Championship clubs (bar Ipswich)"... means other i.e. other than Leicester that I already mentioned who were better!

It is the actions of people who are no longer making those decisions. No one is responsible for the actions of those that came before them in any field of work.