New Man Utd sporting director Dan Ashworth has been hurt by Paul Mitchell s comments about the state of recruitment at Newcastle, according to reports.
Ashworth eventually took over as sporting director at Old Trafford in July after months of wrangling over the compensation that would be owed to the Magpies.
Mitchell, meanwhile, arrived at to take over from Ashworth after previous roles in scouting and club development at Southampton, Tottenham, RB Leipzig and Monaco.
Mitchell, 42, played professionally with clubs including Wigan and MK Dons before his career was cut short by injury and he moved into off-field roles.
He became chief scout at MK Dons before moving to Southampton in 2012. He followed manager Mauricio Pochettino to Tottenham in 2014, becoming their head of recruitment. His signings for the north London club included Dele Alli and Son Heung-min.
Mitchell who has previously been linked with both Liverpool and Man Utd later joined the Red Bull group, spending time with Leipzig and New York before being appointed as Monaco sporting director in 2020.
since the former Monaco man was appointed in July and the former came out to criticise the state of the recruitment department earlier this week.
Mitchell said: There are things we got wrong in our strategy for sure. Me coming in when I did probably wasn’t the best timing for the organisation but what it has done is allow me to witness a process.
As custodians of this club, we can’t just keep spending, spending, spending because at some point that won’t enable the club to facilitate its goals.
I don’t think any Newcastle fan wants to see this club in a place where other clubs were last season with docked points (or) financial penalties because that can really affect our growth.
Should our scouting and recruitment be driven more extensively with a wider reaching net? It definitely should be because this is becoming a really nuanced space now. You can’t just capital fund everything every year and buy loads of players at peak age and peak price.
Was, let’s say, the scouting network, the lengths and breadths of our process and our strategies, including the influence of Eddie Howe, bigger and broader enough? Probably not. And that’s the bit we analyse to be better. That’s the bit we have to adjust and modernise.
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that Man Utd sporting director Ashworth and other former members of Newcastle United’s recruitment team have been hurt and bemused by Mitchell s comments that their structure wasn t fit for purpose .
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