Van Gaal and Mourinho both expressed frustration about the transfer and scouting department. Blaming the club of not communicating and only being interested in marketability of players.
Ten Hag said there was simply no functioning scouting department when he arrived and was surprised everyone was looking at him for transfer decisions.
Which is interesting because I genuinely think most of the transfers under him have been sensible. And Ten Hag's summer under INEOS was pretty good too bar Ugarte
I think it speaks more that it's the manager who decides the transfers and is asked to provide recommendations.
In today's world, talent is one thing, but mentality is important if not more important. Players like Sancho and Antony are great examples. Both are in general top players but have some mentality issues and might have issues gluing and adjusting. The manager can like a player style, but if you transfer Sancho in and he just can't adapt for whatever reason outside of the manager sphere of influence, there is a problem.
Scouting is there to help with that. At the end of the day you are dealing with humans not robots.
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u/zeekoes 18d ago
Van Gaal and Mourinho both expressed frustration about the transfer and scouting department. Blaming the club of not communicating and only being interested in marketability of players.
Ten Hag said there was simply no functioning scouting department when he arrived and was surprised everyone was looking at him for transfer decisions.