Figures 1-0 Football Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/steve-nickson-appointed Newcastle United has today appointed former Under-21s scout, Steve Nickson, as the club's new head of recruitment following the departure of former chief scout Graham Carr last week. Steve will work closely with manager Rafa Benítez and assumes responsibility for the organisation and management of player recruitment at all levels across the club. Steve, along with Rafa and managing director Lee Charnley, will evaluate all aspects of United's player recruitment function, including the processes and systems used for scouting players at all levels throughout the club to ensure Newcastle United is best positioned to achieve its targets in this and future seasons. Manager Rafa Benítez said: "I'd like to congratulate Steve and welcome him to his new role with the club. "Steve has done an excellent job in the scouting department at Under-21 level and I am very confident that he will bring his many strengths to this new role, improving and building on our first team recruitment strategy, as well as that at all levels throughout the club." Don't like the sound of that at all, it sounds like he has responsibility for everything. If he's been at the club before, he surely cant be Rafa's choice. Seems like another cheap internal promotion. Also our recruitment at U21 level has been shockingly shit for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
number9shirt Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Typical ashley promote from within. Yes sir, thank you sir, grateful just to have the job sir. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Don't like the sound of that at all. Sounds like he has responsibility for everything. If he's been at the club before, he surely cant be Rafa's choice. Seems like another cheap internal promotion. Also our recruitment at U21 level has been shockingly shit for years. this is a fucking car crash of a post like, rafa is telling you he's cool in the quotes man, give over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 They need someone to be sounding out clubs and agents, Rafa can't do it all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Don't like the sound of that at all. Sounds like he has responsibility for everything. If he's been at the club before, he surely cant be Rafa's choice. Seems like another cheap internal promotion. Also our recruitment at U21 level has been shockingly shit for years. this is a fucking car crash of a post like, rafa is telling you he's cool in the quotes man, give over Oh, I'm totally shocked that the NUFC media team have not released damming quotes from our manager about how he'd prefer to have *** in the job, rather than giving a huge amount of responsibility to a cheap internal promotion from a bloke who has been fairly shit at his current job. Our scouting at U21 level has been terrible, this is the chap who has been responsible for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Rafa's literally directly quoted hes happy with it Cant take that as gospel though because its not a vague paper article with no quotes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 does anyone know anything about him, other than this announcement, how long was he with the u21's for example? how old is he, what's his background maybe you all know something i don't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 does anyone know anything about him, other than this announcement, how long was he with the u21's for example? how old is he, what's his background maybe you all know something i don't Apparently he was responsible for bringing in Ayoze, Aarons and Mbabu. Other then then that, fuck knows Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Our u21 scouting in the last few years hasn't actually been that bad. The vast majority of signings at this age range are speculative and you actually expect the majority not to succeed but Perez and Aarons for example are successes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 does anyone know anything about him, other than this announcement, how long was he with the u21's for example? how old is he, what's his background maybe you all know something i don't Been at the club since 2011, before that was at Blackburn Rovers for 10 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/meet-steve-nickson-newcastle-united-10173026 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 I saw that figures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 I saw that figures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Our u21 scouting in the last few years hasn't actually been that bad. The vast majority of signings at this age range are speculative and you actually expect the majority not to succeed but Perez and Aarons for example are successes. i'd imagine a major part of our problem the last 10 years or so would be the quality of coaching handling the younger players myself, not saying this bloke is going to set the world on fire for us but everyone going apeshit seems premature to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Our u21 scouting in the last few years hasn't actually been that bad. The vast majority of signings at this age range are speculative and you actually expect the majority not to succeed but Perez and Aarons for example are successes. i'd imagine a major part of our problem the last 10 years or so would be the quality of coaching handling the younger players myself, not saying this bloke is going to set the world on fire for us but everyone going apeshit seems premature to me I agree. His role will be mainly management and admin of the scouting network. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 They need someone to be sounding out clubs and agents, Rafa can't do it all. Yep, as long Rafa is OK with it then it's fine. Problem with Carr above everything else is it was obviously at odds with Rafa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 is he the terrahawks bloke then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 As Greg said sounds to me more like he's going to be responsible in ensuring we actually have a scouting team for a change, rather than just buying players without consulting the manager like Carr did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 There's our new signing Happy 1st of July, boys and girls ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 As Greg said sounds to me more like he's going to be responsible in ensuring we actually have a scouting team for a change, rather than just buying players without consulting the manager like Carr did. Be a change to have a scouting network! His job was Head of Youth Recruitment, i.e. in charge of that network and management and reporting. It's just an extension of that but as the club has only relied on Carr for so long he will have to work with Rafa to build up that network. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Happy to accept what Greg is saying until it is otherwise proven wrong. Maybe the lack of signings in July is getting to me too much, I was promised loads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 i think it's a sign of the times (on this board) that some are seeing as negative in the space of what 2 weeks carr has gone and been replaced with someone considerably less powerful and presumably less inclined to have ashleys ear, and that rafa has ostensibly given his approval to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Wasn't it that Rod Stewart lookalike that found Ayoze? Is this the same bloke? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 As Greg said sounds to me more like he's going to be responsible in ensuring we actually have a scouting team for a change, rather than just buying players without consulting the manager like Carr did. Hopefully it's this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Wasn't it that Rod Stewart lookalike that found Ayoze? Is this the same bloke? is he the terrahawks bloke then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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