Back in april it was announced that Lawlor and Bout, our chief scout and head of global scouting, had left Man Utd. Since then there has been rumours that we were looking for a new model, and we were linked to figures like Edwards (former Liverpool) and Lee Dykes (at Brentford).
Six months later there appears to be few updates? A few years ago I would have been confident that the club was working on something. But I’m really not convinced that is the case.
Lawlor and Bout have been replaced by Simon Wells and Jose Mayorga. I'm assuming Wells has taken on the role of Lawlor and Jose Mayorga the role of Marcel Bout in a head of recruitment capacity. Mayorga if I'm not mistaken is a Argentine national who was the club's head of scouting in South America before he replaced the out-going scouts in April.
So the set-up at the moment is led by Wells and Mayorga from a recruitment/scouting level before the Technical Chief scout Mick Court and his team get involved with Mayorga and Wells to ratify the final short list via their video analysis department.
@Bastian
Steve Brown who is the head of recruitment operations, doesn't get involved with the actual scouting of players but is there to make sure the logistics side of the operation runs smoothly where scouts on the ground are able to get to assigned destinations comfortably. So the ticketing and travel for the scouts on the ground is his job. Brown is basically the guy who is the scouting coordinator.
We also have Dominic Jordan in a head of data science role, who I assume will have a team of data scientists working with him to help back up the performance and scouting departments at the club. The information regarding him and his team is quite vague at the moment, but it was reported about him being involved in the recruitment process in the summer window.
The club might add to the recruitment department in the coming months but at the moment the above information is accurate from what I've gleaned.
