Everton scout Jamie Hoyland spills beans on Goodison recruitment
Recruitment has been one of the biggest reasons for the struggles currently falling upon Everton with a mismatch of players signed under various managers.
Scrutiny of transfers is a common thing at every football club up and down the land and maybe it is even more closely monitored by fans at Goodison Park.
First team scout Jamie Hoyland has revealed all on the scouting process in place at the club which he claims can be a lonely place at times.
“I do love it. I’ve been lucky, I’ve travelled the world doing it. I’ve been to Brazil a couple of times, Chile, and Peru. All of Europe looking at players, and brilliant it is,” Hoyland said on the Under the Cosh podcast.
“That (knowing of players) can be through agents and stuff like that. If there are tournaments on. Like when I went to Peru it was the South American Under-17 tournament.
“So you are just going there to see and there are some you know about, but you are just having a look like that really.
“You are just doing reports. Massive reports all the time. Every player you do a bit on and then follow as they are coming through.
“To be honest it can be a lonely place. I picked up on your guys the other week and I had been in Germany. I finished up doing 1,200 kilometres driving because I had been right up there and right down there.”
Too belligerent
Maybe the problem with Everton’s recruitment is the sheer number of scouts in every corner of the globe.
They have all kinds of players coming back to Finch Farm for whoever is the manager at the time to mull over and it can be just too much to process at once.
Everton would be far better off by simply taking the manager’s suggestions first and getting their favourites through the door before sending their many scouts out across the world to look for the next great player.
The truth is that any upcoming star has already been noted by all of Europe’s big clubs and when a transfer battle begins, Everton simply cannot compete with the likes of Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid among many others.
It is therefore a waste of time finding out about these teenage starlets because the chances of actually signing one from abroad are almost zero.
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