What does it take to become a scout for Man United?

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What does it take to become a scout for Man United?

For the first time in their 140-year history, Man United are looking to hire a director of football.

It’s the modern way, after all.

And judging by United’s questionable transfer business in recent years, we reckon they could use all the help they can get.

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So to get the ball rolling, United have publicly advertised for a ‘Recruitment Analyst’ on everyone’s favourite job listings website Indeed.

Working within the club’s scouting and recruitment department, the ad states the club is looking for someone who will “collate and analyse Manchester United specific technical, tactical and physical benchmarks”.

Essentially, steer clear of Angel Di Maria.

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So what do you actually need to work as a scout for United?

Well, first off, you’d need to be well qualified in the field of sports science.

The bare basics are that you’ll need a sports science honours degree – “preferably a master’s level qualification” – as well as training in performance analysis (essentially, watching and re-watching training videos; the kind of thing Marcelo Bielsa does for fun).

Then, you need to understand the technical and tactical demands of professional football.

As we all know, Jose Mourinho has very ‘specific’ way of setting up his team (get the bus memes in, lads), so the player would need to work well within the Special One’s unique system.

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Luckily, there’s already a huge scouting network for you to play with.

In recent years, the club’s network across Europe, South America and Asia has grown to treble it’s size since the days of Sir Alex Ferguson.

The chances are, nowadays they’d have someone who’s actually watched Bebe play football.

United's scouting overhaul continues. Now on the lookout for a recruitment analyst to identify new signings for first team. Comes a month after Romain Poirot was named France scout. Also plan to appoint technical director/DOF before end of year ideally #mufc

— Ciaran Kelly (@MENCKelly) September 9, 2018

If you’re interested, make sure you get your application in quick.

It seems United have already started their backroom shakeup by hiring former Man City scout Romain Poirot, who will be tasked with searching for ‘world-class and emerging talent’ in France.

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