![]() ![]() They are the faceless men who stand on the touchline and spot raw talent. And that's strange because if you look at it scouts are central to the mythology of football. One area people know very little about is scouting and recruitment. We know every last thing that happens in the game, players present a certain image of themselves, clubs work increasingly hard at massaging their image as well. ![]() We live in a world were football is massively over exposed. What made you think of writing a book about football scouts? In it – and in this interview – he shows how the best scouts go about forming an opinion on players and why some clubs hold back from signing a player even though there is both the financial ability by the club and talent on the part of the player. As he journeys into the world of football scouting, talking to an impressive number of people who work in that area, Michael Calvin slowly shows you what goes into scouting a player, bringing down the illusion – for those naïve enough to believe it – that selecting a player to add to a squad is any easy process. ![]() There is very little which gives you real insight into how the game works very little from which you walk away feeling that you’re slightly more capable in discerning what is happening. A lot of it is fluff guess work by those who either wrongfully imply they have contacts within the game or else argumentative nothing by people trying to show how clever they are. ![]() Each day thousands upon thousands of words are written about football. ![]()
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