The New England Revolution have named Remi Roy as the club's Director of Scouting & Player Personnel. Roy becomes the full-time Director of Scouting after formerly serving eight seasons as assistant coach for the first team. https://www.revolutionsoccer.net/po...e-remi-roy-director-scouting-player-personnel
This will create more plausible deniability that Mike Burns is responsible to do anything. The Revs can't find/sign players? That's not his job.
Sounds good, hope for the best, but... From the article: In his eight previous seasons with the Revolution, Roy worked as an assistant coach with the first team, and was also heavily involved with the club's domestic and international scouting efforts. My Bold. To be honest, any scouting domestic or international has not been a super impressive track record that materialized into actual impact signings. I can only hope that this means because he is solely focused, it will improve?
Our sole scout speaks English and French, but (to my knowledge) not Spanish or Portuguese. I guess we can expect more $600,000/year defenders like Dielna rather than $250,000/year Leandro Gonzalez Pirez.
Considering the fact that Bilello said last year that along with running the team, the head coach was also the one responsible for finding/identifying players he wanted signed, I wonder if getting a Friedel, and/or most everyone who was interviewed, demanded that the team have an actual scouting dept? Another question I have, does the tittle Director of Scouting mean that he will be like a director in the real world, that he'll be in charge of others working under him, or is it just a paper tittle, and his job includes being the director of the dept, as well being the chief scout, the domestic scout, the international scout, the scouting intern who gets coffee for everybody in the dept, etc? I'd guess it's more likely he's the latter of the two options, judging by the third paragraph from the announcement, which doesn't seen to imply that there will be others scouting with him, and on top of that, he will also have responsibilities beyond just scouting. "In the role of Director of Scouting & Player Personnel, Roy will be focused on scouting and talent identification in players at the collegiate, domestic, and international levels. Roy will work with Revolution technical staff in player evaluation and will have a role in all soccer-related aspects of the New England Revolution." I'm guessing it's just luck or kismet that, after what was surely a world wide search for a scouting Director, the best possible candidate alive happened to be a guy who happened to be working in the local area.
Nothing against Remy, but it seems like the typical Revs way or quarter-assing it. Just like they found their first coach because he happened to be on the same flight as the Business Manager (GM) coming home on a vacation. Just like they found their second-most recent coach in the broadcast booth. Just like they found their GM pushing a shopping cart full of empty cans and bottles around the parking lot, they have just the right knack of finding the right hire without looking too far. My guess is that in his previous role, he may have been "in charge of" scouting, but that was the fifth-most important thing on his list, one that you do if you get the chance, but no worries if you don't. At least if this is the only thing he'll be doing, at least there might be some chance of in-season trips to see players. The head coach would never be able to do that, since he will always be prepping for the next game. It is just imbecilic to think that a method like that could work, but that's what we did for many years. 22 to be exact. But what about Friedel's posse? Didn't he have an entourage of 3-4 guys with connections, and he insisted that it was a package deal? Assuming at least one had a scouting background, is he going to be working for Roy?
I’m not arguing that speaking Spanish or Portuguese wouldn’t help. I can’t help wondering why the Revolution haven’t done better with their French signings. The French league itself excels at signing players from 3rd world French speaking countries (Africa)... It shouldn’t be their only pot to draw from but they shouldn’t have such mediocre results either.
Yeah it's all talk. I'm waiting for all those connections to materialize into something greater than 1 int'l signing. Not impressed with early dividends so far.
Outside PSG and sometimes Lyon/a couple others, the French league is mediocre. The revs get below average players from lower half teams (Angoua). That said I like Dielna. He's got a good attitude and is the right size for a solid MLS defender (by comparison, Angoua was not). I think he will actually stick around a couple more years.
I am reading this as Remi is finding them but Burns still has to get them to agree to come here and put pen to paper
I read this as Friedel figuring he can oversee the keepers (his way), so this was a way to find a different role for RR.