10 Questions for a Powerful Recruitment Strategy
Discover the essential questions every Sporting Director must ask to create a recruitment strategy that aligns with club culture, business goals, and on-field success.
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Generating £350+ Million in 3 Years through Player Trading
In today’s competitive football world, clubs often struggle to balance financial sustainability with success on the pitch. For clubs outside the top-tier elite, relying solely on revenue from commercial deals and broadcasting rights isn’t enough. Southampton FC, under the technical…
Decoding Independiente’s Success with Luis C. Roggiero
Fearlessly accepting the challenge, he embraced the role of a sporting director with a vision to shape the club's destiny. The wheels were set in motion, and thus commenced Luis Roggiero's incredible journey with Independiente del Valle.
Bayern’s Rebuild: Crisis or Overreaction?
Bundesliga's record champions, are coming off a strange season. While they did claim their 11th consecutive league title, they did so in an unusual fashion—by the skin of their teeth.
Core Sports Capital CEO on Their Rapid Growth and Future Moves
In this episode of FOCUS Talks, Ahmet Schaefer shared the most delicate parts of the achievements that they reached with Clermont Foot 63 and Austria Lustenau.
Creating Your Opportunity and Success: AZ Alkmaar
AZ is on a long-term mission of carrying the team to a championship winner level by 2025. Marjin Beuker who served as the Director of Development and Coordinator of Talent Management of the team for around fourteen years defines their approach to the game saying, “We don’t buy success, we create it. We believe in making the difference through vision, programs, facts, knowledge, and capable staff.” Making this difference is a long-term endeavor that AZ has undertaken for quite a long time now.
How Belgian Kids Started Wearing Purple Again
A look at Anderlecht’s rediscovery of identity through the financial crisis, a brand-new youth programme, and, Eden Hazard…
The Guide to Smart Spending in Footballers Recruitment
Sport is a business and spending on assets must be justified. How do we justify the wages a club spends on the player? That is what we will look to explore in this article.
Understanding Goalkeeping’s Last Data Frontier
Modern football is a game of numbers. Every year new ideas come to the surface to aid our human instinct of ranking and creating lists. We want to know who is the best distributor, who is the best finisher, and who wins the most challenges.