[Albion] Scouting team sacked

RandyWanger said:

AI has come for their jobs

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BLOCK F said:

For the oldies who remember the 1969 Zager and Evans hit, ‘In The Year 2525’, they were on to something. One day, we’ll be fielding 11 AIs and be done with it!

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Commander said:

At least it wasn't immigrants.

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Hiheidi said:

Wonder what it's all about.

"It is understood that the excellent work of the scouts who have left has been recognised by Bloom and that Brighton plan to make appointments as part of the restructuring to take the total recruitment staff headcount back up to near its previous level."

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Birdie Boy said:

I'm talking about finding it about his personality etc for the no dickheads rule. Or do we now just have people watching every single match in the world and going by video only? The data has to start somewhere.

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Hiheidi said:

Looks like one has (predictably) ended up at Chelsea... Assuming this was one of the staff who was let go

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Han Solo said:

Removing obsolete ways of scouting for the first team, to be replaced with more data and AI, and likely increasing the number of youth scouts and data analysts would be my guess.

The club has non-scouting personell working full time with researching the personality, history and circumstances around any player we want. IIRC they're called "Recruitment Security Officers" or something of that sort. Most clubs, and I would be surprised if we're not one of them, also do extensive psychological testing before signing a player.

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