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People really need to understand how scouting works (self.reddevils)

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Been thinking about this for a while in regards to us scouting Renato Sanches.

Tbf, I thought we'd end up signing him as well, but the amount of times we saw posts like ''Man Utd present at Benfica game'' (mostly from that Hagen guy) was just idiotic. And the same goes for the comments we see now that he's signed for Bayern, like ''How can we scout him for so many games and not sign him up?''

Having a scout at a Benfica game is just not newsworthy at all. It means nothing. Of course we're gonna have a scout there, that's how it works for crying out loud. It doesn't mean we're on the verge of signing anyone, it's just common sense.

If we have a scout based in Portugal (we do btw, Toninho Cruz), which games is he going to be at? Benfica are having a historically good season. Of course he's going to be present every single weekend, that's his job. That doesn't even mean he's scouting anyone in particular, although Sanches would have obviously been on the radar. Point is, since we have a scout in Portugal, he's going to be at practically every Benfica game, it's not a big deal like Hagen made it out to be. The same goes for having scouts in any other country, Portugal just happens too have fewer relevant teams, and therefore games, to go see.

So everyone who's now saying that this means we must have screwed up on the transfer have no idea what they're talking about. All we did was look at a promising player.

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[–]anterax 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Thanks, but I think you're wasting your time. There are way too many people here who want to make mountains out of molehills and the mods here just can/will not deal with this at the moment.

Anybody who has followed football/soccer - and a big club who everybody gets linked to - for 2-3 years can come to the conclusions that you have stated, except for people in this sub apparently

[–]nikolai426Memphis 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

the 24th consecutive scouting of a Benfica game, which really did start when Renato Sanches was starting to come to life in Benfica's main team... Don't think it's too much of a mole even if it's not certain we were looking at him

[–]nikolai426Memphis 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sorry guys if it seemed annoying (I posted the Hagen tweets), and we were still scouting like last week I believe, and it was the 24th consecutive Benfica match we were scouting so that was out of the ordinary. We were really interested I really do believe, but then again I get what you're saying as in it's really obscure

[–]TheReplacerLegends 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I personal believe we had scouts there for different players. But the news media just ran with the whole Sanches angle. So we bought into the hype. But by the end of the day, its really the clubs decision.

[–]19Dan81Tempo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's pretty obvious that Utd were very interested and very serious about Renato. If you take the mantle: "Man Utd are always interested in the best players" Renato Sanchez definitely looks to be in that category - especially at 18-years old - that puts him on our radar and with money not an issue you'd have to say that him signing for Bayern is a failure.

18-years-old, strong, direct, amazing technical ability available for £28m plus double that in add-ons is a doable economical deal. I guarantee if we, like Bayern, had made an announcement about the future direction of the club we would have had a chance to get him.

There is no direction to the club. There's no plan, there's nothing to buy into. The only thing we know is that LVG has 1-year left on his contract and nothing will happen after that.

[–]Dry_OasisKeane 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

There was a lot more than just reports of scouting, a lot of reports saying a deal was done, with details about the fee and everything.