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Glenda's Legs said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1488908846181634051

Looks like Steve is off to Everton.

I think it was probably inevitable as it did seem some of his role was taken on by Paratici, and with Paratici overseeing all the scouting and recruitment operations it may have felt like a demotion for Hitchen.
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No surprise that they try make it into a negative headline with 100 years of experience going but not the experience coming in.
Don't know if the article continues in that vein...
 
DubSpur said:
No surprise that they try make it into a negative headline with 100 years of experience going but not the experience coming in.
Don't know if the article continues in that vein...
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They only go into the detail at the end of the article, with those listed departures being mainly from the media and commercial side of things, rather than the footballing side.
But yes, there are a few digs here and there that give a negative vibe.
It also says that Hitchen was popular, and cites him as responsible for a number of high profile transfer attempts that didn't come off (although I don't recall us negotiating for Ward-Prowse) :

Hitchen's role diminished since Paratici's arrival
Before the summer appointment of Paratici, Hitchen essentially acted as Tottenham’s director of football, forging a close and successful relationship with former manager Pochettino and becoming a popular figure at the training ground. He was well liked by current head coach Antonio Conte.

But the former Macclesfield Town defender was not as heavily involved in the summer and January transfer windows after the arrival of Paratici and spent most of the past six months overseeing the club’s medical, sports science and analysis departments.

Hitchen informed Levy of his decision to leave after a January transfer window in which Paratici took charge of the ins and outs, as he did last summer and over the appointments of head coaches Nuno Espirto Santo, who was fired after just four months, and Conte.

Club back out of Hitchen-negotiated Fernandes, Dybala and Grealish signings
Along with Levy and more lately Paratici, Hitchen, like many of his predecessors, has at times come under fire from supporters who have blamed him for Tottenham’s transfer business and failure to land big-name targets.

At different times, Hitchen negotiated deals for Bruno Fernandes, Paulo Dybala, Jack Grealish and James Ward-Prowse only for the club to back out of completing the transfers over financial issues.

Money was spent by Tottenham during the time of Hitchen, who was responsible for delivering club record signing Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso for Pochettino, who had made the pair two of his priority targets. Both players left on loan during the January transfer window and it is telling that Pochettino tried to take Ndombele to Paris Saint-Germain before he eventually returned to Lyon.

Mourinho was genuinely thrilled in the summer of 2020, when Hitchen helped to sign all of his targets - Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Sergio Reguilon and Matt Doherty, together with the loan return of Gareth Bale. Doherty has not worked out, while Bale returned to Real Madrid.

The fact that Hitchen has already been targeted by Everton, as well as attracting some interest from Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Leicester City, points to the fact that there is understanding within football that he largely worked well within challenging conditions at Tottenham, given all of their top-four rivals have greater financial resources available.
 
yiddo37 said:
Absolutely no idea what you just said?! :)
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https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

It’s an online game, rather like Mastermind, powered by a machine-trained precognitive algorithm that ingests multiple news data sources and then predicts the five-letter word most likely to dominate the next day’s news agenda, which players then have to guess. It was built by an ex GCHQ spook, called Josh Wardle, who recently sold it to the New York Times after a bidding war with the NSA.

Today’s word is ominous for our scouting network.
 
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