Dan Ashworth has completed his overhaul of Newcastle’s academy recruitment team after a recent report from the Training Ground Guru confirmed the 13 new arrivals.
Since joining from Brighton in February 2022, Ashworth has made it his mission to completely overhaul the lacklustre system that was in place under Mike Ashley.
As part of our long-term project we will be and have been investing heavily in our academy to ensure that we are bringing through some of the best young talent in the world.
Over the last 12 months or so we have attracted some of the best scouts in the country who have worked for clubs like Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal in recent years.
Hopefully this not only means more young talent coming through our ranks but local talent especially -and who knows, maybe we could see the next Alan Shearer or Paul Gascoigne developing in years to come.
You can see the full list of our staff below:
- Paul Midgley: Head of Youth Recruitment (ex Man City and Leeds)
- Paul McLaren: Head of UK scouting 13-18 (ex Man City and Arsenal)
- Paul Baker: Lead North Scout (job change from within under new structure)
- Delroy Ebanks: Lead South Scout (ex West Ham, Fulham and FA)
- Glenn Craggs: Head of Local Recruitment (already in place)
- Drew Beardsley: U5-U11 Recruitment Officer (already in place)
- Andy Basterfield: (Ex Man U and Preston and FA) North West Regional scout
- Dean Edwards: (Ex Stoke, Stockport and Birmingham) North West West Regional scout
- Wayne Spooner: (ex Man City and Everton) Yorkshire Regional Scout
- Amos Mukiza: (ex Leicester and Peterborough) Midlands Regional Scout
- Ross Thorpe: (ex Leeds) Midlands Regional Scout
- Abdul Habib: (ex Crystal Palace) London/ South East Regional Scout
- Dan Risk: (ex Chelsea) London/ South Regional Scout
- Andy Gill: (Ex Leeds and Man United) South West Regional Scout
- Eddie Black: U9-U14 Lead Local Professional Club Scout (ex Arsenal)
- Michael Hutchinson: U9-U14 Assistant Local Professional Club Scout (promotion from within)
- Claire Burrows: Recruitment Operations Manager (ex Leicester)
Wherever you got that list from they forgot Borja de Matias – chief scout for South America.
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