LEAGUE 1 – Paul Mitchell should, according to the Team, become the next sporting director of AS Monaco. The 38-year-old Englishman is considered to be a talent scout across the Channel and rightly so. Here are the Top 5 of his best hits.
After more than a year in the dark, AS Monaco will finally be able to set a course and a real sports policy. According to the team, the club du Rocher is very close to signing Paul Mitchell, current director of strategy for Red Bull, who has passed through Southampton, Tottenham or Leipzig.
The 2019-20 season was complicated for AS Monaco and marked by a sad ninth place. Mitchell’s mission will be twofold. Unearthing talents that will allow the team to be competitive in the league to target the Champions League again, while reducing a far too large and costly workforce.
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From Leipzig to Monaco: Mitchell favorite to become sport director of ASM
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In England and Germany, Mitchell is considered a talent scout and has proven it during his time in Southampton, Tottenham or Leipzig. From Sadio Mané to Christophe Nkunku via Dele Alli, back on five of his best shots.
5. Dejan Lovren
Arrived for two years in Southampton, Paul Mitchell smells good luck Dejan Lovren, then player at Olympique Lyonnais since 2010. The Croatian international – then 24 years old – joined the Saints in 2013, then left in 2014 swell the ranks of … Liverpool. Proof that the sports director was nosy. More importantly, Lovren’s transfer from OL to Southampton shows that Mitchell knows a bit about the French market, a good point for Monaco.
Dejan Lovren of Liverpool FC
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4. Christopher Nkunku
Paul Mitchell didn’t stay long as RB Leipzig’s sporting director, he soon became Red Bull’s strategy director, however, Christopher Nkunku’s arrival can be attributed to him. Again, the former defender shows his knowledge of the French market by going for the Parisian titi against 15 million euros (bonus included). Nkunku has played 38 games this season, scoring five goals and 16 assists.
Christopher Nkunku goalscorer for Leipzig in Cologne in the Bundesliga on June 1, 2020
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3. Her Heung-min
After the Southampton adventure, Mitchell followed Pochettino to Tottenham in 2014 and built his reputation there. Known for having a very wide network, the sporting director did not hesitate to go and look on the side of Germany and Bayer Leverkusen to bring in the South Korean. He entered in 2015 for five years and 220 matches and 83 goals later (in all competitions), the bet was successful.
Heung-Min Son von den Tottenham Hotspurs
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2. Dele Alli
Tottenham, again. Even if the repercussions of Mitchell’s transfers took a few seasons to be seen, it is difficult today not to attribute the authorship of this team to him. Notably thanks to the arrival of Dele Alli in 2015, even if he was loaned out in the wake of Milton Keynes Dons. Sometimes irregular, the British international has established itself as one of the essential elements of the XI of Spurs, and is one of the architects of the accession to the final of the Champions League of his team during the 2018 season. 19.
Dele Alli
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1. Sadio Mané
If there is one player that should not be forgotten in this list, it is Sadio Mané, fourth in the 2019 Ballon d’Or. And it was in … Salzburg that Mitchell spotted the player and was to seek it, in September 2014. Undisputed holder in Austria, nobody doubted his talent and several large English stables were on the spot, but it was the Saints who won against about 15 million euros. Two years later, Mané signs in Liverpool for 36 million euros, you know the rest …
Sadio Mané vom FC Liverpool
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