James Doolan

CSKA Sofia - Back to the drawing board After their disappointing season, CSKA Sofia’s will reflect and look to make any changes necessary. In order to compete a the top end of the Bulgarian league and regain European status.

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria (FK routine) v Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪 Goalscorer - V. Antov ⚽

🏆🏅 Big Welsh League Cup win last night !! Hopefully more to come before the end of the season. Lucky to work with great players and staff !! Up the tins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🟢⚪️ Alhamdullilah

Shamrock Rovers ☘️ have been unreal this European campaign. Especially the fact they’ve had to sell a lot of talent in January. 👏

Tottenham’s goal difference is strange in comparison to their position in the league.

+9 in 15th position and they have scored 9 goals more than Aston Villa. Whilst only conceding 2 more goals yet Villa sit in 8th position.

We’ve got Pep playing long ball before GTA 6

Sporting Directors & The GBE Rules Why Johannes Spors was denied a work permit & whether this is a maintainable position for The FA/Home Office

Yesterday, Southampton were thwarted in their attempts to appoint 777s Johannes Spors as their new sporting director.

@SidPanayi and I have addressed the issue

*Why did this happen?
*What are the regulations?
*Who could pass?

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Yesterday, all of the paid subscribers of the GBE Expert Hub received their first Pro GBE Bulletin.

This is a weekly analysis that you will not get elsewhere. It is a truly unique offering.

Tomorrow, this will be followed by a player report.

Link is in the comments to join in!

No problem

Live Tag Pro mate but Once Sport is also good.

Basketball is a sport that has used screens for years so I would presume some sort of inspiration may have been taken from there. Would be curious to hear other takes or opinions.

One of the big set piece trends increasing the last season or two. Would be teams using a screen/block to allow a player freedom of movement or space to receive/attack the ball.

Curious as to when the increase started. My guess (with no research) would be throw ins influencing other set pieces.

🟠🐺 Wolves FK routine

- Takers hold up the ball to wait for the goalscorers run and probe the wall to leave space in behind
- Three blockers in front of the goalscorer
- Two players anticipating a rebound / second ball from the shot

⚪️🔵 Napoli (4-3-3) vs Genoa (4-2-3-1)

Highlighting some of the rotations used by Napoli on the left side of the pitch leading to Anguissa’s goal.

Use of a lot of inverted runs that pay dividends with the LW or LB keeping the width and stretch Genoa’s defensive shape.

The most important learning from recruiting in Bands 1-3, including GBE Expert Player Report on Yassin Oukili Day 9 of the 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Content

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The most important EFL trends Day 8 of the 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Content

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The most important Premier League Trends Day 7 of the 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Content

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That’s the problem for most fans, they don’t have knowledge of any processes internally. They only see the coach who is the figure head so he takes all the blame.

One of the most common mistakes teams who build-up with 3 CBs make is that their distance are way too big between them:

Makes them easy to jump/press (square passes) and the cue for opposition’s wingers super easy to recognise.

See it with regularity, even at the top levels.

Hiring multiple high profile staff into overlapping roles.

Do you really need a Technical Director, Sporting Director, Director of Recruitment, and CEO (previously a Football Operations guy)?

What do they do all day?

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The GBE Expert Player Reports: Who, what & why? featuring Goduine Koyalipou (2000) and Aljosa Matko (2000) Day 6 of The GBE Expert Hub content opens the window into our scouting process

Currently ending the first week of free content at The GBE Expert Hub as we look to showcase our snapshot player reports

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GBE in the Home Nations Day 3 of the 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Content

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GBE in the Home Nations Day 3 of the 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Content

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⚽️ Recruitment Departments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will find this article of particular interest !

The Basics of ESC Day 2 of The 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Launch

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Congrats Ben !! Massive opportunity

The Basics of GBE Day 1 of The 12 Days of GBE Expert Hub Launch

🇬🇧 Football recruitment ⚠️ - A must read for anyone involved in football recruitment in the UK. Going into detail on the basics needed to obtain a work permit. Whilst at the end of the article briefly touching on the ESC system.

🧵I couldn’t spend the week talking about Scottish U19 talents and not end on Lennon Miller, could I?

It seems every couple of days a new club is linked to Motherwell’s star man, what will his next move be?

Let’s talk about him 👇🏻