Arsenal’s mutual partnership with Spanish Segunda outfit UD Salamanca has officially come to an end. However, the club have maintained their base on the continent by re-establishing their previous link with Celta Vigo.
Young Guns announced in September that Arsenal were considering cancelling the partnership with Salamanca following their treatment of both Havard Nordtveit and Pedro Botelho during loan spells. The latter was even withdrawn early after allegations that assistant manager Fran Albert had been attempting to black-mail Pedro into handing over money.
Celta Vigo have been handed a second chance to link with the Gunners after an acrimonious split over a row with Carlos Vela in 2006. After promising they would loan the Mexican, they signed too many non E.U players and were unable to add Vela to their ranks. Yet after Salamanca’s Sporting Director Miguel Torrecilla switched to Celta in the summer, Arsenal have now rekindled the relationship which was initially setup by David Dein.
After a struggling start to the season, Celta’s initial push for promotion appears to be over already, but future non-EU players look certain to make the switch to Spain.The club will also look for a new man to look after the arrangement after Richard Law was promoted to Ivan Gazidis’ excutive team following a successful interview for the post during pre-season.
Article By – J.Sanderson
Celta is a big club, so great news! J, I am wondering how the process of scouting is working. Say Orlandelli discovers a talent, do Rowley come next in line to check the player? Would think probably Europe is more of a central spot where scouts are sent and available to double check players. Do you know who is the representative in Africa? Is there a co-operation with ASEC? sorry for a lot of questions
No problem. How it works is normally a low level scout will find a player and scout him 3-4 times. Then once he’s happy the details will be passed to Sandro or the head of whatever region. Sandro will scout the player a number of times along with the scout who found him and after probably 20 games, Rowley would go and check.
Its a complicated process. With regards to Africa, I don’t think were is a kind of deal like this but we do scout Africa heavily.
In Africa do we have a Partnership with anybody ( like Berekum Arsenal) J?
What’s this guy Miguel Torrecilla like? Is he a class act and the key to all this? Why does Arsenal do business with his clubs?
Miguel Torrecilla is the guy on the right hand side of the picture above. With the shirt and tie.
He’s pictured here with Arsene Wenger – http://youngguns.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wenger-salamanca.jpg
He is good friend of Wenger and there was some talk that he was interviewed for the post of CE before Gazidis got the job.
TheCritic – As far as I know, we don’t.
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good to have a link up with these again knowing they will have learned from their previous mistakes. Is there anybody who could be going there J.Sanderson or haven’t we been linked with any south american youngsters lately??
How can I become a scout for Arsenal. Sounds like a decent job. I’d take the crap job noone wants like Greenland or something.
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Thanks J,
I was wondering as I might B doing a trip to South Africa.
Is it just Rapids, Celta and r Honk Kong and Vietnamese teams.
TheCritic: I think you meant BEC, which is not a Hong Kong team but instead is a Thai team. And you got the rest of them spot-on.
Hopefully this will work better.
Wojciech szczesny joins Brentford on loan for a month
good news,hope he plays regularly,i have high hopes for him
Cheers KWE, Im just tired, im actually going to Thailand soon, so I should know this lol.