Phil71 wrote:If the club want to restructure then fine. If the roles people are in really are redundant then fine. An employer can't be expected to keep someone in a job if there's no job to do.
But to blame the redundancies on Covid19, and to say it is being done so that the club can invest in the team is a public relations disaster.
This - to claim a club that turns over 400m can't afford 55 staff whilst offering to sign a 32 year old on >100k a week? - that's just bollocks.
The fact is having our own scouting team is a waste of time, we are not alone in thinking this, in house scouting has been reduced massively by dozens of clubs across Europe, with kids as young as ten having agents scouts no longer have a purpose, you can't "discover" a player when he is already being promoted to every club in Europe by an agent ... it's a bit like having a guy knock on your door asking if you've heard of the new pizza after you've already had a dozen flyers stuffed through the letter box and seen 500 google adds ... it simply no longer adds value. If you then consider that agents now run their own scouting networks (
often using the same people paid for by clubs) then you just don't need your own scouts anymore.
Arsenal's problem as usual is the PR department - literary days after an FA Cup win all that joy is sucked out of the club by this inept press release and incredibly bad timing ... people get made redundant it happens, but to hide behind Covid? that just sucks.