Scott Duxbury has been with Watford since 2012, having previously worked at West Ham Watford's strategy has been to build a structure behind the scenes that they hope will help the. I have to try to offer the best performance we have and to get better results.. Theyll either be very successful and maybe go on to another bigger club or they wont work out and theyll move on. Watford chairman and CEO Scott Duxbury has described the club's promotion to the Premier League as the biggest achievement in his career. Picture: Youtube/WatfordFC. Watfords scouts are instructed to get to know a players agents, even his parents, to better understand their desires in advance of any transfer. It is quite reassuring for me, and it should be for the Watford fans, that he knows the template for success. The head coach will say, for example, he wants a winger with pace who can play on both flanks and the scouting team will look for someone who meets those needs. History The ability to make such speedy decisions stems from extensive planning. We have to be scrupulously honest with ourselves and admit our efforts surrounding the team were not good enough. Has been at Watford since 2012, when the Pozzo family took over, and is a key figure on both the football and business sides of the club. This year, Watford rejected an offer from an American media company to buy a 35.7 per cent stake in the club for 125m, valuing it at a whopping 350m. Watford can now afford the price tags attached to better-known players. "There was moments where we weren't perhaps achieving what we thought we would do and people were turning against us, and the fans were turning against us, but we believed in what we were doing. Watford FC Chairman & CEO Scott Duxbury shares his thoughts ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash with Burnley. We cant match them pound for pound.. Assessing the quality of developed players is every bit as difficult. Since 2015, the clubs annual revenues have grown by more than 100m. Their opponents in Saturdays FA Cup Final, Manchester City, may be viewed as leaders in the transfer market, given their power to sign marquee names, but Watfords ability to build a squad on a fraction of the budget of their Wembley rivals arguably makes them one of the best operators. We close the deal and weve signed a player that in the Carabao Cup [one of Englands two main cup competitions] scored a wonder goal, then in midweek for Portugal [under-19s], scored another wonder goal. The Pozzos were ridiculed when they came to power, with plenty questioning how a head coach could be in place when he did not have the complete say on transfers. Rest assured, we will do everything in our power to take Watford Football Club back to the Premier League, something we all believe we can achieve. 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The rapid turnover appears to cause little disruption. That system is headed up by Duxbury, owner Gino Pozzo and technical director Filippo Giraldi. Of the 28 teams to have played in the Premier League in the past three years, only four have bought a lower percentage of players from the British Isles, according to 21st Club. 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That is tough to actually deal with and we had to do that and we had to keep a team that was competitive with literally no income that was coming into the football club. At clubs such as Liverpool and Manchester City, the idea is that recruitment is carried out by an executive team that remain in place even if the manager who picks the team changes. On Monday, Pozzo and Duxbury added: "Every club wants to be playing at the highest possible level. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. How to get into football - the most popular sport in the world, with clubs and facilities throughout the UK. Simply put, staying in the Premier League is valuable. According to their recent accounts, the clubs net spend the difference between outlays on transfers minus fees received from selling players has been about 30m a season since re-entering the Premier League. We have to do something different. Our team will resume duty as soon as possible to start preparing for the best summer transfers file! Here he explains why - along with Ajax's Head of Sport Science and Data Vosse de Boode. Please report any comments that break our rules. Beneath them is best described as a scouting board, with eight or nine individuals based around the world. The suggestion that Watford is a London club is something of a touchy subject with a lot of supporters, considering the side are based in Hertfordshire, but the link with the capital was a huge positive for the Pozzos. I want them to achieve the best that they could possibly do in their career. The Watford Observer caught up with the Hornets' new chief executive this week to discuss how he arrived at Vicarage Road . He is the managing director of Vitol, a Geneva-based oil trading company. In the three seasons since promotion, Watford have secured 12 victories on one occasion and 11 wins in the other two. Spent six-and-a-half seasons at Eintracht Frankfurt, as Scout, Chief Scout and then Director of Professional Football. Somewhere, there is a better player than [the one] you are chasing. The multi-platinum selling singer is Watford's honorary life president and was chairman during their rise from the old Fourth Division to the top flight during the 1970s and early 80s. Please report any comments that break our rules. They feel it in their bones, he says in a recent YouTube video series on the art of scouting. As Calvin suggests, fewer than one per cent of the 10,000 boys at English club academies go on to make a living from the game. NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber admits his long-term future may not be in football after revealing the abuse he has experienced from some sections of the clubs fanbase in the last year. The family can develop the club, they can increase revenues and can help Watford grow.. If we just simply replicate what the bigger clubs are doing, were going to fail, because we dont have their resources. The company made a turnover of $297 billion in 2011. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Scott Duxbury, Watford chief executive. Scott Ian DUXBURY. Duxbury has spent most of his adult life involved in football after qualifying as a lawyer. Watford FC Chairman & CEO Scott Duxbury shares his thoughts ahead of this afternoons Premier League clash with Leeds United Late last week, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting a small group of fans to begin a longer-term and wide-ranging process of discussions under the banner of a newly-constituted Fans Committee. In response, the English Football League (EFL), the body that regulates professional divisions below the Premier League, changed its rules so that clubs could no longer benefit from a huge influx of foreign loanees. They are footballs last romantics. Advertise with us Yet few made the big time. His time at Upton Park was controversial though, with the club fined 30m because of the Carlos Tevez affair, and he left in 2010 when David Gold and David Sullivan took over. But Chaudhuri has found that in only half of transfers of peak-age players those in their mid- to late-twenties do they end up playing 50 per cent of minutes for the club they sign for. Arsenal 3-2 Watford: Hornets haven't been good enough this season - Deeney. "So for us to be able to deal with that and get theteam spirit to come back, was remarkable.". contact the editor here. Everybody wins. We stopped for a year and we were relegated. This year, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that tax officials in Italy and Spain were investigating the familys clubs, alleging a complex ownership structure including offshore companies helped to funnel revenues from Udinese and Granada away from local tax authorities, all to provide more funding to Watford. Should a club hire a player on their recommendation, a scout earns a bonus of a few hundred pounds. Place small sums into lots of high-risk ventures. Joined Watford in December 2022. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Manchester United, the richest club in the world, employ 50 full-time scouts globally. A few weeks ago, SirElton John, international pop star, sent a message to Scott Duxbury, chief executive of Watford football club. Joined Watford in August 2022. One strategy is to use the loan market to their advantage. To create a team to take on local giants such as AC Milan and Juventus, they deployed scouts far and wide. "We have always said we are here for the long-term and we will not allow this one moment of great disappointment to stop the continued development of this club over the next eight years and beyond. Too often, if the football isnt successful, then the whole club is written off as being on the wrong path. Talk of buying Watford began around six months ago and negotiations started in March. It's the biggest achievement in my career. A lot of the bigger clubs, they will look at a player and they need a little more convincing, a little more proof. Still, the longer they stay in the Premier League, the richer the club get. Clubs such as Liverpool and Arsenal have invested millions of pounds building in-house teams. But is it bad? Heurelho Gomes, who is likely to start in goal on Saturday, was a free signing. Scott Duxbury Nationality: English Qualified as a lawyer and worked in that capacity for West Ham before becoming their chief executive. For his 2018 bookThe Away Game, author Sebastian Abbot followed Spaniard Josep Colomer who, as a coach at Barcelona, nurtured a youthfulLionel Messi before the Argentine developed into the worlds best player. Role Active Director Appointed on 12 July 2012 . We want everyone to understand we accept that whats happened on the field of play, particularly at home, is unacceptable. On Monday, Pozzo and Duxbury added: "Every club wants to be playing at the highest possible level. On the pitch, this season has been unacceptably poor especially in front of yourselves, our own supporters, who deserve much, much better than what youve had to endure. Scott Duxbury, Watford FC Chairman, said: "We are thrilled to welcome Stake as our principal shirt sponsor ahead of the 2021/2022 season. HP10 9TY. This club means everything to me. The Pozzos may be the family with their name above the door but it will be former West Ham United duo Scott Duxbury and Gian Luca Nani who will be running the club on a daily basis. About David Bernard Fransen British businessman and board member of Watford FC, David Fransen has a net worth of $104.26 million. Creative midfielder for Hajduk Split, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Austria Salzburg during an 18-year playing career. "I've always said from day one that together we can achieve great things and it's not just rhetoric, it's the truth," he said. We dont have an owner taking money out [or] as a vehicle for him to make money.. Watford FC Chairman & CEO Scott Duxbury shares his thoughts ahead of Saturdays Premier League clash with Burnley We are very proud of this football club. Id take it as a point of failure, says Duxbury. We always watch with our eyes first, he says. To keep up with their peers, Watford are increasing their spending on acquisitions. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. The decision over Pearson has been an emotional, impulsive decision. However, in reality the head coach is naturally involved in discussions but the key is he is one cog of the mechanism not the entire engine. Other organisations maintain a similar constellation of clubs. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. For me personally, its more trying to improve as a player by getting the experience that I need to get and hopefully go on to bigger things. Chalobah was recently called up by the England national team. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Others follow a similar method. If we need their support with regards to money, we will get it. There are modern efforts to improve scouting through the use of data analytics. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. While the club has sought to extend invites to a broad church of the supporter base, everyone can have a voice whether representing a group or individually by contacting the Supporter Liaison Team via supporters@watfordfc.com. Fosters not consistent. Speaking to the club's matchday broadcast Hive Live after the game, the chairman explained just how difficult things had been throughout the last season with no matchday revenuedue to the coronavirus outbreak and said the achievement meant "everything" to him. The only place youll be able to find fresh content from throughout the club, including behind-the-scenes access at training, interviews with stars past and present and all the best action from each and every Watford FC Premier League game. He ended up moving to West Ham and worked his way from legal advisor to chief executive, when he worked closely with Nani and Gianfranco Zola. Scott Duxbury - Manager profile | Transfermarkt Scott Duxbury Watford President Championship Appointed: Nov 2, 2016 imago images + Date of birth/Age: Mar 1, 1972 (50) Citizenship: England Profile History Stats Personal Record Manager career Players used Honours News Personal Details Stats No information available. If we need their support with scouting networks, players and commercial know-how, then they are very much there for us in a supporting function, rather than interfering in the day-to-day running of the club. . The enshittification of apps is real. HP10 9TY. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, . There, I meet two of Watfords key leaders Duxbury, 46, a square-shouldered Englishman in a pinstripe suit, and technical director Filippo Giraldi, a 43-year-old Italian with an unkempt air. IMPORTANT NOTICEFINALLY, we have the new official winter patch! Their greatest finds include Chilean striker Alexis Snchez, who has gone on to play for European superpowers such as Barcelona, Arsenal and Manchester United. He had been bought just a season earlier for 11.5m from Brazils Fluminense but Duxbury says he was actually the clubs second choice for a new attacking player. Watford have been criticised for their propensity to fire managers. most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more. Though there is a desire to develop other parts of Watfords business, from expanding their stadium and seeking sponsorship deals, the obsession is trading players. Truth be told there is a myth about Watfords transfer set-up. He decided to do something about it and the result is the Routes App - a digital record of a scholar's journey. All major decisions are made by a triumvirate of Pozzo, Duxbury and Giraldi. Comments have been closed on this article. info@trainingground.guru, About To pretend the league situation is anything other than it is would be futile the stark reality of the Premier League table bears witness to that. If you look at the world in front of you, there is somewhere a better player than [the one] you are chasing., The same approach applies to managers. Click HERE to sync your online/mobile calendar with all the club's 2021/22 fixtures. A fair assessment is they get one in three signings right, which in the current transfer market is a pretty high success rate. About. "Relegation'stough as it is, but when you have a worldwide pandemic, you have the Coronavirus, it nearly brought the club to its knees and to be able to navigate through that, and come back and be back in the Premier League, it's everything. Scott Duxbury sets out #watfordfc's position on Project Restart. It's about respecting our supporters and our club. But for a club with Watfords limited resources survival is the primary objective (the bottom three teams each season are relegated). If you look at the balance sheet of Watford, what people would see as a negative in terms of certain incomes being low Gino sees as a positive, because he believes with the clubs fan base, Watford can grow. Duxbury said: Their whole philosophy is that they believe in the men they put in place and they are there to provide support. Training Ground Guru Data profile of Scott Duxbury who is contracted to Watford. Earlier that day, Watford had lost 4-0 to English Premier League rivals Bournemouth on a dismal, drizzly day at their home ground of Vicarage Road. For ourselves, that would do a huge disservice to a great body of staff who are the very heartbeat of what Watford Football Club is all about; the path it was set on by the pioneering family initiatives driven by Elton John and Graham Taylor. Even so, the Watford way is not to be tampered with. Yet a better way to understand how the club play the transfer market is to look at their wage bill the fifth lowest in the division. Highly experienced, having held senior recruitment roles with Fulham, Wolves and Brentford. Duxbury explained: The Pozzos were quite clear that they wanted a London club because they saw that as a real attraction in terms of signing players and growing. British businessman and board member of Watford FC, David Fransen has a net worth of$104.26 million. Captain Troy Deeney said he does not know if he has played his last game for the club. They try to keep the identity of the club, so I think Watford fans should be really encouraged. The only thing at this time that remains in our gift is to work and to work harder. Hopefully it won't be delayed & we can come back to business soon!Thank you so far for the trust & preference, especially those who became premium members! A brief summary of attendees and headline areas discussed will be publicised after each meeting, with more detailed notes from any such conversations circulated confidentially among Fans Committee participants. Comments have been closed on this article. . But fortunes changed under Nigel Pearson and the former Leicester boss guided Watford out of the relegation zone with seven victories and 25 points from his 20 games in charge. "That is not to detract from mistakes that were made surrounding the team this season. The Pozzos were keen to buy an English club following the success of Granada and after discussing several possibilities, the family decided Watford were the perfect project. Academic research suggests the best predictor of a teams league placing is its wage bill. But what if Watford simply underpay their players relative to their true worth? A Gannett Company. Those regimes are motivated, at least in part, by marketing the brands of the owners. But outliers such as Sterling and Bale (who have each gone on to command combined transfer fees in excess of 100m) distract from the brutal realities. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Date: 27/07/2020 By: Watford FC Statement from Hornets' Owner and Chairman & CEO . Everybody wins. Picture: Youtube/WatfordFC Watford chairman and CEO Scott Duxbury has described the club's promotion to the Premier League as the biggest achievement in his career. That is why he chose Watford. Editors' Code of Practice. Goalkeeper Ben Foster cost 3.5m and Jose Holebas 2.5m. "Watford have never built with a manger, you would not put a family photo on your desk or buy a house in the area. We had the worldwide pandemic, we had no fans here. The club simply changed tack. Theydidn't see quite what we were doing, but I like to think that, as we proved what we were trying to do, the family stayed with us and then they saw that we were trying to build a football club that was going to achievesuccess. I never fall in love with a player, adds Giraldi. There is a long list of top footballers who have emerged through Udineses ranks, including Colombias Juan Cuadrado, Moroccos Medhi Benatia and Slovenias Samir Handanovi. You, our supporters, deserve more. Moving on? personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to The government has made that clear and the culture secretary Oliver Dowden enforced that . The Pozzos have their own family wealth, he says. He has seen it at Udinese and he has seen it at Granada. Its why weve begun frank and open discussions with supporters and will continue to meet once the season is finished and beyond. Udinese, a small-town club in the north-east of the country, play in Serie A, Italys top division. They watch matches, then attempt to decipher which players have what it takes. Instead, the Pozzo model is akin to venture capital investing. 1. Football is an efficient market: the more a club spends, the better the results. Data profile of Scott Duxbury who is contracted to Watford. Yet, there is scant evidence that even the best scouts can guarantee sure-fire hits. As we chat, ravenous players filter in following a training session. "There were other clubs they spoke to but none really had the history of Watford and quite frankly the potential. Most, however, are obsessive freelancers who travel thousands of miles a season, are paid little more than 40 pence a mile for petrol, and are sustained by a diet of bacon sandwiches. To Watford Fans: From Gino Pozzo & Scott Duxbury. In the past, dictatorial managers such as Manchester Uniteds Sir Alex Ferguson or ArsenalsArsne Wenger, controlled most aspects of a clubs operations, including transfers. The Pozzos are masters of regulatory arbitrage. The family have vehemently denied the allegations. In Pozzos six years of ownership, the club have hired nine head coaches. That is what we are all working towards.. Everyone has been aware of that this week. Was a goalkeeper in his homeland, playing more than 300 senior games, before moving into coaching with Como and then Udinese, Watford's sister club. We dont want a guy from Watford and one from Udinese watching the same game, that would be stupid.. The noise weve heard at Vicarage Road in recent times has been relentless. In an office locked away from the hubbub is Gino Pozzo, Watfords owner. Its a big operation for a club of their size, but those with more money can afford more spotters. Also what the Pozzos don't do is just sign an influx of foreign players. well take a risk. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Compared with their rivals, the club do not tend to buy locally. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can No teams ever been relegated with 11 wins, says Duxbury. Also a well-travelled coach, having managed sides in Croatia, Russia, Turkey, England, Saudi Arabia and China. We dont want that disruption when a coach leaves a football club., Those who take the seat in Watfords dugout understand their task is to work with the players they are given. "I view it as a family," he said. Was Bilics assistant at Hajduk Split, Al-Ittihad, West Brom and Beijing Guoan and does opposition scouting and analysis as well as coaching. If we think a players good enough, we will sign him regardless, says Duxbury. The programme produced a youth team that beat a Brazilian under-17 side featuring Neymar and Philippe Coutinho, who would go on to become two of the most expensive players ever. Watford chairman Scott Duxbury says at least six of the 20 English Premier League clubs are concerned about the plan to use neutral stadiums to finish the season. The clubs scouts had been tracking the player for months but believed he was beyond reach. But with less money to spend, Watford seek a different calculation: buying undervalued players. Editor's . Ultimately, the Premier League is where Duxbury and the rest of the Watford's hierarchy believe the club ought to be. Premier League champions Manchester City have created a database of 300,000 players, with the club identifying just three targets in each position they consider the best in the world.
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