Leaked Chelsea Scouting Report

blues_r_best · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:08

Ok, this is pretty old (Dating back to 2005), but this is a leaked scouting reporting compiled by Villas Boas who was Mourinho's assistant at the time, and he's now the manager at Porto.

http://www.bragafut.com/artigos/art18.pdf

Quite interesting to see the attention to detail that opposition scouts will go in to in order to get the edge, and also how highly Boas rated the Shearer/Owen partnership...

Greenlizard0 · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:12

Get the edge? It's probably the detail needed at least before an investment is made.

drunkenmaster · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:36

What investment, its a team scouting report, as in, dude will watch match footage of several games in the build up to Chelsea vs Newcastle and produce a scout report for Mourinho to work with.

Most clubs will have similar reports for most teams, it is interesting but a lot should be fairly easily worked out.

pauLAW · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:36

Interesting read!

I could have done a much quicker and more accurate report for Chelsea v Newcastle.

"Jose, you can beat Newcastle easy."

Greenlizard0 · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:50

drunkenmaster said:
What investment, its a team scouting report, as in, dude will watch match footage of several games in the build up to Chelsea vs Newcastle and produce a scout report for Mourinho to work with.

Most clubs will have similar reports for most teams, it is interesting but a lot should be fairly easily worked out.

Ah thought the *.pdf was a scouting report as in report -> potential signing.

Weebull · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:57

Is this related to the agent case that's going through the courts at the moment? Since that seems to involve anyone remotely Portugese.

EDIT: Nope, not even slightly. Like Greenlizard, I thought this would be a player scout.

A2Z · 19 Jan 2011 at 18:08

Greenlizard0 said:
Ah thought the *.pdf was a scouting report as in report -> potential signing.

Indeed, would have been a lot more interesting.

da_mic_1530 · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:01

Thats really interesting, thanks for that. As a Toon fan looking at the team back then I'm suprised he didn't just put

"Kick it at Boumsong and wait for a balls up"

_Gizka_ · 20 Jan 2011 at 00:20

da_mic_1530 said:
Thats really interesting, thanks for that. As a Toon fan looking at the team back then I'm suprised he didn't just put

"Kick it at Boumsong and wait for a balls up"

Surely that was already a Given

Very interesting read though, thanks. Very thorough and meticulate but I suppose its to be expected at this level. Good if the ones in Football Manager came back this detailed :cool:

"andy" · 20 Jan 2011 at 00:36

da_mic_1530 said:
Thats really interesting, thanks for that. As a Toon fan looking at the team back then I'm suprised he didn't just put

"Kick it at Boumsong and wait for a balls up"

lol it pretty much does say that

individual mistakes boumsong mainly - exploit

daz · 20 Jan 2011 at 11:18

Just goes to show the amount of research and behind the scenes statistical and technical analysis a modern head coach/manager has at his disposal.

I would imagine that all [top level] managers have this type of information available to them, but whether it would be of this quality or accuracy is another thing.