SPORTING DIRECTOR Victor Orta reveals how he convinced Marcelo Bielsa to come to Yorkshire and outlines the impact that the Argentine has had at Elland Road.

LEEDS UNITED Sporting Director Victor Orta says the club’s recruitment policy is 70% human judgement and 30% data.

BRIGHTON’S Dan Ashworth says clubs need Technical Directors in order to ensure they are travelling in the right direction over the medium to long term.

LIVERPOOL chief executive Peter Moore says the club has “merged digital and analogue” to create “the essence of a modern football club”.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber has signed a three-year contract extension that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2022.

WATFORD have had 10 managers in seven years, entire changes of the backroom staff and the highest turnover of players - yet it is all part of their strategy and seems to work.

QPR Director of Football Les Ferdinand doubts whether he would have been given his job were it not for the fact the club has an ethnic minority board, as football has a “massive unconscious bias” against BAME executives.

CLUB LEGEND Leon Britton has been appointed as Swansea City’s first Sporting Director, making them the eighth side in the Championship to have this role or equivalent.

RALPH RANGNICK says football clubs can learn from the likes of Porsche and Mercedes by developing a “corporate identity” that remains intact no matter who is in charge.

EVERTON Director of Football Marcel Brands says he is working towards a situation where the club makes only two or three signings in a transfer window - and lets its young players know “there is something possible”.

OSIAN ROBERTS has transformed football in Wales in his 12 years as Technical Director, says former Swansea Head of Coaching David Adams.

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN have hired David Webb from Swedish side Ostersunds to become their new Head of Football Operations.