Manchester City hire Huddersfield Town recruitment co-ordinator
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Written by Simon Austin — August 5, 2020
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN recruitment co-ordinator Chris Baker has left the club after three years to join Manchester City.
As Talent ID Co-ordinator, the former physics teacher will co-ordinate scouting work at City Football Group, but will also work closely with Brian Prestidge’s Insights team on integrating data into the process.
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Baker (pictured) started at Huddersfield in August 2017 as scouting co-ordinator before becoming recruitment co-ordinator a year later.
He described his role as “combining traditional scouting with video scouting, advanced statistics and background research.”
This involved setting up and then managing a process for tracking information including scouting reports and statistics, using tools including R Studio and Tableau.
This research and information was then used to inform decision-making about player trading.