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Manchester City’s Bradley Wall has been appointed Head of Recruitment at Portsmouth. He replaces Phil Boardman, who left in February to become Senior European Scout for Everton.

Sam Jewell has officially started work at Chelsea as Director of Global Recruitment after completing a period of gardening leave at Brighton.

Head of Football Development Steve Weaver is leaving Norwich City at the end of the season after almost seven years.

Did Newcastle United fail to do their due diligence on £55m signing Sandro Tonali, who has been banned this season for breaching betting rules? We asked former Scotland Yard Detective Neil Whitbread, who now helps clubs with intelligence on potential signings.

JAMES VAUGHAN has been promoted to the new role of Head of Academy Recruitment and Player Pathways at Everton. The 35-year-old, who made 60 appearances for the club as a player, rejoined the Blues as Loans Pathway Manager in September 2022.

SAM JEWELL has accepted a senior recruitment role at Chelsea and been placed on gardening leave by Brighton. Jewell, who is the son of former Wigan manager Paul Jewell, is expected to start work with Chelsea in November.

IPSWICH TOWN Head of Recruitment Sam Williams is leaving the club after two years to return to Manchester United.

MAX HAHN has joined West Ham United as their new Head of Technical Recruitment and Analysis, as Technical Director Tim Steidten makes his mark behind the scenes.

JORDAN MILES has left Aberdeen after seven months to become the new Head of Recruitment at Leeds United.

NEGOTIATIONS MANAGER Sam Barnett has left Manchester United after seven years.

HELENA COSTA, English football’s first and only female Head of Recruitment, has left Watford after less than a year.

UNION SAINT-GILLOISE are one of the smartest teams in Europe and their culture is a big reason why. Sporting Director Chris O'Loughlin tells TGG how the club scout for character.

AHEAD of the January transfer window, Brentford Technical Director Lee Dykes outlines the seven stages of the club's recruitment process.

MATTHEW LEWIS has been appointed Positional Scouting Lead by Norwich City as they continue to build out the department.

NORWICH CITY have brought forward the arrival of new Sporting Director Ben Knapper by a fortnight following four league defeats in a row.

BEN KNAPPER outlined why his Loan Manager role at Arsenal could be the perfect preparation for becoming a Sporting Director when he spoke at TGG’s Scouting and Recruitment Webinar last year.

BEN KNAPPER is leaving Arsenal after 13 years to become the new Sporting Director of Norwich City.

CHELSEA have hired Jeremy Leyde from West Brom to head up their new position-specific scouting department.

LUKE FEDORENKO has been promoted to Head of Academy Recruitment as part of a restructure at Manchester United.

JOE SHULBERG has been promoted to Academy Manager at Category One Norwich City.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber has announced he is leaving the club after six years. TGG looks back at his tenure and evaluates his legacy.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber is leaving the club after six years. An external recruitment process, led by the club’s board of directors, to appoint a replacement is already underway.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have completed their new Academy Recruitment department following a major overhaul.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have completed their new position-specific scouting team with a number of new hires. As TGG reported in January, the Magpies have moved to the position-specific model that Technical Director Dan Ashworth implemented when he was at Brighton.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have hired Claire Burrows from Leicester City as their Academy recruitment revamp takes shape. Technical Director Dan Ashworth has made improving the club’s Academy productivity a key focus of his first year with the Magpies.

SAM STANTON is being promoted to replace Tom Stockwell as Head of Scouting Operations at Southampton. Stockwell is leaving the club after almost 12 years to join Nottingham Forest.

LYNDON TOMLINSON is leaving his role as Head of National Recruitment for the 12s to 16s at Leeds United to join the investment group FMCF.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have appointed Norwich City’s Senior First Team Performance Analyst Josh Appleyard as a Positional Analyst as they continue to upgrade their scouting and recruitment department.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have hired Arsenal’s Edward Black as their new Academy Lead Scout. Technical Director Dan Ashworth is intent on improving the Academy’s productivity and is currently leading an overhaul of their youth scouting and recruitment.

OUR guest on Episode #48 of the Training Ground Guru Podcast is Norwich City's Stuart Webber, who we've often described as the 'purest' example of a Sporting Director in this country.

WHEN Stuart Webber arrived at Norwich City in 2017, staff worked out of 49 Portakabins at the training ground. Now the Canaries have a state-of-the-art facility that is the envy of rivals. TGG was given a tour.

NEWCASTLE UNITED have appointed Manchester City’s Paul McLaren as their Head of National Youth Scouting for the 13s to 18s.

GUS WILLIAMS is stepping down as Blackburn Rovers’ Head of Recruitment after six months to return to the Football Association of Wales (FAW).

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 club’s fanbase in the last year.

SAM JEWELL has been appointed Head of Recruitment at Brighton following Paul Winstanley’s move to Chelsea.

LEE SARGESON has left Brighton after almost six years to become Manager of Scouting Operations at Everton.

BIRMINGHAM CITY have plugged gaps in their backroom team by appointing Frank McParland as Head of Recruitment and Joe Carnall as Chief Scout.

BLACKBURN ROVERS have unveiled their new-look recruitment team after making three appointments in recent months.

NORWICH CITY have developed an innovative alternative to the Hoffenheim videowall with their own analysis buggy.

DEAN AUSTIN has been appointed Head of Recruitment at Coventry City, replacing Chris Badlan, who was named Sporting Director at Blackpool last month.

PAUL WINSTANLEY has left Brighton after eight years to become Director of Global Talent and Transfers at Chelsea. The Blues have revamped their recruitment department following the takeover by Chairman Todd Boehly and co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali in May.

CHELSEA’S Head of International Scouts, Scott McLachlan, has left the club after 11 years.

GUS WILLIAMS has been appointed as Blackburn Rovers’ new Head of Recruitment after 22 years with the Football Association of Wales.

JOE SHIELDS has left Manchester City after nine years to become Head of Senior Recruitment at Southampton.

ALLAN RUSSELL has been appointed as Norwich City’s first specialist set-piece coach. The 41-year-old worked with England as a forwards coach from 2017 to 2021 before becoming assistant manager at Aberdeen in 2021/22.

FORMER Tottenham Head of Recruitment Brian Carey has joined Reading in the same role.

TOTTENHAM Head of Recruitment Brian Carey has left the club after six years. Carey initially joined Spurs as Senior Scout for the North West of England, before his role was expanded to Europe and then Head of Recruitment.

NEIL WHITBREAD is a former Scotland Yard Detective who is now helping football clubs do due diligence on potential signings with security and investigations solutions consultancy Silverseal.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber has defended his decision to take on a number of mountain challenges both this year and next, culminating in a climb up Everest.

MANCHESTER UNITED’S two most senior scouts, Jim Lawlor and Marcel Bout, have left the club after a combined 24 years.

ARSENAL manager Mikel Arteta has paid tribute to Steve Rowley and his players will wear black armbands in memory of the club's former Chief Scout during tonight’s Premier League game against Chelsea.

PETE BULMER has left Blackburn Rovers after two-and-a-half years to become Senior Scouting Manager responsible for centre backs at Brighton.

NICK HAMMOND has explained his role as a January transfer advisor for Newcastle United and said it could be the hardest window that the club’s new ownership face.

IPSWICH TOWN have hired Sam Williams from Manchester United to become their new Head Recruitment.

LEEDS UNITED Director of Football Victor Orta has made a passionate defence of the club’s policy of operating with a slimmed-down squad and suggested it will continue in future.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber will do four more mountain climbs this year as he builds up to taking on Mount Everest for his new Summit Foundation in 2023.

LIAM BRAMLEY has been appointed first-team coach at Norwich City as Head Coach Dean Smith completes his backroom team for this season.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber has signed a new 12-month rolling contract with the club that will take effect from the end of this season.

NORWICH CITY have appointed Dean Smith as their new Head Coach, with Craig Shakespeare as his assistant.

ASSISTANT Eddie Riemer, first-team coach Christopher John and Head of Performance Chris Domogalla have all departed Carrow Road along with Head Coach Daniel Farke.

MARIELA NISOTAKI, the only full-time female football scout in the UK, has been promoted to the new role of Head of Emerging Talent by Norwich City.

NORWICH CITY have revealed plans for the next stage of development at their Lotus Training Centre.

NEIL ADAMS has been promoted to Assistant Sporting Director and Lee Dunn to Head of Recruitment in a major revamp of senior roles at Norwich City.

JOHN IGA says his new role as Norwich City’s Head of Data, Strategy and Innovation is about “trying to out-smart our opponents and really out-think them to give advantages that can help us achieve our goals.”

DEFENDER Ben Gibson has revealed the lengths that Norwich went to to sign him on loan from Burnley last year - and how they ‘knew more about me than me’ at their first meeting.

NORWICH CITY Head of Performance Chris Domogalla says the team will still look to “dominate the ball and the game” if they are promoted to the Premier League.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber explains why the club are playing an 'infinite game', rather than a finite one.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber says the club went into the Premier League with their eyes open - and will come back stronger next time.

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.

NORWICH Head of Performance Chris Domogalla charts his journey from Dortmund to Carrow Road and explains his performance philosophy.

NORWICH Head of Performance Chris Domogalla explains the ways in which the club have had to adapt to the physical demands of the Premier League, with the help of Irish science and analytics firm Kitman Labs.

COACHES from Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham were among the attendees at a packed TGG Youth Development Conference on Wednesday, while Manchester United defender Phil Jones also made a special appearance.

SPORTING DIRECTOR Stuart Webber insists Norwich City will stick to their values despite being promoted to the “millionaires’ league”.

A GROUP of Norwich City fans and investors are set for a windfall if - as seems increasingly likely - the Canaries are promoted to the Premier League.

NORWICH CITY loans manager Neil Adams tells Connor Southwell why his role is becoming increasingly important at the Championship table-toppers.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber explains how the club has been rebuilt on and off the pitch since his arrival in April 2017.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber says he is hoping for “real clarity” from Leeds United about the extent of their spying - and for them to “show a bit of class” and apologise for their actions.

FORMER Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer believes Ben Marshall still has a big part to play in Norwich’s promotion push this season.

CHRIS BADLAN, Norwich’s Head of European Scouting, has been appointed as Head of Recruitment at Coventry City.

NORWICH CITY majority shareholder Delia Smith says she wants her club to be built in the image of Guy Roux’s Auxerre.

NORWICH CITY have smashed the £3.5 million target for their Canaries Bond - a day before it was even due to go on public sale.

NORWICH CITY have launched a £3.5m bond through a platform run by Gianluca Vialli in order to “build a state-of-the-art Academy”.

NORWICH Head of Sport Science Chris Domogalla says the players are “running faster and longer” following changes in training he has implemented.

NORWICH CITY will retain Category 1 Academy status and become “leaders in youth development” for the entire country, says Sporting Director Stuart Webber.

NICK DAVIES, the former Norwich Head of Sports Science, is returning to West Ham to work under David Moyes.

DEAN WRIGHT was previously Football Foundation Phase Coach at Huddersfield Town before his post closed when the Terriers decided to stop running any teams below Under-18 level.

NORWICH CITY have landed Head of Academy Recruitment Steve McGavin from arch rivals Ipswich Town.

NORWICH CITY have completed their review of the club's Academy set-up, resulting in a total of five staff losing their jobs.

NORWICH CITY legend Darren Huckerby has been sacked as the club’s Under-23 assistant following a review of staffing and practices in the Academy.

STUART WARDLE has left his role as Head Physio at Norwich City, meaning the bosses of every football department at the club have been replaced since Sporting Director Stuart Webber took over in April.

NORWICH announce the news we told you on Friday - that Steve Weaver has been appointed as their new Academy manager.

STEVE WEAVER has been appointed as the new Head of Academy at Norwich - but his arrival has not been officially announced because of the terms of Stuart Webber’s departure from Huddersfield.

STEVE WEAVER is set to take over as Head of Norwich’s Academy at the end of September, when his gardening leave with Huddersfield Town has ended.

NORWICH CITY academy manager Richard Money has left the club by mutual consent as the complete overhaul of the football side of the business continues apace under Sporting Director Stuart Webber.

GOALKEEPING coach Dean Kiely has left Norwich by mutual consent, with Sporting Director Stuart Webber set to bring in another member of the Borussia Dortmund II backroom team.

Matt Gill has been confirmed as Norwich City’s Under-23s manager.

LEE DARNBROUGH has been appointed to the newly-created role of Head of Recruitment by Hull City.

HEAD of Sports Science Nick Davies has left Norwich with immediate effect as the club continues an overhaul under Stuart Webber.

BRITISH coaches will get more opportunities and progress further if they are willing to work with a Sporting Director, Norwich’s Stuart Webber believes.

IPSWICH Managing Director Ian Milne says he does not believe in Norwich’s new structure and prefers a manager to be in charge of all footballing matters.

WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.

WHY aren't English Under-23 coaches getting the same chances as Norwich's new boss Daniel Farke?

THEY say never go back in life, but Norwich Sporting Director Stuart Webber has returned to Borussia Dortmund to make an identical managerial appointment to the one he did at Huddersfield 18 months ago.

ALAN IRVINE says it is “astonishing” that neither he nor his coaches know whether they will still be at Norwich City next season.

SPORTING DIRECTOR Stuart Webber has continued his whirlwind start to life at Norwich City by releasing seven players and holding informal talks with Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill.

NORWICH’S new sporting director, Stuart Webber, has appointed heads of UK and European scouting as part of his revamp of the club’s recruitment.

NORWICH CITY have produced a superb ‘day in the life’ video making a mockery of the belief that a footballer’s working day consists of a couple of hours on the training pitch.

SPORTING DIRECTOR Stuart Webber has immediately made his presence felt at Norwich City by sacking technical director Ricky Martin and recruitment chiefs Lee Darnbrough and Tony Spearing.

STUART WEBBER has been confirmed as the new Sporting Director of Norwich City.