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Dan Ashworth: Inside the mind of a Technical Director

Training Ground Guru Podcast

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Technical Director

Brighton and Hove Albion host Liverpool in the Premier League on Saturday. Brighton's technical director, Paul Wyn Stanley, says recruitment is a major part of his role but it's not all that he does. He has seven people working for him - Grand Potter, Hope Powell, John Malling, Adam Brett, David Weir, James Bell and Paul Wyn Stanley. His job is to bring together those seven departments like spokes of a wheel. And when one of those head departments leave, you keep the wheel spinning and recruit one of those heads of department. The most likely first-team manager to leave after 14 months? That would be 'Grand Potter', according to Graham Poll.

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