The Athletic have revealed that Chelsea could appoint Tottenham’s former head of recruitment Paul Mitchell as their new technical director.
Mitchell worked wonders at Southampton under former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino and followed the Argentine to Tottenham not long after he took charge of the North London club.
The 40-year-old played a key part in Tottenham’s rise under Pochettino, helping the club to secure talents like Dele Alli, Son Heung-min, Kieran Trippier and Toby Alderweireld for cut-price fees.
However, Mitchel decided to leave Spurs and took over as head of recruitment and development at RB Leipzig in 2018 and after two fruitful years with the Bundesliga club, joined Monaco as sporting director in 2020.
The Athletic have now claimed that Chelsea are on the lookout for a new technical director and Mitchell’s name has featured ‘prominently in preliminary conversations’.
Two of the four consortiums competing to buy Chelsea are said to be interested in appointing the former Spurs man.
In addition, it is revealed that Man Utd’s interim head coach Ralf Rangnick has also recommended Mitchell to the United hierarchy, having worked with him at Leipzig previously.
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One can make the case that Tottenham’s decline started not when Mauricio Pochettino left but rather after Mitchell departed. Our recruitment since 2018 has been quite poor.
Let us hope that Paratici is the man to remedy that. While it is early days for the Italian, he has already pulled off some very good signings in the form of Romero, Bentancur and Kulusevski.
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