United chiefs intend for the analyst to work within the club's extensive scouting and recruitment department to crunch numbers on potential targets in specific areas around the globe. The job advert points out the club want someone who will "generate quantitative and qualitative data that supports decision making in the identification of players with the potential to play for Manchester United". (Image: AFP)The advert continues that they must work with the recruitment analysis team to "collate and analyse Manchester United specific technical, tactical and physical benchmarks". During Ed Woodward's tenure, Manchester United's scouting network has trebled in size and spans Europe, South America and Asia. But the Red Devils were only able to land one of the names, Fred, as United also signed full-back prospect Diogo Dalot and back-up keeper Lee Grant in this summer's transfer window.

Source: Daily Mirror September 09, 2018 18:45 UTC