Rory Smith
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1,467 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But that's but that's why they handed control and why over the last ten, fifteen years, we've seen basically every club, I think now without exception in the Premier League, hand control to what Americans would call a front office.
You know, you have one to seven sporting directors, you've got heads of recruitment, you've got the head of analysis, you've got all these people who are meant to be making these decisions collectively and long term because they are thinking about the club's
interests, not just this summer and this season, but into the next two, three years.
They're the ones who are meant to be thinking, Well, we've got this fifteen year old who if if he fulfills his talent, we need to make sure there's a pathway for him.
Who do
Well, I think they all start with B and we we all end up having to quote them endlessly.
Does nobody everyone else seems to have given up on it?
I think Liverpool and City did it to an extent and now seem to have stopped.
And I think that is something that I find
Complete it seems to be this summer something has changed and and Tom kind of
That that is the most coherent and complete explanation for it.
Can I throw
Yeah, but yes, yeah.
I mean what Newcastle have done has been really impressive, but it's reactive to a situation they maybe
wouldn't have chosen.
But yes, I think that that I think that's absolutely fair.
But they didn't want to sell Tanali and Bruno.
I think if they could have kept hold of those they
like a bath or something?
No, it uh it's funny, at the end of the World Cup in the in
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