Wednesday briefing: Brighton axe majority of scouts in recruitment overhaul

Brighton & Hove Albion have let go the majority of their full-time recruitment scouts as part of a restructuring of the envied department, according to a report from The Daily Telegraph.

It is understood that staff at the club, whose owner Tony Bloom relies heavily on a secretive data model, were last week told that recruitment and the identification of players will now operate differently, with three full-time scouts being dispensed with. Others may have been redeployed.

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