PRW. 5,631 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 By Sportsmail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:43, 18 February 2017 | UPDATED: 16:47, 18 February 2017 Southampton director of scouting Ross Wilson has held talks with Rangers as they look to appoint a director of football. The Scottish Premiership club are understood to have held interviews with a number of candidates this week in London's Park Lane Hilton hotel. Rangers want a director of football and new manager after the departures of Mark Warburton, David Weir and Frank McParland, who are taking legal action against the club. Wilson, 34, is considered to be among the frontrunners for the director of football role. He graduated from Strathclyde University before working with Falkirk, Watford and Huddersfield Town. The Ibrox club take on travel to Dundee on Sunday afternoon. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz4Z3bsV5TS Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcb 1,167 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Would explain why Robertson, Dickson & G Park were in London on Wed/Thur last week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lloyd72 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Just now, jcb said: Would explain why Robertson, Dickson & G Park were in London on Wed/Thur last week. They were there talking to a coach about a player for next season Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger77 742 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Funny enough I spoke to someone this morning that worked with him at Falkirk and keeps in touch with him. He said that Wilson hasn't been offered a job but is quote " thinking about working with Rangers", but would be keener if the club was in a better shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smile 26,610 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/34202470 There have been dramas and difficult choices along the way, but Ross Wilson's journey has taken him to the summit of the British game. If there was a moment when the sheer scale of his progress was emphasised, it might have been during the summer, when he met the Southampton manager Ronald Koeman for the first time. "I was taken aback by Ronald because he's so low ego," the club's new director of scouting and recruitment reflects. "He is a legend of the game." Wilson has never played football to any significant level and graduated in social sciences at Strathclyde University. Yet he is representative of a growing trend in football, with clubs beginning to acknowledge that leading positions are not the sole domain of former players. "There will be some clubs steeped in the tradition that you do need to have played the game, but fortunately the club's I've been at, the mindset has been very open," Wilson says. Each stop on the road has been a reward for his ability, passion and intelligence, qualities that Southampton prized enough to take the 32-year-old to the Premier League from Huddersfield Town. Beginning as a Bairn Wilson started out at Falkirk, where in effect he stumbled into a career in football. A friend's father worked for the media department and needed reports on the under-18 team's games. There was no looking back, and particularly not after the first-team manager John Hughes decided that Wilson was a good fit for the club. At the end of that first season he said to me that they wanted to bring somebody in to do a player liaison role," Wilson recalls. "I just agreed, because that's what you did with Yogi. "I was playing at it at the time, I never thought that 12 years later I'd still be in the industry. I only did that job that they created for six or seven months and then they created another one, and it took off from there. I loved it. "What you see is what you get with Yogi, he's very straight talking, very direct, absolutely intense, driving you on all the time. You could go in the shower at 10 o'clock at night and come out and he's phoned you five times. "It might be something that wasn't that important, but it was to him. If you give your opinion when he asks for it and you work hard, he's phenomenal." Following a plan Wilson did not enter football with a specific ambition, but his five years at Falkirk left him with a clear idea of where he wanted to go. Hughes left for Hibernian and wanted Wilson to join him, while another opportunity arose to work alongside John Park, Celtic's football development manager and chief scout. Wilson, though, had his sights set on England. "To not go to Hibs with John was really tough," he admits. "There was a point where I thought he was never going to talk to me again. It just didn't fit for me at "How many times do you get the opportunity to join Celtic? Probably once. The success that John Park has had at Celtic in terms of player recruitment is huge. I'm close with John and he's been a huge influence on me as well. That was a big decision, but it was for the same reason, that I had something else in mind." Instead, Wilson ended up at Watford. That decision initially seemed a misjudgement, after the man who hired him - Julian Winter - left when Wilson was four days into the job. Twenty-four hours later, the club was taken over, but Wilson embraced the upheaval as another opportunity to grow. "You're sitting in the office thinking, 'God, I'm a guy from Falkirk, what am I doing here? They've just sacked the fellow who's brought me in and the club's been taken over'," he laughs. "But I had a brilliant chairman in Graham Taylor, who gave incredible support. We had three different owners, but they never replaced the chief exec so I got a whole host of responsibilities that I probably wouldn't have got otherwise. "After the final change in ownership [to the Pozzo family in 2012] I could have stayed and worked with an Italian technical director, but I went to Huddersfield, who had just won promotion from League One. "Dean Hoyle [the chairman] is a Huddersfield supporter and he's ploughed £40m into the club. What he wanted to do was build the model that we had at Watford, a proper training ground, academy and scouting network. The club finished in three consecutive highest positions and made quite a lot of money in player trading." Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Honestly do not know if he has the experience for the job, but I would've thought not at 34. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenerife Bear 1,748 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 34 seems awfully young for a post which i assume needs extensive contacts and experience within the game. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRW. 5,631 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 4 minutes ago, Courtyard Bear said: Honestly do not know if he has the experience for the job, but I would've thought not at 34. Been successful at 3 clubs in far better shape than us though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEPPS BOY 73,928 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 If the Daily Mail is saying it then it has substance. Stephen Mcgowan is DK's go to guy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam1872 251 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 If he is good enough, he is old enough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Just now, PRW. said: Been successful at 3 clubs in far better shape than us though. 3 smaller clubs as well, as I said mate I've no idea if he's up to the job but his age would against him for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lloyd72 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Wilson-Director of Football Park-Head of Recruitment De Boer-Manager please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcb 1,167 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 2 minutes ago, Tenerife Bear said: 34 seems awfully young for a post which i assume needs extensive contacts and experience within the game. Wouldn't claim to have any knowledge about him but seems to be progressing nicely. I think he would have several contacts in the game by now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 1 minute ago, Lloyd72 said: Wilson-Director of Football Park-Head of Recruitment De Boer-Manager please. Is the DoF not head of recruitment as well? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lloyd72 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 11 minutes ago, Courtyard Bear said: Is the DoF not head of recruitment as well? It can be but he will probably have someone below him who takes care of all the scouting I think John Park would be perfect for it since they are close. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenerife Bear 1,748 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 8 minutes ago, jcb said: Wouldn't claim to have any knowledge about him but seems to be progressing nicely. I think he would have several contacts in the game by now. Possibly, i can't help but get his age out of my head though. It's probably my own ignorance but my goodness, he is younger than me. Director of Football at Rangers Football Club. It's an incredibly important job, the responsibility is enormous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC Eagle 4,888 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, Courtyard Bear said: 3 smaller clubs as well, as I said mate I've no idea if he's up to the job but his age would against him for me. Southampton are a well established EPL club with a renowned academy and a reputation for finding players that add value. There financially and technically streets ahead of where we are now. Maybe from a tradition and support point of view they are a 'smaller' club buu, in all the aspects that count in modern football we are playing catch up. Wilson will have an understanding of the DoF role that we, hopefully, are implementing from his contact with Les Reed. If we can copy Southamptons structure then I believe we will be able to grow exponentially. With the right level of investment to match then the journey back to our rightful place will be smoother and, importantly, sustainable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenerife Bear 1,748 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 14 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said: If the Daily Mail is saying it then it has substance. Stephen Mcgowan is DK's go to guy. Does Scott Burns also work for the Mail? He is also very close to the club. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEPPS BOY 73,928 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 4 minutes ago, Tenerife Bear said: Does Scott Burns also work for the Mail? He is also very close to the club. Express? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDFM 3,809 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 It's all falling into place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 11 minutes ago, Lloyd72 said: It can be but he will probably have someone below him who takes care of all the scouting I think John Park would be perfect for it since they are close. Was John Park not in with a shout of DoF. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEFTONG 60,125 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 For a split second I thought the headline said RAB WILSON... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu 981 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Why are we going down this road why pay 2men to do a one man job will DeBoer be keen on someone looking over his shoulder or are we going for a young manager where a DOF would be the type of move you would expect Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, RFC Eagle said: Southampton are a well established EPL club with a renowned academy and a reputation for finding players that add value. There financially and technically streets ahead of where we are now. Maybe from a tradition and support point of view they are a 'smaller' club buu, in all the aspects that count in modern football we are playing catch up. Wilson will have an understanding of the DoF role that we, hopefully, are implementing from his contact with Les Reed. If we can copy Southamptons structure then I believe we will be able to grow exponentially. With the right level of investment to match then the journey back to our rightful place will be smoother and, importantly, sustainable. Hopefully mate if he gets the job, of course on the plus side you could say he's young and could be with us for many a year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRW. 5,631 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 Just now, Zulu said: Why are we going down this road why pay 2men to do a one man job will DeBoer be keen on someone looking over his shoulder or are we going for a young manager where a DOF would be the type of move you would expect De Boer has never worked as a manager without a DOF above him. He had it at Ajax and Inter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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