TA: After Becky left, Manchester City + City Group s senior management has changed drastically, and it is still screening + selecting supervisors

Hupu September 13th News TheAthleticUK reporter Jordan Campbell wrote the exclusive column of Manchester City.

Guardiola and CEO Soriano are masters in their respective fields, while Begiristan is recognized as the most "human" of all the club's leaders.

A staff member evaluated him as "kind and kind" and was able to easily control different fields and roles. He might be considered the kind of person who ruled with fear, but he has a civilian temperament.

After Becky's resignation, Manchester City encountered a change in management staff that might be the biggest Guardiola era.

TA can reveal that another Manchester City core executive, Brian Mawood, has demoted his position to part-time. He joined Liverpool in 2009 as Football Director and later promoted to General Manager of Global Football. In this important position, he has been involved in designing the Academic School’s architecture and several other key departments.

In April this year, Liverpool recruited Laurie Shaw, the director of football data at City Football Group, a move that is regarded as a major move in the industry.

In June, scout and recruitment director James Smith switched to Everton after playing for 11 years at the club; in July, Gavin Fleger resigned as director of talent management and development paths and became CEO of Salford City.

It is said that during the six-month handover, Viana was like Begiristan's "shadow". Instead of controlling every detail, he deliberately attended the meeting and adopted the transfer shortlist he inherited.

Despite this, despite careful planning, the transfer of power at Manchester City's senior executives is very different from what Guardiola expected when he took office in 2016.

People originally thought that Guardiola's goal was to conquer English football, build Manchester City into the leading European football force, and then leave a few years later, just like he did in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Begiristan will find a successor first, and then he will most likely leave as well.

Bergiristan was originally happy to step down from Manchester City on the night of Istanbul in 2023. On that day, Manchester City won the European Triple Champions League and finally qualified for the Champions League. This is his ultimate goal when joining Manchester City from Barcelona. But Guardiola found more reasons to stay, so Begiristan also stayed.

Therefore, another restructuring plan is in the process of planning, and a meeting will be held next week to discuss specific plans.

Clive Reeves and Bigon are the leaders of the restructuring negotiations, both of whom joined as part of the restructuring after Bellada left last October.

Reeves serves as Director of Global Football Business and Bigon serves as Director of Global Football. The Italian was appointed to replace Mawood, who retained the decision-making power but gradually faded out of his responsibilities. Reeves and Bigon are stepping up plans after Manchester City formed an interim committee to meet the challenges of this summer’s transfer window.

Added to Bigon are scouts Gary Worthington, Dean Ramsdale, Sam Hood and Performance Director Simon Timson, who have held similar positions in the Cricket Association of England and Wales, the British Sports Association and the Grass Tennis Association.

sources, who declined to be named to protect the relationship, believe that preliminary signs are showing that City will adopt a similar strategy to when Berrada left the team, reassigning his responsibilities to several people.

One of the people who benefited from it was the transaction director Carlos Raphael Molson, commonly known as "Rafi".

In last year's reorganization, he actually shared Bellada's broad responsibilities with Reeves and stepped up last year to assist Begiristan in negotiations, one of Bellada's previous responsibilities.

The two often conduct preliminary screenings for potential signing players together, and Lafite even led some negotiations this summer.

After graduating from George Washington University, Rafi served in Washington United and New York City. At Manchester City, he is not involved in the trivial matters of football, but focuses on signing players. It is this kind of self-knowledge that has won him a lot of praise within Manchester City.

Manchester City Group is huge, with about 100 scouts around the world and a "rookie" team, investing £20 million a year for the inspection of players aged 16 to 21.

Manchester City's first team has only four or five scouts, while the Youth Training Academy has a complete team, with Alan Watson, John Gannon, Brendan McFarlane and Ruben Mato being European scouts. They each take charge of one area and several specific positions.

They also have a 15-person data team that is responsible for the operation of the entire group, and CFG's scouts in various regional markets are usually responsible for finding local players. Scouts are well aware of the specific players Guardiola is looking for at each position and will provide a shortlist for him to evaluate.

People believe that Manchester City executives lack talent with practical scouting experience, and strengthening the signing team by appointing or promoting several senior scouts may be a solution.

Allen Watson is now Manchester City's most senior scout at the moment, while Gary Worthington has a strong influence in signings as the head of emerging scouts and is expected to hold a more senior position.

At present, no person in charge of any senior recruitment positions has been identified, but delegating the responsibilities of the vacant position to existing employees can help streamline the large workforce. The size of the city football group means that many different departments are providing information to the management chain, and it may be difficult for people within the organization to distinguish the role they play in the decision-making process.

However, the collection of this information often leads to more correct decisions than wrong ones, thanks in large part to Begiristan's intuition.

employees say he is able to filter information and focus on important things. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen him panic,” said an employee who asked not to be named. "He always knows his work priorities and work styles."

In the post-Baykee era, Manchester City had to solve much more problems than they thought.