Director of football who signed Christopher Nkunku and Son Heung-min LEAVES top job as fans say ‘coming to Man Utd soon’
FAMOUS football chief Paul Mitchell, who has been credited with scouting some of the world’s best young talent, has left his role as sporting director at Monaco.
Mitchell enjoyed immense success while at Southampton as well as Tottenham and rumours suggest he left the Ligue 1 giants for a return to the Premier League.
According to transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, the French outfit has replaced the 42-year-old with new CEO Thiago Scuro.
Scuro will oversee all the club’s activities and report to Monaco president Dmitry Rybolovlev.
Mitchell has been previously linked with Manchester United and fans are hopeful this could lead the talented director of football to Old Trafford.
One supporter tweeted: “Joining Manchester United, ownership about to change as well.”
Another commented: “He is better than [Man Utd director of football John] Murtough. Idk why we don’t go after him.”
A third said: “@ManUtd this is who we need.”
This fan posted: “Manchester [United] should hire him.
“And that one wrote: “Get Paul Mitchell to #ManUtd.”
Mitchell started out as a footballer cutting his teeth at Manchester City and Wigan’s youth set up but spent his senior career playing for the lower leagues, mostly on loan from the Latics and MK Dons.
The Mancunian was forced to prematurely retire in 2009 at the age of 27 due to injuries but then found success as a sporting director.
It all started in 2010 at former club MK Dons where he carved his famous philosophy that sees him only signing players under the age of 24, starting with Dele Alli.
After making a name for himself with the Dons he moved to Southampton two years later and pulled off a string of great signings, like Maya Yoshida, Nathaniel Clyne, Sadio Mane, Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pelle.
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That led to a job at Tottenham in 2014 and he landed Kieran Trippier, Toby Alderweireld, Son Heung-Min and of course Alli.
Mitchell resigned in 2016 and went to RB Leipzig in 2018 where he was quickly promoted to Chief Technical Director overseeing all the Red Bull teams.
The Stalybridge native signed Dani Olmo, Christopher Nkunku, Ademola Lookman, Patrik Schick, Dayot Upamecano and Matheus Cunha during his time at Leipzig.
He then moved to Monaco in 2020 but had less success even though he still managed to bring in the likes of Axel Disasi and Breel Embolo.