Director of football suggestion

An interesting thread on twitter about Luis Campos who served at Monaco as director of football between 2013 and 2016, eight of the players he signed ended up in the Championship winning team of 2017. He is now at Lille who sit 2nd in Ligue 1.

https://twitter.com/RashfordiisRed/status/1093618493784764416

The gist...

"Firstly I'll go through Campos' individual summers and i will only mention the notable ins and outs, so not all of the loans and frees etc

2014 Summer

In:
B.Silva - 15m
Abdennour - 13m
Bakayoko - 8m
Paul Nardi - 3m
Seydou Sy - Free

Out:
James Rodriguez - 75m
Falcao - Loan (with a 7.5m fee)
Riviere - 6m
Abidal - Free

Spent - 39m
Income - 88.5m
Net - 49.5m


2015 Summer

In:
Cavaleiro - 15m
Adama Traore (CM) - 14m
Rony Lopes - 12m
Jemerson - 11m
Boschilla - 9m
Carrillo - 9m
Fabinho - 6m
Dias - 5m
Saint Maximin - 5m
Lemar - 4m
Jean - 4m
Bahouli - 3.5m
El Shaarawy - Loan
Vagner Love - 1.5m

Out:
Anthony Martial - 60m
Geoffrey Kondogbia - 36m
Layvin Kurzawa - 25m
Yannick Ferreira Carrasco - 25m
Aymen Abdennour - 22m
Lucas Ocampos - 7.5m
Ismat Mirin - 2.4m
Dimitar Berbatov - Free

Total Spent - 89m
Total Income - 177.9m
Net Spend - + 88.9m

2016 Summer

In:
Djibril Sidibe - 15m
Benjamin Mendy - 13m
Glik - 11m
Jorge - 8.5m
Ait Bennasser - 3m
De Sanctis - Free

Out:
Cavaleiro - 8m
Tisserand - 3.5m
Bauhouli - 3.5m
N'Dinga - 2.5m
Vagner Love - Free
Toulalan - Free

Total Spent - 40.5m
Total Income - 17.5m
Net Spend -23m

His Overall Spend was 190.5m
His Overall Income was 264.9m
His Net Spend was + 74.4m

Considering how successful Monaco were, this is pretty impressive

Now taking a look at the title winning Monaco team.

8 of the usual starting lineup from that season were signed by Campos (Silva, Lemar, Sidibe, Mendy, Glik, Jemerson, Fabinho, Bakayoko) and Carrillo and Jorge who were squad players in that season were also signed by him.

Also to note, the players who were important within the squad that he didn't sign were quite old with the exception of Mbappe and Toure who came through the academy

Falcao - 30
Subasic - 31
Moutinho - 29
Dirar - 30
Germain - 26

The Average Age of the permanent signings he made was 21.8

The Average Age of permanent players sold was 25.2

Campos likes to invest in young talent and it's evident with this stat

Now we will look at the profit Monaco made off of Campos' signings

B.Silva - 45m
Abdennour - 22m
Bakayoko - 40m
Cavaleiro - 8m
Carrillo - 18m
Fabinho - 45m
Saint Maximin - 10m
Lemar - 60m
Jean - 3.5m
Mendy - 50m

Total Income 301.5m
These players were bought for 92m
Profit 209.5m"


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His track record seems to show that he signs highly talented young players for very little with a large sell on value. This is helpful if any of our future players have a "dream" of playing for Real or Barca. We can move away from Ed's Galactico model and invest in training players with the talent and drive to be great. If we need a big signing... well even Ed can do that job.

Not a bad option...

Negatives: Thinking Bakayoko was a good player.

The press have also linked us with him...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-luis-campos-transfer-15044181

Seems a more exciting and proven DOF than the guy who was at Southampton imo, thoughts?