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Libero 024: Data Is A Condiment

Libero

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Horncastle and Rory Smith discuss the most wonderful time of the year: the transfer market between football executives. They ask why we have become so fascinated by sporting directors, and why some of them have become almost as famous as the players themselves. James explains the history of the role in Italy, and Rory and Jack try to work out when and why it finally became a big part of the Premier League landscape. (39:46) They try to pick apart what the role actually does, whether you want a Monchi, a Fabio Paratici or a Michael Edwards, and what best practice recruitment actually looks like in 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Erigo Saki once said.

0:06.3

Now, we're going to start with our normal request. We really enjoy doing this podcast, and we hope that you all like listening to it as well. But if you really want to help us, please give us a hand. You can follow us or you can subscribe to us. You could leave a review on Spotify or on Apple.

0:20.3

You can get involved on social media.

0:22.1

We are now on X, on Blue. You can get involved on social media. We are now on

0:22.5

X, on Blue Sky. On Instagram now at Libero Pod. Please find our content, share it, comment on it and so on.

0:29.1

Also, don't be afraid to tell your friends about the Libero podcast. It might be whether you are

0:33.6

picking your children from nursery on Friday, going to the farmer's market on Saturday

0:38.2

morning, going to the craft beer tap room on Saturday afternoon, or whatever you do with your

0:42.6

weekends, we need your help getting the word out there.

0:50.9

Now, my name's Jack Pitbrook.

0:52.7

I'm from The Athletic, and I'm joined on today's show by my athletic colleague James Horncastle all the way from Rippen. And the Observer's Rory Smith from Boston Spa. Have I got that one right? Not posh enough to live in Boston Spa. No, sorry, I've just double-checked my research. Rory's from Burley and Warfdale and James

1:10.8

has come all the way from Weatherby.

1:12.5

Do you know who is from Burlington, Jack?

1:14.1

Harry Brooke.

1:14.8

Wow. England captain.

1:16.7

Play cricket at our cricket club.

1:18.9

We're bid on Harry Brook.

1:20.8

We've invested heavily in Harry Brook.

1:22.8

When Rory says our cricket club, he means

1:24.8

the cricket club his family has owned

1:26.9

for generation.

1:29.1

We are dealing with true Yorkshire royalty on this show. But I want to get something really

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