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Edited February 7, 20251 yr by Scotty

I saw the speculation on X last night. At the moment it just looks like a rumour, but sometimes rumour has some truth to it.

It would be a setback if it were true. But I will trust the owners, who always see ahead & I'm sure they would have a replacement in mind if it was needed.

As you say @Robbie it’s a rumour at present sometimes these things get started by one person then it gets picked up by someone else  and before you know it the rumour appears to be coming from several different sources.

Lets hope there’s no truth in it because he’s doing a great job for us and the brothers certainly won’t want to lose him.

Luke Williams interview here seems to support the rumour, he talks about someone coming to the club as Director of Football.

 

Are Swansea fans just thinking because they got their head coach from us that because they’re now getting a new football director he’s probably coming from Notts as well? No mention of a name in the interview but there’s lots of people it could be and the great news Luke talks about could just simply be that they are now getting a football director, something he thinks Swansea really need.

Richard Montague has only ever had to recruit for us, he’s not had experience signing players to get a team into the Premiership (or other equivalent top division), which is the aim for Swansea. I’m not saying he wouldn’t be capable but I’m just not sure he’d be Swansea’s first choice…

I'm not sure you'd want to join them would you? Appear like a basket case club.

 

Clueless American owner

Incompetent staff

Unpopular outspoken manager who criticises staff

Fan disillusionment and alienation 

Squad flirting with relegation 

 

 

Doesn't scream 'exciting project to get on board with'.

I was thinking a bit more about this yesterday too. Richard Montague has a very senior role at this club, he basically has a say in everything that goes on. He obviously leads our recruitment but being on the board of directors along with the Bros he does a lot more than just that. The relationship he has with the Chris and Alex is clearly very good, he knows the project here how well it's going, it's only going to get better.

He wouldn't get that at Swansea, he'd likely get more money but I'm guessing his roll would purely be in recruitment, coaches and players, but with likely less control as those higher up are likely to want a say too. I don't know what Richard's personal goals are, maybe his dream is to be involved in a Premiership clubs recruitment, so maybe this does potentially get him closer to achieving that...

Swansea needs a massive rebuild though, they might only be step away from the Premier League but in reality the gap is much bigger.

As far as I understand , Richard Montague is a Football Radar employee. Without being certain, his costs are seemingly recharged to #Notts in the financial accounts. The "data" is paramount, which presumably Swansea would not be able to access?

Paul Mace dismissed it tonight on Magpie Circle. Said it was rumours created by 'social media numpties' and had zero credibility.

 

 

19 minutes ago, Super_Danny_Allsopp said:

Paul Mace dismissed it tonight on Magpie Circle. Said it was rumours created by 'social media numpties' and had zero credibility.

 

 

If he’s right that’ll be a big relief.

13 hours ago, Super_Danny_Allsopp said:

Paul Mace dismissed it tonight on Magpie Circle. Said it was rumours created by 'social media numpties' and had zero credibility.

 

 

but he jumped on the rumours of signing macaulay langstaff on loan and that seems to never have been the case.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richard-montague-25931812

richard montaque does come from football radar. why would he jump ship to go work with luke williams, when williams has publicly said that he does not go near the swansea dressing room and has been negative of the squad that he has there. it was not that long again he was linked to west brom, so we need to stay in the real world.

Looks like Richard is leaving for Swansea then.

It's a reliable source.

Richard Montague: Notts County director to join Swansea City

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Swansea City are set to appoint Notts County's Richard Montague as their...

 

Really disappointing😢

The way I see it, Montague has  been successful in recruiting for Notts using Football Radars data.

He can't take it with him.

I presume Football Radar will grant those who pay them to access the data, access.

I hope Football  Radar refuse them access, at any price. 

 

 

20 minutes ago, Piethagoram said:

Really disappointing😢

Ditto.