TOTTENHAM'S team got older under Jose Mourinho and youngsters had fewer opportunities, but was it all his fault?

RIGHT TO DREAM founder Tom Vernon makes three recommendations for dealing with the owners of want-away clubs, including making a commitment to the English football pyramid a key part of the fit and proper person test.

WALSALL have appointed Crystal Palace Head of Emerging Talent Jamie Fullarton as their new Technical Director.

WEST HAM manager David Moyes says his side’s renaissance has been built on becoming more “robust and energetic” - and that the next stage of their development will be to follow a “Red Bull model” of recruitment.

MANCHESTER UNITED have promoted John Murtough from Head of Football Development to Football Director, and Darren Fletcher from first-team coach to Technical Director.

CRAIG KLINE, Fulham’s former Assistant Director of Football Operations, has been ordered to pay ex-Football Association Chief Executive Martin Glenn £100,000 in damages, plus costs, for “libel and harassment”.

DURING seven years at the Premier League, Simone Lewis transformed the way that coaches and coach educators were developed. She tells TGG about the initiatives that were introduced and how they brought about a culture change at Academies.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber explains why the club are playing an 'infinite game', rather than a finite one.

ASTON VILLA manager Dean Smith says the club believe in two-way learning, where the coaches gain knowledge from the players as well as vice versa.

KATE BAKER, the Head of Performance Insight at the Football Association, has left the organisation after three years to become Director of Performance at UK Sport.

FILIPPO GIRALDI has admitted that Watford “are not a club that leaves the coach alone and lets him get on with the job” in his first interview since leaving his job as Technical Director at Vicarage Road.

AZ ALKMAAR Sport Development Director Marijn Beuker outlines how the club outperform their budget by thinking differently.