Tom Green, a senior performance analyst at Manchester United, is set to leave the club to take up a similar but more senior role at Besiktas under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The 33-year-old joined the club from Derby County in 2017 to join up with Jose Mourinho’s team. He impressed, as he did under subsequent managers Ralf Rangnick, Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim.
During Covid, Green was one of the analysts who sat on the United bench alongside the senior coaches. He’s well respected at Old Trafford, popular and is considered to have done a good job. He’ll be a loss to Amorim’s set up, though the other analysts remain. It’s not yet known if Green will be replaced.
United wish Green well with this new opportunity, where sources with knowledge of the appointment speaking on condition of anonymity to protect relationships, indicate that he’ll be made lead analyst.
Before Derby, Green had previously held various analytical roles at Burton Albion, enhancing team performance through detailed match analysis and coding. He holds a Master of Research in Sport Science (Performance Analysis) from Nottingham Trent University and a Bachelor of Science in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Essex.
“He’s considered a really good football analyst and Ole needs that at Besiktas, someone who can produce and do the dirty work, create the pre-match analysis, lead the manager into a match and make sure Ole has all the data on his iPad,” one source, who is familiar with Green’s reputation, not authorised to speak publicly told The Athletic.
“He’ll have to make sure that the coach has the game on his computer after the match, that all coaches have analysis clips pre, live and post-match. In his role, he’d send individual clips to players before and after the games showing their actions.
“He’ll be important for Ole and his staff – it’s a brave, bold move and he has to be admired for doing that after seven or eight years over at Man United.”
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