Rich

1st Team Scout within the EFL, #SAFC fan. @HWFCOfficial HoR. Founding Director of @ThePlayerMP

[Havant & Waterlooville FC @HWFCOfficial]

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐥 🤝

Havant and Waterlooville Football Club can confirm that, after a period of negotiations, we have been unable to agree terms with Nigel Atangana ahead of the 2026/27 Season.

Nigel returned to the Hawks in Summer 2024 and across his two spells with the club has notched 106 appearances in that time scoring 7 Goals for the club along the way.

With our full support, Nigel will depart the club in search of a new challenge and we wish him the best of luck in his next chapter and thank him for all his efforts in Hawks colours over the years!

#HWFC #COYH

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Another season now officially over.

Thanks @FutbologyApp I’d be lost without you on a Sunday evening when planning out the next weeks games!

[Rich @rjpscouting]

@Jack14thomas Top man Jack. All the best whatever is next for you 🤝⚽️

[Rich @rjpscouting]

@FIFC Great signing. ✍️

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Have no doubt he’ll be a big success here. He is a super talent.

[Forest Green Rovers @FGRFC_Official]

Forest Green Rovers are delighted to announce the signing of Bryan Ifeanyi from Isthmian Premier Division side Carshalton Athletic.

Full story: https://t.co/SEdFBtTXNk

#WeAreFGR💚

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Great signing this, wouldn’t be surprised to see Leo go on again.

[Chelmsford City FC @OfficialClarets]

Leo Sery is a Claret after signing a two-year deal from St Albans ✍️

#ClaretsTogetheLeo Sery is a Claret after signing a two-year deal from St Albans ✍️

#ClaretsTogetheLeo Sery is a Claret after signing a two-year deal from St Albans ✍️

#ClaretsTogetheLeo Sery is a Claret after signing a two-year deal from St Albans ✍️

#ClaretsTogether

[Havant & Waterlooville FC @HWFCOfficial]

𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 ✍️

Havant and Waterlooville Football Club is delighted to announce the return of, Midfielder, Andreas Robinson following his departure from Weymouth

Welcome back Andreas 🤝

🔗: https://t.co/BxatGmrS29

#HWFC #COYH

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Superb 👏

[Havant & Waterlooville FC @HWFCOfficial]

Congratulations to, Hawks Manager, Aaron Martin who earlier this week passed his UEFA A-License! 👏

Aaron has been working towards this during his time with us and it's great to see all of his hard work pay off! 🙌

#HWFC #COYH

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Sunderland’s starting XI in their joyous, season-ending 2-1 victory over listless Chelsea cost the same as £106m Enzo Fernandez. This is no slight on a world champion, an elite attacking midfielder, full of craft and craftiness, if moody at times. This is simply a celebration of Sunderland’s exceptional recruitment, finding gems who can see - and seize - the opportunity at the Stadium of Light.

This is also a celebration of Regis Le Bris’ remarkable team-building, blending and bonding qualities which have guided a side promoted via the play-offs into seventh and Europe. For those of us who thought Sunderland would go straight back down, apologies and enjoy Europe. You deserve it. A well-run football operation deserves it. That backing from stands to boardroom deserves it. Football also deserves it: a reminder that the status quo can be challenged with shrewd planning and investment and hard work.

Of Le Bris’ starting XI against Chelsea, eight joined on the eve of the season and one in the winter window: Roefs a reported £9m from Nijmegen; Mukiele £9.5m from PS-G; Reinaldo free from Atletico Madrid; Geertruida loan from RB Leipzig; Le Fee £19.3m, loan made permanent from Roma; Xhaka £13m from Bayer Leverkusen; Sadiki £15m from Union St-Gilloise; Angulo £17.5m from Anderlecht (in February); and seven-goal Brobbey £21.6m from Ajax. Two 2025 arrivals came off the bench: Diarra £30m from Strasbourg; and Isidor £5m loan made permanent from Zenit St-Petersburg (in February 2025).

Three of the 14 involved were already at the club. The starting pair of: Hume £200,000 from Linfield in 2022; and O’Nien undisclosed but reported as £200,000 to £300,000 from Wycombe Wanderers in 2018. And the sub: Rigg from Sunderland’s academy. (The £105.5m total does not include the undisclosed loan fees).

When Sunderland won 2-1 at the Bridge in October, Le Bris’ starting XI cost only £75m (and also had the important Ballard, £2m from Arsenal in 2022). Chelsea’s starting XI was £433m.

Four miles from the Bridge, on Park Lane this evening, the League Managers Association celebrates its members’ many achievements this season. Le Bris certainly deserves a mention. Mixing old and many new players, and getting new signings to settle quickly, requires real people skills. Le Bris and his staff clearly have them.

It’s also a reflection on Sunderland’s family club reputation that so many newcomers are welcomed and assimilated so quickly. Some will move on, some will be moved on but what a journey this is across England - and soon Europe. #SAFC

[Michael Graham @Capt_Fishpaste]

Granit Xhaka's message to #SAFC fans was absolutely spine-tingling: "I promise you, as captain of this football club, that THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!"

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

EUROPA LEAGUE FOOTBALL IS COMING TO SUNDERLAND!

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻

🥇 Regis Le Bris | Sunderland

“Newly-promoted teams are not supposed to reach the heights that Sunderland have hit this season.

“Le Bris has been the man to make it all possible.” - @PJBuckingham

#PL | #TAFCAwards26

[Rich @rjpscouting]

@1980Buster I mean, he got absolutely destroyed by Brian Brobbey and went off with a punctured lung in our games against them. But he was poor in both games.

But how has he honestly got ahead of Harry Maguire?

I honestly find some of those squad decisions baffling.

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Dan Burn going to a World Cup over Harry Maguire is absolutely wild.

He can’t even get in Newcastle’s team at the moment and his last game in an England shirt more than showed his fragility at international level.

Staggering decision.

[Rich @rjpscouting]

The man is a genius! Never change Marc 🤣

[Havant & Waterlooville FC @HWFCOfficial]

𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 | 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽

Havant and Waterlooville Football Club can confirm that, following several months of constructive discussions and negotiations, the Club has reached an agreement in principle with an international investment group that shares the Club’s long-term vision and ambitions.

Read More on our Website here 👇
🔗: https://t.co/lN6bd9ZnYj

#HWFC #COYH

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Super appointment. Stoke are in good hands

[Stoke City FC @stokecity]

Stoke City have appointed Stuart Harvey as Technical Director.

Harvey, who recently served as Head of Player Recruitment at Sunderland AFC, will report into Sporting Director Jonathan Walters and support the broad spectrum of the Club’s football operations.

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Great appointment!

[Romford FC @RomfordFC]

A first message from our new First Team Manager, @darren_manning.

[Rich @rjpscouting]

Slightly different post to my normal football chat on here, but does anyone within my network have experience of using Slack for work? Looking for some feedback. #slack