Pleat: Tottenham have cut ALL scouts

Pleat has revealed Tottenham have dropped all human scouting to turn to data analytics.

 Pleat, 79, told Four Four Two: “I finished at Tottenham recently.

“I was the last scout standing – they’ve gone for data completely now.

“Good luck to them, but there’s a place for scouts.

“A scout can tell you things data can’t: if the boy is popular with his team-mates, how he reacts when he hasn’t got the ball, what he’s like off the field...”