They are at the creative heart of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. One commanded a transfer fee of £32 million when he moved to the Premier League and was recently judged the third most valuable player on the planet at €99m. The other cost €12m to extract from the final year of a contract at Ajax Amsterdam and is now valued at three times that sum, according to the same CIES study.
At first glance the signings of Eden Hazard and Christian Eriksen have produced extraordinary value for the two London clubs. Yet both represent missed opportunities on an extraordinary scale. Had Chelsea and Tottenham followed up the earlier advice of their own scouting staff, the pair could have been brought to England for fees of less than £100,000 apiece.In 2012, Senior resigned his role as the academy scouting coordinator to take up a position at Charlton Athletic. By then Levy's right-hand man on recruitment matters was Tim Sherwood, whose self-assurance repeatedly outstrips his achievements.
As director of football at Leeds United, Williams made the club seven-figure sums on signings such as Robert Snodgrass, Luciano Becchio and Max Gradel, while developing Fabian Delph and Danny Rose as first-team players. He is currently suing Leeds for unfair dismissal during the disastrous tenure of Bahrain bank Gulf Finance House as the Championship club's owners.
It is not just future virtuosos like Hazard and Eriksen who go undervalued by English clubs. They also misjudge the men with an eye for such talent.
Source http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2320907-inside-line-eden-hazard-and-christian-eriksen-tip-iceberg-of-expensive-mistakes
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