Football veteran David Pleat has been given the red card as a scout at Spurs and been replaced by robots.
The former club manager had been involved with the Premier League side for decades before being sent for an early bath.
And he moaned that the modern trend to use computer stats is no substitute for watching players in real life.
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Pleat, 79, said: “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...”
Pleat told FourFourTwo that he recommended a string of stars to Spurs, including former England ace Dele Alli.
He added: “At one stage they could have sold him for over £80m, then things happened.
“I’m sad because I saw him at 16 and he already had that stature about him, and he could play, too.”
In his new book Just One More Goal, Pleat lifted the lid on the change at Tottenham when it came to hunting talent when Antonio Conte was boss.
He said: “Every time I went to the training ground there seemed to be more suits, worn by more people with more titles.
“I suggested that everyone wore lanyards with name tags because you were not always sure who you were shaking hands with.
“There were so many scouts, most of them data scouts who never left the office, that if you wanted to bring a boy in for a trial, you had to go through three different people.
“By March 2024, five senior scouts had been released, the most senior of whom was Ian Broomfield, who had been chief scout under Harry Redknapp.
“My feeling has always been that there is no need to fix something that wasn’t broken. It seemed a revolution for revolution’s sake.”
Tottenham Hotspur were approached for comment.