Sporting director
Alvaro Valdes
Age 41 · Nationality: 
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Recruitment profile
Five independent traits, generated once and never re-derived from results. Youth preference, recruitment aggressiveness, continuity preference and value discipline shape the club's off-season squad decisions in seasons it is run autonomously — always inside the league's fixed squad rules, and never over a human Manager. Youth preference also guides which Head Coach the club hires. Upside vs. certainty is a recorded profile fact only; no trait decides whether a coach is dismissed. There is no overall rating.
- Youth preference
- 66
- Recruitment aggressiveness
- 51
- Continuity preference
- 86
- Upside vs. certainty
- 70
- Value discipline
- 88
- Youth preference — When the club signs a free agent, how strongly it favours younger players over established ones. Filling an empty position and the club's own academy graduate always come first. When the club hires a Head Coach, the director favours the candidate whose youth trust is closest to this preference.
- Recruitment aggressiveness — How early the club moves for free agents each off-season: a more aggressive director gets an earlier pick among players other clubs also want. It never forces a signing the squad does not need.
- Continuity preference — Reluctance to let existing squad members go: a high value releases veterans later and gives up a player only from deeper cover; a low value is the first to supply a club missing a position.
- Upside vs. certainty — Preference for high-ceiling, less-proven signings over reliable, established performers. Recorded as a profile fact only; no current signing model can evaluate it.
- Value discipline — When the club signs a free agent, how much weight it gives to the player's valuation on the league's contract scale — the salary any contract for him would carry today. Above the midpoint, the director will take a slightly weaker player the scale values clearly lower; at or below it, valuation plays no part. Filling an empty position and the club's own academy graduate always come first, and it never stops a signing the squad needs. It creates no budget, fee or contract.
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Tenure history
Every recorded Sporting Director tenure. A tenure beginning at world bootstrap makes no claim about club recruitment before that point.
| Club | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Northgate United | 2026 | Present |