Wolves appoint new head of recruitment

The former Liverpool director of academy recruitment is expected to be announced as the club's new main talent spotter after leaving Queen's Park Rangers.

Webber, who was at Compton yesterday, was one of three chief scouts appointed by the Loftus Road club as recently as August.

But he is believed to have been replaced in the shake-up following Harry Redknapp's appointment as manager.

Now he has taken up a role heading up Wolves' scouting – effectively head of football recruitment Kevin Thelwell's right hand man – with responsibility of identifying and recommending players to the manager.

Ironically, Webber was drawn to Wolves after being interviewed for the newly-created role that Thelwell was appointed to last month.

But, while Thelwell accepted the main job, Wolves were impressed by Webber and have decided to offer him the head of recruitment role.

Thelwell and Webber got to know each other in their respective academy roles at Wolves and Liverpool.

Having previously worked with Wrexham, Webber joined Liverpool's academy in 2009 as a senior national scout before progressing to become their director of recruitment in 2011, where he remained until taking up his post with QPR.

Webber was recruited by QPR technical director Mike Rigg, who is well known to Thelwell. He was joined at QPR by his former Liverpool colleague Steve Hitchens, who was chief scout at Anfield, and Hans Gillhaus.

Both were replaced at Anfield when Liverpool's American owners removed Damien Comolli.

Webber's arrival and Thelwell's promotion help fill the gap left by chief scout Dave Bowman and European scout Ian 'Taff' Evans.