Lee Johnson has created his own football app that he uses to help with player recruitment, philosophies of managers and everything else Hibs related.
His creation has the works of Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Brendan Rodgers stored within his evolving document that he can control who gains access and what is displayed and can be deleted. The new Easter Road gaffer has described it as his 'playing philosophy' and now that he is at a club everything based around him is removed - but when looking for a job it works as a CV.
The tool is also used when signing up players with the 41-year-old using summer signing Jair Tavares from Benfica as an example of making his app work. Hibs boss Johnson said: "There's a bit of an underground black market in footballing documents. It's quite interesting because I actually built an app. It's an evolving document. I can control who sees it and I can delete things, whereas a PowerPoint gets shared everywhere.
"So I've got Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers, all their philosophies, their training videos, they're all there.
"It’s effectively my playing philosophy. While I’m not at a club I’ll use it as my CV. What happens now I’m in a role is that everything Lee Johnson comes out of it – it’s a bit David Brent with pictures all over it – and everything Hibs goes in."
He added: "It works well when you bring in players. For example, Jair Tavares never had a manager at Benfica, only sporting directors, so I sent him the app and showed him exactly how I wanted him to play and how he fits in, and the metrics we looked at to add him to our list.
“Where we see his development, that becomes important especially when players have six or seven options. It becomes a bit of a string to the bow.
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“It was easy with Jair, because he knew about me trying to sign him for Bristol City a few years ago. Players want to feel like they belong.
“Players sign for the club but they also sign for the manager. It’s about trust. Does he know me and what I can and can’t do? How can we add value to the player?
“Take Nohan Kenneh – can we brand him as a top number six? We’re adding value on the pitch, because he is a better player, and off the pitch because we now have a brand of being the best number six in the division.”
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