By Reading FC

Reading Football Club are pleased to announce the appointment of Jared Dublin as Head of Scouting.

Dublin has already started working alongside Director of Recruitment Brian Carey and Head of Football Operations Mark Bowen at Bearwood Park.

The highly-regarded American arrives from Sheffield United, having spent nearly six years at Bramall Lane in the Blades’ recruitment department.

After early career experience at Google and SoftLayer, an IBM acquisition company, Dublin arrived on the UK shores to study an MBA in Football Industries from the University of Liverpool. Having earned his qualification, the American took his next steps in football joining Sheffield United’s recruitment department in 2017.

Two years after joining Sheffield United, the newly-promoted Blades earned a move up to the Premier League and finished an impressive ninth in their first campaign back in the top tier under Chris Wilder.

Dublin continued to play a key role in recruitment during Paul Heckingbottom’s tenure; following a shrewd transfer window in the summer - which included the arrivals of Bosnian international Anel Ahmedhodžić and England youth internationals James McAtee and Tommy Doyle amongst others, the Blades are mounting another very strong promotion challenge in 2022-23.

Now Dublin has swapped S2 for RG2 and we would like to formally welcome Jared to Reading Football  Club.