Barnet manager Martin Allen has secured promotion back to the Football League on a shoestring budget; his staff consisting of two player-coaches, a physiotherapist, and the richest scout in the world.

Omar Yabroudi, their analyst, is only 25-years-old but has already worked under Edgar Davids and can now add a Conference promotion to his CV after assisting Allen in their transition into League Two.

Yabroudi rejected the opportunity to work for his family’s billion-pound business which has been responsible for constructing some of the most famous buildings on the Dubai landscape.

Omar Yabroudi has helped Barnet manager Martin Allen lead the side back into the Football League

Yabroudi turned down a role in his family's mega-money business to work in football in England

Allen has secured Barnet's promotion back into the Football League on a shoestring budget

That is the reason a Conference scout earning pittance has been residing in the Ennismore Gardens area of west London - where the average house price is £3.3million - and why his manager considers him the richest scout in the world.

'In the Arab culture it's very hard to do what you want to do,' Yabroudi says. 'Every son has to follow in his father's footsteps.'

There were laughs around the dinner table at their plush home in Dubai when Yabroudi, then 15-years-old, told his father, Abdullah, he wanted to become a football manager.

He was supposed to follow his father's path, like his older brothers Hasan and Faisal who, now in their 30s, manage the family's properties in London while Abdullah runs the Dubai Contracting Company back home. Their construction portfolio includes the World Trade Centre Residences, the Rolex Tower and the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.

But Yabroudi wanted to work in football and his first job was as an analyst at Crystal Palace, in the Championship, for academy director Gary Issott.

It was at that time, in 2010, that Davids made the shock move to Palace and took an interest in this enthusiastic youngster with a near-Encyclopaedic knowledge of football.

'We got to know each other and got talking regularly,' Yabroudi explains. 'We got to share philosophies, values and how we believe football should be played and managed.

'After two seasons at Crystal Palace I was due to move to 1860 Munich in Germany. Whilst I was waiting for my work permit to join the club I got a call from Davids. He told me that he had plans to become manager of a club in League Two. Once it was cemented he was coming to Barnet he asked me to join his backroom staff to become head of recruitment.’

Yabroudi crossed paths with Edgar Davids (centre) at Crystal Palace, who then took him to Barnet

Barnet were relegated under Davids but Yabroudi has now experienced promotion with current boss Allen

Allen's budget is so small, Yabroudi also works as a chef, waiter and kit man for the club

Yabroudi worked under Davids for two years, experiencing relegation out of the Football League. When Allen took over last summer, tasked with taking them back up again, he was forced to slash staff budgets. But Yabroudi was desperate to learn from another of the games great characters and convinced Allen to keep him on.

Now not only does he scout opposition sides and players, present to the manager and take short match analysis sessions with the squad, he is chef and waiter on away trips and shares the responsibility of kit man with three others.

They are experiences a man of his background could easily shun, but ones that Yabroudi is relishing and absorbing in pursuit of ambitions that were mocked a decade ago.

'The eye is the most important thing,' he says. 'The observing eye, just like Sir Alex Ferguson said, is the one thing you can take everywhere. You're always going to learn from observing, by taking in, whether it's mental factors, physical factors.

'From the Championship, down to League Two, down to the Conference. It's giving me that all-round experience; of the relegation fight, the promotion battle, working with the youth team to the first team.'

Working under Allen has proved a shrewd move. Allen has secured him time to visit Reading, West Ham and Watford to see how those clubs are run.

Yabroudi adds: 'My dream is to take my country, the United Arab Emirates, to the World Cup. That's why I'm here. My country last made it to the World Cup in 1989, the year I was born. I feel it's meant to be that I take them back there and the best place to learn is in England.'

Yabroudi convinced Allen to keep him at Barent upon his arrival at the club as manager

Yabroudi recommended Omar Abdul Rahman (right) to Palace, who since had at offer from Manchester City

While working for Palace he recommended fellow countryman Omar Abdul-Rahman to Dougie Freedman.

Forward Abdul-Rahman, now 23, stars for Al Ain, the most successful club in the UAE where his performances earned a trial and contract offer from Manchester City in 2012, only for it to fall through due to work permit issues. Arsenal and Barcelona have also monitored the player who remains one of the most sought-after in the Middle East.