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  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Graham has publicly stated that Salah was the most boring signing during his decade at Liverpool because he was the only signing everyone in the recruitment team agreed on. "The data team loved him, the scouts loved him and Edwards loved him"...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Right back at ya champ.
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Premier league defenders will long remember how much long term menacing Antony was responsible for. The only interesting thing about this thread is the poster who made it hasn't tried to delete it from the internet. Looks like eye test Adnan...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Tier Ian Graham verbatim saying he and the data team wanted Mane but Rodgers said no, Rodgers has never refuted this. Why do you keep citing Barry hunter and Fallows as being some genius scouts for work at City? What the city team who signed Jo...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    I'm sure Honigsteins has more information about the decision making at Liverpool than the leading data expert who worked at the club. /s "Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers turned down the opportunity to sign Sadio Mane two years ago when...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Par for the course that your sources are two tabloid journos who make it to what Tier 3 for most clubs? How about Ian Graham himself "we wanted Mane at Salzburg but Rodgers said no, he would have cost a fraction of what we ended up paying for...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Desire Doue | Joined PSG.
    I always remember Sir Alex quote "what all great players have in common is they look like they have time on the ball" and for me Doue just has this in spades. Plays 1 and 2 touch football at speed, goes past players like they weren't there...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    There's literally interviews with Ian Graham were he talks about this subject and it was he and the data team that wanted Mane but Rodgers said no. Please show me the reports where it was the data team who deemed him not good enough? You...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Ehhhhhhhh the book was written by Ian Graham, who led the data analytics team at Liverpool. It's literally called "how to win the premier league". The irony of citing the transfer committee and the mistakes they made in the first few years when...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    How do you know where the biggest gains are? And how is it even possible to make these gains without first using extensive data resources? Do you work in this field because I do. Everything you say sounds like a total punter making it up as you...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    The reason you can't define a recruitment system that's data led is because you'd either end up describing what happens at clubs like Liverpool/Bournemouth or none at all.
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.
    Because it's not possible to sign premier league footballers or managers on a contract that says we can terminate this contract at any time without much warning. Premier league players have fixed contracts and guaranteed money, the vast majority...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Club ownership | Senior management team talk.
    Some of the narratives around Ratcliffe are a little bit tiring and it feels like we're going in circles. There's areas I think he's genuinely made mistakes and others not so much. Over and over again we hear "why are staff being cut and not...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Just because the decision isn't being made 100% based off data does not mean that the recruitment isn't data led. Using proprietary data in order to do additional analysis on 85k players in order to identify 15 or so players who would then be...
  • FlawlessVictory88 replied to the thread Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025.
    Yeah this is just refuting your argument. If you use data to analyse 85k players and wittle it down to 15 then by definition you're data driven. Dykes has also previously spoken about the fact that Brentford have their own proprietary data from...
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