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  1. 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" Skill that the likes of Muani and Osimhen haven't...

  2. Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025

    Right back at ya champ.

  3. 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 is back on the menu! Truly superb. Adnan the...

  4. 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, Roque Santa Cruz, Robinho/Adebayor for 120m in...

  5. 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 he joined Southampton for £12m, According to...

  6. 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 him" I'd say the head of recruitment data at...

  7. 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. Unreal talent.

  8. 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 continually use data led or data driven without being...

  9. 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 it's widely known that the majority of mistakes...

  10. 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 go along. There's article after article about...

  11. 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.

  12. 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 of people do not. Ratcliffe does not have the...

  13. 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 -Insert player X here" The reason is because most...

  14. 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 scouted is most certainly having a recruitment...

  15. 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 owner Matthew Benham – and explained the...
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