Brentford's data-driven "Moneyball" success

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Small pubs tend to be more profitable than large bars/clubs because of the size of the overheads. I'm not shocked a smaller, well run club like brentford is more profitable than a beast like united. United is still worth far more.

Still, Brentford have done everything right and should be the blueprint in how to grow a club.
 
Helps not having an academy. Not sure that’s a blueprint for all clubs to follow.
 
SalfordRed18 said:
Small pubs tend to be more profitable than large bars/clubs because of the size of the overheads. I'm not shocked a smaller, well run club like brentford is more profitable than a beast like united. United is still worth far more.

Still, Brentford have done everything right and should be the blueprint in how to grow a club.
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Does that include shutting down your youth academy for 8 years and keeping the womenfolk down in the regional leagues?
 
How many academies actually generate profits other than a few at the top? Genuine question, as I don't know. But I would think think it was a good decision if you're spending a lot of money just to produce not much in the way of first team talent. Particularly if you're in the lower leagues. Presumably they figured out it wasn't worth it.

But yeah it's not a model to follow as such.

Also I remember when they closed it down someone at Brentford mentioned that they were also happy to be relieved of the moral failure involved in keeping a whole academy squad who you know won't make it, and whose education you massively disrupt, just so the 2-3 kids who might have a career have people to play with. It's an interesting perspective.
 
Scoring for fun against everyone else except us and only managed to get a goal when we were down to 10 men.

Game lowering cnuts?
 
They have been here for a while now and most casual fans would struggle to name their eleven. A lot of other teams would have had a bad season and gone down, but they have proven their model works.

Maximizing what they can on the pitch and using data to get the players that do the jobs their team requires.

It seems so simple, yet a number of massive clubs spend so much more and get it so badly wrong.

They deserve a lot of credit.
 
More important they kept Mbuemo than Toney and results bearing that out so far.
 
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