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I haven’t seen any reference to this. It seems to me the teams who dominate simply have the money to splurge on players (transfer fees and wages) facilities and
by smcl 7y ago
I haven’t seen any reference to this. It seems to me the teams who dominate simply have the money to splurge on players (transfer fees and wages) facilities and managers. That’s it. Sometimes there’s an anomalous team who succeed without vast wealth (Leicester) or fail despite it (Tottenham) ... but a look at the teams taking part in the latter stages of the Champions League in the last decade doesn’t suggest a group of teams shrewdly applying their analytics teams ... but just those fat with cash who can pay their way to success.
- NTDF9 7y agoBut that's exactly my point. Teams with money buy the best players and managers. But what is the definition of best? It used to be scouting and feelings. Today, it's almost down to great data science. That's the reason why Jurgen Klopp gets $75M to buy Virgil Van Dijk and $60M for Allison. The data homework was done and they are almost guaranteed to succeed in Klopps setup. Pogba probably doesn't fit in Mourinho style teams and that's bad data science setting a team back for a few seasons
- actuator 7y agoI don't think Pogba's problem is style. During and even after Mourinho's reign most of the time Pogba looks like someone who couldn't be arsed to play for MUFC. He has been extremely lazy in tracking back, goes missing in games.