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Raul Sanllehi has left Arsenal
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These clowns
scytheavatar
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Very good news...... Ornstein seem to have implied that this guy is the idiot who thinks Xhaka is the best midfielder ever. Perhaps we can start signing more good players without him.
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I favour a stat based approach over a contact based approach. If we can only sign players who’s agents are in Raul’s networks, we’ll be missing out on talented players.
scytheavatar
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What "talented players" did we sign with our "stat based approach"? Fact is, statDNA is malware and the main reason for our decline.
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Pretty sure statDNA convinced Wenger not to sign Griezmann.
Xhaka, Mustafi, Lucas... I’m sure we’ll cope without it.
Xhaka, Mustafi, Lucas... I’m sure we’ll cope without it.
L3T5 PL4Y
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Stats are bullshit, mothafuckas. If you're a scout and can't tell a good player from a bad one and need numbers, you should be out of a job.
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This sounds like a step in the wrong direction, although it’s hard to know how good he was at his job.
Analytics are where all the smart money is at. And we need to be smart if we want to compete.
Apparently this guy played a huge role in preventing us from extending Emery’s contract over summer. Ominous loss.
Analytics are where all the smart money is at. And we need to be smart if we want to compete.
Apparently this guy played a huge role in preventing us from extending Emery’s contract over summer. Ominous loss.
L3T5 PL4Y
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Great decision imo. Time to bring in the Lille dude Luis Campos.
<<reed>>
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scytheavatar
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Our transfers over the past 4 seasons have been shambolic...... extremely hard to make a case that this guy shouldn't be blamed for it. If analytics are where all the smart money is at then we need someone more competent in his job if we want to be competitive to clubs like Liverpool.
Surprised people think this is a step on the right direction, given how Kia is running the club now.
The fact that he was against extending Emery paints in a much better light.
I think that, had Sven been given the Technical Director role and Raul didn't push him out, we might've been seeing some exciting things happening down the line.
Good analytics, a great scout who's good at spotting and getting young-ish talents in and someone who can pull in a favor or two with agents.
Being stuck with the latter option alone is really not that good, as we've seen thus far.
The fact that he was against extending Emery paints in a much better light.
I think that, had Sven been given the Technical Director role and Raul didn't push him out, we might've been seeing some exciting things happening down the line.
Good analytics, a great scout who's good at spotting and getting young-ish talents in and someone who can pull in a favor or two with agents.
Being stuck with the latter option alone is really not that good, as we've seen thus far.
Statdna give us alot of bad signings and cost us too much money our last summer signings were miles better and more smart than before.
But this all depends i hope we not keep depending on agents i know they hold the best talents in football but they could force to sign thier bad players too.
But this all depends i hope we not keep depending on agents i know they hold the best talents in football but they could force to sign thier bad players too.
The responsibility still lies with the decision makers, i.e., Ivan, Wenger, Sven, Emery and Raul.
He can deliver the stats, make recommendations, but those in charge are still the ones who look at it and interpret it.
Think the statDNA stick has been used to beat people at the club too much. We know very little of what it does and most of it is unconfirmed stuff.
What if statDNA told us Auba was great? Or that Saka should be trusted? I like to joke about Kia's and Raul's pals, but I'll be the first to say that Auba was an amazing coup and I'm hoping Pepe will be one as well.
But that's my point above, we only hear about it when it's related to Xhaka and Mustafi. What if statDNA was the deciding factor of signing a fan favorite in Tierney?
Mind you, not that I'm advocating him in particular to be a huge loss, it's more that we need good data-driven people at the club for us not be at mercy of Kia's clientelle.
Maybe we'll trying to get much better than statdna because since they came all signings were not good enough and cost us money apart from maybe auba and laca and that could be down to Wenger influence. Last summer we made interesting signing even Mari signing could end up being good one. Still like you said being dependable on agents won't end up well because we not real madrid or barca
<<reed>>
Lidl Tir Na Nog
We are basically going from signing rubbish players with good stats to rubbish players with rubbish stats.
Lovely stuff.
Lovely stuff.
L3T5 PL4Y
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More than past 4 seasons bro.
People acting like this is some kind of great loss are ****s.
Last summer's recruitment was mostly positive though.
scytheavatar
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Either statDNA has been giving us good recommendations that we are ignoring, or it has been giving us bad recommendations. Either way ever since we brought statDNA our transfers have gone from bad to worse, so something has to change in the way we are recruiting players.
And signings like Auba and Mkhi makes attacking us for signing Raul's pals pure hypocrisy, when we were clearly signing Sven's ex-Dortmund pals under him. In fact we are signing better players without Sven than we were with him.
