2019-2020 is now OVER!
Let's do this.
Let's do this.
KCup17 said:
It baffles me how Duezy is linked to Barca & PSG. He wouldn't get playing time with either of those teams midfield.
KCup17 said:
It baffles me how Duezy is linked to Barca & PSG. He wouldn't get playing time with either of those teams midfield.
I mean, if they can be effective with a smaller department, that's fine. But if some employees just aren't doing a good job, you'd obviously prefer to replace them, not delete the position. Maybe they'll slowly re-fill positions when finances are better.chjoak said:
Most of the speculation I read on other boards is that we are using COVID as an excuse to clean house of a bunch of scouts that have been around 10+ yrs and many of which haven't done much for us in awhile. The general assumption is that we will rebuild with a smaller dept focusing on analytics.
Yeah I'm seeing that we are close to a 3yr 250k/wk extensionwangus12 said:
Looks like getting Auba to stay is on the cards for a few more years.
That makes sense. Had no clue our scouting network was so large. Shouldn't surprise me considering AW didn't even like to use computers.Quote:
In terms of the house cleaning, the picture I'm getting is that Wenger's network was based on having at least one high level scout in different areas of the world, usually living there and travelling around watching players. And this person was a permanent employee of the club probably on a six figure salary. We are stopping that and will use analytics to narrow down the dataset, and then send people to watch players more closely as needed. Liverpool and City both do this and Edu wants to emulate it here.
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Those familiar with Arsenal's approach, though, believe it is among the most advanced in the field.
In part, that is because the data StatDNA produces is tailored for Arsenal. Many clubs still rely on external companies, such as Opta, to provide the raw figures from which their own teams of analysts work.
Arsenal, by contrast, has developed not just different metrics, but more thorough ones. Where it takes a commercial provider a couple of hours to code a single match, StatDNA requires around 14. The data Arsenal works from, in other words, is far cleaner.
It is also more in depth. StatDNA focuses not only on individual offensive output, but on defensive metrics, too, factors that are difficult to code.
Last I heard Gabriel had already decided that he preferred Arsenal. Part of the reason Napoli was looking at him was as a replacement for Koulibaly but they haven't found a taker for him given their price tag.wangus12 said:
Sounds like we are gonna be in a battle to sign Gabriel with Napoli of course