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With fofana the issue is the player, not the fee.

Son leaving Spurs has led to this great old piece of transfer news surfacing: Something something prem proven tho.

Yeah stats for defenders is much much harder. The more advanced metrics (like possession-adjusted tackles/interceptions, dribbled-past % etc) offer some useful stuff but almost none of it is available to the public. Aerial win % (not total aerial...

I am the biggest stats nerd going but we're entering the dangerous era where lots of stats are available but people aren't always understanding of how to use them. All these stats here tell you is that they were on a crap team who spent a lot of...

Yeah good shout about the afcon. Today's Joyce article does specifically say we want both a 6 and an 8, so hopefully we aren't as light there when Gana isn't available

On loan would understand just feel be alot of clubs and similat to the luiz deal they would prefer a sale at a big price 30 mill +. I am not fully sold on hackney yes if it was part of two coming in. Problem is gana will be going the acon and...

If Forest want to pay 40m for him then they're welcome to it

Very good but not great player. Fine if the fee is right. Do think it's odd to want him over Hackney personally.

Same with McAtee et al imo. City saying they want 40m, he'd be 15m if he was owned by Sheffield rather than just on loan at them

is makinga any good?

It's also really really bad use of stats. Comparing pure dribble success rate tells you almost nothing. How many are they attempting? In what areas? Where do they start and end up?

More stats stuff for nerds like me who are interested: For reference, OBV stands for on-ball value and is basically a weighted metric for how much a player moves the needle towards their team scoring and away from conceding. Basically, how...

Honestly if I was recruiting keepers for an academy I'd try and get my hands on a local clinic's 'recently diagnosed' list. Got to be one of the best possible attributes there

Pulling this out my arse a little but feels like Juventus want to wait and see if anyone blinks and offers an obligation to buy, while all three prem teams are sticking to their guns on only an option. Could go right down to it potentially

Insane dribbler, very little end product. The latter pretty much to be expected at age 19 and on by far the worst team in the league. The gamble is if you can teach him to do the useful things at the end of the dribble - if you can, world-beater...