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Villa have looked dreadful so far. Hopefully Elliot and Sancho don't make them look any better.

And I think that would only include up to 2022 (?) - things at the top have gotten even more advanced since then. Basically the entire reason the RS have had a decade as an elite team again is because they realised before anyone else in the prem...

A lot of the stats that top sides have access to now are far more advanced than that. I read the book by the Liverpool data guy while I was sat round a pool this summer and while it was nauseating in parts (although I particularly liked the bit...

Long story short, nobody knows, but the club definitely think so 🤷‍♂️

Much like VAR, the technology itself isn't the problem but it won't work as it should if you have morons using/interpreting it.

Yeah definitely not a substitute for watching players play! You absolutely need both. And I can't even begin to explain how advanced stats are these days. It's come so, so far from assists, key passes, even xG and xA are about at the bottom of...

That's why good stats can be a lot less misleading 😉 He's not, that sort of thing is accounted for in more in-depth stats. But you're absolutely right - that's exactly why taking a stat like pass completion % without context can be super...

Actually, found it...

Oh yeah absolutely, sorry I thought that was clear from the contents of the post. Like I said though I'm a crap scout in person anyway so I wouldn't listen to what I had to say about watching him play live if I had 😂

That makes sense to me too in terms of his position. I do worry about our defensive solidity with a midfield of garner/KDH/rohl but tbh I should probably fret less about David Moyes of all people being able to set up a defensively solid team.

Saw a tweet yesterday that I can't find now which showed his heat map from last season. Basically even though he was a number 10 for pretty much the entire season, he has a natural bias to the right hand side of the pitch. Given KDH has a...

Hahah my head fell off a bit because he basically hasn't shown consistently that he can do anything useful, and I wanted an upgrade at CM so bad. I did say that if he's good for us, that's a huge win for us because it means our recruitment can...

Hard to evaluate? This time yesterday you had decided he wasnt very good and he played in a position we didnt need.

No, and tbf I'm pretty dreadful at analysing players live. Pretty much all the highlight reel stuff is him carrying the ball up the pitch though so I guess that says something too!

He mentions in his interview his best quality is driving up the pitch with the ball which basically all our new players can do.