ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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bluemangroup said:
If he got his head on there is a good player in there, I'm convinced of it. Not an exceptional one, but certainly a good league player. 6m may be a bit much, but he is worth half that I'd say.
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Honestly think he's lower end Championship/League One standard.

Only thing he's good for is album covers for Queen.

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tsubaki said:
So is Moneyball dead and buried, then?
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Their Moneyball was the best thing I've encountered in ages.

The principle, as I understand it, is that scouts looking at players can be misled by things that aren't actually important. Players who 'look the part' but don't actually have what it takes.

So if you want to get a bargain it can be useful to check out players stats and see if you can't pick up a player who nobody else wants cos he's from azerbaijan or has a drinking problem or for whatever reason puts off the scouts but does it on the pitch.

Which is a sound strategy. The players you're looking for might not be better than the ones all the scouts want but if there's no competition they will at least be cheaper.

Liverpool, being the geniuses they are, looked into the stats and picked out four or five players who nobody else fancied but the stats made look good. And then told their guys to go get them.

Except people saw them coming and just raised their prices and because liverpool wanted all of their list they ended up paying stupid prices for not very good players. Which completely missed the whole point of trying to buy players noone else wanted in the first place.

Great stuff, really.
 
Tubey said:
Swansea have literally paid ten times too much for Shelvey. He's gash, badly badly gash.

Not quite Henderson gash but close.
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He's a textbook example of how Liverpool big up their players so much, that they and a large percentage of football fans actually believe they're good. Every RS fan I know said that Shelvey would be the next Gerrard. Utter delusion
 
Proper lol at that kit. It looks like what used to end up on the paper in nursery when I was trying to draw a house. Ok, it still looks like that now when I'm drawing.:lol:
 
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