Bainesy's Left Peg
Player Valuation: £950k
Absolutely buzzing about this. Some perspective, at this point he’s cost less than Leicester paid for Perez from Newcastle....
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Liamliverpool86
Player Valuation: £8m
Absolute peak Everton if the move somehow falls through tomorrow btw
i'd have to go into hiding i've been giving it to them today
' bench warmer apparently '
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
He is but I get what he's saying. Actually it would be good if the Ivorian background meant Kean spoke French as we definitely have people who can speak that around. Italian I'm not so sure about. Although Spanish and Portuguese aren't a million miles away so some communication should be possible without translators. And football is football. Unless it's calcio.
ChesterBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
Hahaha true, forgot Segundo Castillo existed to be fair
magicjuan
Player Valuation: £60m
How very Trumpian.
My point is, and I appear to be struggling to get this across, possibly due to an obvious lack of sixteen digit numbers, pie charts and a great big narky swingometer, that the browsing and examining of these stats has taken precedence over the sporting element to some while it means jack to most.
Its importance is rendered obsolete when the first Ryan Shawcross horizontal tackle comes in and takes said player and all his quarter turns in the opponents final tenth between the 50th and 59th minute into the recycle bin.
Have fun with numbers by all means but don't finish off football for the sake of choking the life out of an abacus...
I get what your saying and im the same, kinda, football isnt played on data, its played on grass, by humans, so whilst all the data in the world will tell you 1 thing, the human element will at some point, quite often in fact, tell you something very different.
So whilst I agree, you cant ignore that a LOT of football clubs seems to be investing vast sums of money on such things. They of course dont compute the human aspect, but they are helpful.
Sports science and data such as this has come so very far and the investment is worthwhile for most clubs, cos if some nerd in an office can improve something by 2%, well you will surely agree, that 2% is worth every penny in the 93rd minute.
I do think theres is a massive switch towards only taking data to judge players tho, as you said earlier, the only thing that matters, REALLY matters is did X player put that ball in the back of the net.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Beautiful text. Just ruddy lovely.
griffla
Player Valuation: £10m
What he says below. Ivorian heritage (his parents are Ivorian). Obviously we wouldn't target Zaha for that reason alone, just would've been a bit of a bonus.
FTY
Player Valuation: £70m
Theme though
Last summer: Gomes, Bernard, Richarlison all speak Portuguese, Digne n Zouma French. This year we’ve been *heavily* linked with 2 Ivory Coast players and someone who’s parents are Ivorian within the space of a week
I know Brands won’t be playing Ultimate Team trying to link players with chemistry but not sure it’s a coincidence either
Verbal Kint
Player Valuation: £35m
Don't think Kean has played a minute of pre season so far judging by Juventus fixtures/Lineups. A cameo appearance against Palace will have to suffice.
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