Perhaps this is the advantage of being what Bowkett called a 'mutual club' today at the press conference on City's financial accounts. I'd rather it is our club rather than some foreign billionaire's plaything.
Just seen this article/video, about a new type of analysis. Two things struck me: 1) How hasn't this tech been developed sooner? 2) Do we have it yet?
i didn't mean it quite as bluntly as you've interpreted it! i meant put it to the manager and see if he agrees a shake up might help. it could mean add a new coach rather than remove someone. decisions like that should always be down to the manager but that doesn't mean the board can't propose the idea of new staff
Re. your first question, these developments are not primarily being driven by football itself. Data collection, technological innovation, software development and even to an extent analysis itself, is reliant on the entrepreneurship of external interests such as the betting companies or people who understand the power of "big data" and recognise the revolutionary impact it can have if used in sport (as it has had in many other fields). Football in particular has been very backward in recognising the potential here. With the exception of one or two enlightened clubs and coaches (Martinez for one), rather typically for this country, there is a lot of pretending to espouse developments while not really having a clue about what they mean or how to use them! On top of which there is a lot of Luddite-like suspicion and outright hostility -- summed up in the single comment to that article: "No thank you let the managers do what they get paid for insted of just looking on a screen to tell them facts" and Lawro's famous comment when asked about what he thought of all this analytics stuff: "We had it all at Liverpool in my day ..... It was called the manager".
