January Transfer Rumours Thread

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The main reason I don't like the stats you provided is because the depend on the quality of team they are playing in. A DM is going to have lower stats playing for a Barcalona than he is playing for someone like Place or Sunderland.

He was playing for Rennes in France who finished between 9th and 6th for those seasons mentioned. So not too dissimilar to Liverpool in that time frame. Certainly not a possession advantage. If anything it would be the opposite.
 
Is anyone actually against the signing of M'vila or are we all pretty much in favour of it?

I'm the only one against I think. And I'd rather we brought him in than nobody at DM. I just think we could buy someone better for similar money and with less baggage.
 
I assumed he was joking...

One of my pet hates is the growing use of stats in football as a prime driver for decision making and performance analysis. Numbers are just so limited. For goodness sake why can't people use their eyes. Football is a game in real time with a myriad of variables. It is NOT a computer game wherein all of the variables are reduced to a series of numbers. End of rant.
 
One of my pet hates is the growing use of stats in football as a prime driver for decision making and performance analysis. Numbers are just so limited. For goodness sake why can't people use their eyes. Football is a game in real time with a myriad of variables. It is NOT a computer game wherein all of the variables are reduced to a series of numbers. End of rant.

I agree with you to some extent. I don't love the increase in stats being used to definitively say who is better and I'd be alarmed if we based signings on stats alone (Damien Comolli?). But I think they definitely aid in assessing a player's qualities. More often than not when you come away from a match thinking a certain player had a good game his stats reflect that. As I mentioned in a previous post, the stats I listed for both Lucas and M'Vila are quite a fair reflection on them as players and their performances for that season.
 
I agree with you to some extent. I don't love the increase in stats being used to definitively say who is better and I'd be alarmed if we based signings on stats alone (Damien Comolli?). But I think they definitely aid in assessing a player's qualities. More often than not when you come away from a match thinking a certain player had a good game his stats reflect that. As I mentioned in a previous post, the stats I listed for both Lucas and M'Vila are quite a fair reflection on them as players and their performances for that season.

I agree that stats will HELP to support your analysis of how a player has performed. However, it gives no indication of a players psychology. It gives no indication that a star player might just be that because the team itself has been built around his particular skills
 
I agree that stats will HELP to support your analysis of how a player has performed. However, it gives no indication of a players psychology. It gives no indication that a star player might just be that because the team itself has been built around his particular skills

Yep. Can't argue with that.
 
Liverpool could turn to Spartak Moscow's Brazilian midfielder Romulo, 23, who has also been scouted by Arsenal and Chelsea, after learning that Lucas Leiva could miss up to two months with a knee injury.
 
Liverpool could turn to Spartak Moscow's Brazilian midfielder Romulo, 23, who has also been scouted by Arsenal and Chelsea, after learning that Lucas Leiva could miss up to two months with a knee injury.

Someone posted this yesterday and I think a few objected because of only playing seven games in two years :huh:

Good name though <ok>
 
I heard on the back end of a news report on talkshite that BR was on there and "hadn't given up hope on signing Salah"

Anyone hear the actual interview?