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.
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Incidentally, a question I would like to put to McNally sometime is how strong is our analytic team now. Do we employ specialist analysts, how many, what resources are they provided with etc. etc. Chris Hughton is a very thorough guy so I would think he has built this side of things up along with everything else.
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?
That assumes that the manager is comfortable with the club enforcing such a change on him. Could you imagine, say, Paul Lambert continuing at Villa if Culverhouse and Karsa were dispensed with? (I've seen some suggestions that the replacement of Moody as head of recruitment at Cardiff is an indirect attempt to get rid of Malky. Has a certain plausibility to me (the ploy I mean, not the objective).
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".