I think a lot of that is down to these owners, Sport Republic. They seem like they are undoing all the stuff that Leibherr did to get Southampton back into the EPL. I'm not against using data in football, but it has to be used in context. These seem like it's data/AI driven decisions, but using the wrong data/AI
I’m sure RLB uses data/AI/etc but, as he showed in the playoffs, he’ll throw a swerve ball into a game which seems to contradict that. I doubt many people were screaming for Watson, Ballard and Roberts, in the playoff games, but all three played major parts … … even Hjelde in the final and most people wouldn’t have had him in the squad.
