| Edwards just makes it look Eze 14:30 - Apr 14 with 6673 views | ActonExile |
If we get another barrow load of cash from the gift that keeps giving (Eze) how much would we have to pay to get Edwards. |  |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 02:51 - Apr 15 with 2059 views | SuffolkHoop |
Just need that Eze money... [Post edited 15 Apr 2:51]
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 06:05 - Apr 15 with 1958 views | SimplyNico |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 02:51 - Apr 15 by SuffolkHoop |
Just need that Eze money... [Post edited 15 Apr 2:51]
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And give it to our recruitment team and Director of Football?
I spent a few hours on Sunday cycling with a guy who is involved at a pretty senior level at a Premier League club. We were discussing our collection of midgets. He called them "technical players" and laughed. He said we would probably have a pretty good five a side team though. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 09:53 - Apr 15 with 1771 views | BrizR |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 23:36 - Apr 14 by Northernr |
If Southampton misuse that lad, I'll not be in forgiving mood. I think there is insane potential there. He can obviously carry and play and all of that, but when we were spent on Saturday and our team was baggage it was him chucking himself in front of blocks and doing the dirty work. I think he's exceptional. I haven't seen a centre back like that, at that age, for a long time.
The big question we need to be asking our club is how is that lad playing for Barnet, 8 miles up the road, and then Peterborough, and it's Southampton picking him up. Where are we on that? He's moved twice for less culminative money than we spent on Madsen.
That's the sort of signing you pick up from physical scouting. People like Mel Johnson watching drek Barnet games on a Thursday night. We're too busy trying to pick things off the Excel spreadsheet in Switzerland. That guy, like Adomah, was playing non-league football within walking distance of our stadium and we never sniffed him. Now we're just grateful for a loan.
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He started playing league games at Peterborough when he was 17 and was doing 40+ games a season at 18. Played at Wembley and won a cup 10 days after turning 21. Liam Morrison, nearly identical in age and a player I think we all rate, was playing every other game in the German fourth tier when Edwards had already done 78 league games including 34 in the Championship; if Ronnie had sat on his arse and stopped playing football at the end of 2022/23 he'd still now have more league appearances than Morrison does and nearly double if you discount playing for Bayern II against pub teams. I'm convinced the only reason he's not playing in the PL is that Southampton have three older players in his position and they'll sell one of those first before doing the same with Ronnie in about 2027.
Even putting aside physical scouting, Peterborough beat us 3 times in one season in that period and Edwards started every game. All that development model stuff and nobody at the club looked at the teenager playing as starting centre back at a team that beat us every time we played them and thought we ought to have more of a look?
Love everything about him except that those surging runs out of defence will be going in the other direction next year as he helps Southampton smash their way back out of the Championship. [Post edited 15 Apr 9:53]
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 16:34 - Apr 15 with 1560 views | Third_Division_South |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 00:27 - Apr 15 by Northernr |
Jack Rudoni, at Wimbledon for years, literally four miles from our ground, available for a few hundred k. I think he even played a couple of games at Loftus Road, for them, during lockdown. We watched him, our head of recruitment loved him, and yet he goes up to Huddersfield for a game. Anybody watching the fcking EFL highlights on Quest would have spotted him. Might be about to get promoted with Coventry. Where are we signing players from? Brest.
Sorba Thomas, pacy, aggressive, fast winger. Not a bad go at replacing BOS, a pretty bloody decent go at replacing Willock. Playing at Boreham Wood, 15 minutes away. Huddersfield again. Terrorised us when he played us, made good money on him. Where are we signing players from? Lugano.
How are Huddersfield, an appallingly run club in West Yorkshire, picking up that on our doorstep, while we're signing Zan Celar?
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Mehmeti Is another one. Playing for up the road at Wycombe under Gareth Ainsworth. Scored his first professional goal against us and has 11 goals in 30 games this season as an attacking midfielder, stats we could only dream of but picked up by Bristol City. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 03:25 - Apr 16 with 1341 views | SuffolkHoop |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 00:18 - Apr 15 by Northernr |
How are Peterborough repeatedly picking these sorts of players up then?
A career Second Division club, with limited resources, insane manager churn, provocative owner... but repeatedly spotting, signing, developing and selling exactly the sort of player we should be all over and say is our raison d'être.
Why are Peterborough able to do this and we're not? Peterborough have signed at least a dozen of these that we should have been all over.
It's not luck.
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Assume you're including their captain Hector Kyprianou, still only 23, from Enfield.. playing for Leyton Orient as recently as 2022. Good player. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:45 - Apr 16 with 1134 views | QPRSam |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 00:27 - Apr 15 by Northernr |
Jack Rudoni, at Wimbledon for years, literally four miles from our ground, available for a few hundred k. I think he even played a couple of games at Loftus Road, for them, during lockdown. We watched him, our head of recruitment loved him, and yet he goes up to Huddersfield for a game. Anybody watching the fcking EFL highlights on Quest would have spotted him. Might be about to get promoted with Coventry. Where are we signing players from? Brest.
Sorba Thomas, pacy, aggressive, fast winger. Not a bad go at replacing BOS, a pretty bloody decent go at replacing Willock. Playing at Boreham Wood, 15 minutes away. Huddersfield again. Terrorised us when he played us, made good money on him. Where are we signing players from? Lugano.
How are Huddersfield, an appallingly run club in West Yorkshire, picking up that on our doorstep, while we're signing Zan Celar?
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I get the sentiment but
"Where are we signing players from? Brest."
Seems a bit misleading when this signing was based off a great season in the EFL with Blackpool, as was Morrison with Wigan, Vale with Bristol R.
We should be looking in the EFL for talent and I hope we continue doing so but I like that we don't limit ourselves to just these leagues. It's very telling when our POTS contenders include Varane, Saito and Nardi last playing in Spain, Netherlands and Belgium respectively. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:46 - Apr 16 with 1123 views | Northernr |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:45 - Apr 16 by QPRSam |
I get the sentiment but
"Where are we signing players from? Brest."
Seems a bit misleading when this signing was based off a great season in the EFL with Blackpool, as was Morrison with Wigan, Vale with Bristol R.
We should be looking in the EFL for talent and I hope we continue doing so but I like that we don't limit ourselves to just these leagues. It's very telling when our POTS contenders include Varane, Saito and Nardi last playing in Spain, Netherlands and Belgium respectively. |
Fair point. |  | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:54 - Apr 16 with 1087 views | GaryHaddock |
Searching for local talent is the ethical way to do it my opinion.
If the big four (England / Spain / Germany / Italy) drain the other leagues it’s difficult for them to develop. |  | | |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:54 - Apr 16 with 1089 views | QPRSam |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:46 - Apr 16 by Northernr |
Fair point. |
I wholeheartedly agree that we can be more opportunistic with talent in the EFL, especially locally. Even going to youth level, take Michael Olise, born and raised in White City, playing for Hayes and Yeading before bouncing around youth teams. I hope we're in a better position now to start getting these guys signed up. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:55 - Apr 16 with 1086 views | StreathamRanger |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 09:53 - Apr 15 by BrizR |
He started playing league games at Peterborough when he was 17 and was doing 40+ games a season at 18. Played at Wembley and won a cup 10 days after turning 21. Liam Morrison, nearly identical in age and a player I think we all rate, was playing every other game in the German fourth tier when Edwards had already done 78 league games including 34 in the Championship; if Ronnie had sat on his arse and stopped playing football at the end of 2022/23 he'd still now have more league appearances than Morrison does and nearly double if you discount playing for Bayern II against pub teams. I'm convinced the only reason he's not playing in the PL is that Southampton have three older players in his position and they'll sell one of those first before doing the same with Ronnie in about 2027.
Even putting aside physical scouting, Peterborough beat us 3 times in one season in that period and Edwards started every game. All that development model stuff and nobody at the club looked at the teenager playing as starting centre back at a team that beat us every time we played them and thought we ought to have more of a look?
Love everything about him except that those surging runs out of defence will be going in the other direction next year as he helps Southampton smash their way back out of the Championship. [Post edited 15 Apr 9:53]
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How do we know the club weren't interested but simply could not compete with Southampton who paid £3million for him? He was certainly on someone's radar as we brought him in on the first day of the transfer window. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:58 - Apr 16 with 1060 views | Myke |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 23:36 - Apr 14 by Northernr |
If Southampton misuse that lad, I'll not be in forgiving mood. I think there is insane potential there. He can obviously carry and play and all of that, but when we were spent on Saturday and our team was baggage it was him chucking himself in front of blocks and doing the dirty work. I think he's exceptional. I haven't seen a centre back like that, at that age, for a long time.
The big question we need to be asking our club is how is that lad playing for Barnet, 8 miles up the road, and then Peterborough, and it's Southampton picking him up. Where are we on that? He's moved twice for less culminative money than we spent on Madsen.
That's the sort of signing you pick up from physical scouting. People like Mel Johnson watching drek Barnet games on a Thursday night. We're too busy trying to pick things off the Excel spreadsheet in Switzerland. That guy, like Adomah, was playing non-league football within walking distance of our stadium and we never sniffed him. Now we're just grateful for a loan.
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Excellent point. Rather than drooling over the shiny jewel that is out of our price range, lets start panning for the hidden gems that are out there | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:03 - Apr 16 with 1038 views | 1010101010 |
Southampton brought him for 3.5 million so they would probably want more for maybe 4-5 million | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:04 - Apr 16 with 1032 views | Northernr |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 10:54 - Apr 16 by QPRSam |
I wholeheartedly agree that we can be more opportunistic with talent in the EFL, especially locally. Even going to youth level, take Michael Olise, born and raised in White City, playing for Hayes and Yeading before bouncing around youth teams. I hope we're in a better position now to start getting these guys signed up. |
I guess if I calm down a bit it's not about where they come from per se, it's just that our recruitment has been poor for a long time - bar one January where we got Austin, Field, De Wijs and Johansen to turn the season around, and last year where we shifted Dozzell and made good acquisitions in Andersen and Hayden.
I think it's good that we're looking to Europe, other clubs have found great value there, not least Brentford down the road. Preston have picked up really good players from Scandi etc. I just look at what we've done this year and, like 2021/22, it feels like we've missed another huge opportunity. There was money to spend, there was headroom, better TV deal, overspends rolling out. And, yeh, Nardi's ok, Varane's ok, Dembele potentially... But we haven't progressed as a team really. There is no big sellable asset which we desperately need. We have wasted very large amounts of money for us.
And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't.
Olise a great example. Philogene another local boy, playing in Uxbridge when he got picked up. It's been going on a while - Jamal Lowe was playing at Hampton, we end up taking him on loan when somebody else has discovered him, Albert Adomah was at Harrow and even supports the club, we end up taking him in his 30s when somebody else has discovered him.
From everything I've heard, from speaking to people like Mel Johnson, from listening to Gallen and others on the WLS, and what we see out there on the pitch, I don't think our physical scouting operation is where it needs to be, and I don't think our data approach is delivering.
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:21 - Apr 16 with 960 views | TheChef |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:04 - Apr 16 by Northernr |
I guess if I calm down a bit it's not about where they come from per se, it's just that our recruitment has been poor for a long time - bar one January where we got Austin, Field, De Wijs and Johansen to turn the season around, and last year where we shifted Dozzell and made good acquisitions in Andersen and Hayden.
I think it's good that we're looking to Europe, other clubs have found great value there, not least Brentford down the road. Preston have picked up really good players from Scandi etc. I just look at what we've done this year and, like 2021/22, it feels like we've missed another huge opportunity. There was money to spend, there was headroom, better TV deal, overspends rolling out. And, yeh, Nardi's ok, Varane's ok, Dembele potentially... But we haven't progressed as a team really. There is no big sellable asset which we desperately need. We have wasted very large amounts of money for us.
And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't.
Olise a great example. Philogene another local boy, playing in Uxbridge when he got picked up. It's been going on a while - Jamal Lowe was playing at Hampton, we end up taking him on loan when somebody else has discovered him, Albert Adomah was at Harrow and even supports the club, we end up taking him in his 30s when somebody else has discovered him.
From everything I've heard, from speaking to people like Mel Johnson, from listening to Gallen and others on the WLS, and what we see out there on the pitch, I don't think our physical scouting operation is where it needs to be, and I don't think our data approach is delivering.
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I assume physical scouting is more costly than someone with a laptop analysing data.
But then I don't understand our finances half the time anyway. Do we have money to spend (in the right way ideally) or not? |  |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:31 - Apr 16 with 926 views | KensalT |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:04 - Apr 16 by Northernr |
I guess if I calm down a bit it's not about where they come from per se, it's just that our recruitment has been poor for a long time - bar one January where we got Austin, Field, De Wijs and Johansen to turn the season around, and last year where we shifted Dozzell and made good acquisitions in Andersen and Hayden.
I think it's good that we're looking to Europe, other clubs have found great value there, not least Brentford down the road. Preston have picked up really good players from Scandi etc. I just look at what we've done this year and, like 2021/22, it feels like we've missed another huge opportunity. There was money to spend, there was headroom, better TV deal, overspends rolling out. And, yeh, Nardi's ok, Varane's ok, Dembele potentially... But we haven't progressed as a team really. There is no big sellable asset which we desperately need. We have wasted very large amounts of money for us.
And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't.
Olise a great example. Philogene another local boy, playing in Uxbridge when he got picked up. It's been going on a while - Jamal Lowe was playing at Hampton, we end up taking him on loan when somebody else has discovered him, Albert Adomah was at Harrow and even supports the club, we end up taking him in his 30s when somebody else has discovered him.
From everything I've heard, from speaking to people like Mel Johnson, from listening to Gallen and others on the WLS, and what we see out there on the pitch, I don't think our physical scouting operation is where it needs to be, and I don't think our data approach is delivering.
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"And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't."
This is what happens when you root your recruitment in data analytics without backing it up with scouting.
If you base your recruitment on data then you end up focusing on leagues where there is extensive data collection. I don't know how that works in non-league but I doubt there is as much data being collected as there is in the professional game.
And even in the professional game there is so much data being collected across the globe that you have to make decisions about where you are going to look and what sort of attributes you will be looking for.
The FIFA Football Report in 2023 said:
"Based on the report, there were 128,694 professional male footballers at 3,986 clubs in 135 countries around the world. Mexico had both the most professional players (9,464) - with Spain (8,560) and England (5,582) next - and the most clubs (244), followed by Türkiye (136) and Argentina (118)."
https://inside.fifa.com/legal/news/fifa-publishes-professional-football-report-2
Then think about how much data is being generated from that. Every player, every match, every data point.
That's a mahoosive amount of data. Even with sophisticated models and powerful computers you are not going to keep across all of it.
And all of this data. the models, the processing, and the nerds who are looking at it cost money. Money that is probably found by cutting back further and further on scouting.
But when you make decisions in advance about what sorts of attributes you want then that's what the data ends up giving you.
There's a danger you end up with identikit footballers.
If a young Les Ferdinand was starting out in non-league now he wouldn't have a chance of coming to QPR's attention. And even if he somehow did they would just look at his attributes on paper and say "not tall enough." | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 12:00 - Apr 16 with 849 views | Hooping_Mad |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:31 - Apr 16 by KensalT |
"And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't."
This is what happens when you root your recruitment in data analytics without backing it up with scouting.
If you base your recruitment on data then you end up focusing on leagues where there is extensive data collection. I don't know how that works in non-league but I doubt there is as much data being collected as there is in the professional game.
And even in the professional game there is so much data being collected across the globe that you have to make decisions about where you are going to look and what sort of attributes you will be looking for.
The FIFA Football Report in 2023 said:
"Based on the report, there were 128,694 professional male footballers at 3,986 clubs in 135 countries around the world. Mexico had both the most professional players (9,464) - with Spain (8,560) and England (5,582) next - and the most clubs (244), followed by Türkiye (136) and Argentina (118)."
https://inside.fifa.com/legal/news/fifa-publishes-professional-football-report-2
Then think about how much data is being generated from that. Every player, every match, every data point.
That's a mahoosive amount of data. Even with sophisticated models and powerful computers you are not going to keep across all of it.
And all of this data. the models, the processing, and the nerds who are looking at it cost money. Money that is probably found by cutting back further and further on scouting.
But when you make decisions in advance about what sorts of attributes you want then that's what the data ends up giving you.
There's a danger you end up with identikit footballers.
If a young Les Ferdinand was starting out in non-league now he wouldn't have a chance of coming to QPR's attention. And even if he somehow did they would just look at his attributes on paper and say "not tall enough." |
We've got more dwarfs than snow white. | |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 12:08 - Apr 16 with 823 views | KensalT |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 12:00 - Apr 16 by Hooping_Mad |
We've got more dwarfs than snow white. |
Not playing centre forward.
Or at least they're not meant to be!
Nor do we have any shorties at centre back. So Paul Parker is another we wouldn't even look at in this brave new data-led world. | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 12:30 - Apr 16 with 750 views | daveB |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 23:36 - Apr 14 by Northernr |
If Southampton misuse that lad, I'll not be in forgiving mood. I think there is insane potential there. He can obviously carry and play and all of that, but when we were spent on Saturday and our team was baggage it was him chucking himself in front of blocks and doing the dirty work. I think he's exceptional. I haven't seen a centre back like that, at that age, for a long time.
The big question we need to be asking our club is how is that lad playing for Barnet, 8 miles up the road, and then Peterborough, and it's Southampton picking him up. Where are we on that? He's moved twice for less culminative money than we spent on Madsen.
That's the sort of signing you pick up from physical scouting. People like Mel Johnson watching drek Barnet games on a Thursday night. We're too busy trying to pick things off the Excel spreadsheet in Switzerland. That guy, like Adomah, was playing non-league football within walking distance of our stadium and we never sniffed him. Now we're just grateful for a loan.
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When he played against us in the Championship a few years back my Dad was raving about him after the game and said we should be going after him once Barbet left. He played against Man City in the cup and although they lost he was the stand out player. Could have got him that summer for the kind of money we spent on Taylor Richards |  | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 13:32 - Apr 16 with 632 views | baz_qpr |
I cannot see him staying at Southampton, he was not very complimentary about how they had treated him since his signing, on one of the QPR podcasts.
I actually think a Prem team will buy him or loan him in the summer. Spurs will be watching every game we play, because of Yang. Can easily see him at Wet Spam, Palarse or one of the promoted Championship clubs.
Will be in the England squad by the time of the 28 Euros |  | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 13:38 - Apr 16 with 613 views | Northernr |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 12:30 - Apr 16 by daveB |
When he played against us in the Championship a few years back my Dad was raving about him after the game and said we should be going after him once Barbet left. He played against Man City in the cup and although they lost he was the stand out player. Could have got him that summer for the kind of money we spent on Taylor Richards |
Yeh but where's the fun in that? | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 13:55 - Apr 16 with 557 views | derbyhoop |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 11:31 - Apr 16 by KensalT |
"And that frustration does become particularly acute when the players are there in plain sight on our doorstep. As said above, Edwards played three times against us 21/22 for a relegated team that beat us three times. He was playing non-league football at the end of the Northern Line - Peterborough saw him, we didn't."
This is what happens when you root your recruitment in data analytics without backing it up with scouting.
If you base your recruitment on data then you end up focusing on leagues where there is extensive data collection. I don't know how that works in non-league but I doubt there is as much data being collected as there is in the professional game.
And even in the professional game there is so much data being collected across the globe that you have to make decisions about where you are going to look and what sort of attributes you will be looking for.
The FIFA Football Report in 2023 said:
"Based on the report, there were 128,694 professional male footballers at 3,986 clubs in 135 countries around the world. Mexico had both the most professional players (9,464) - with Spain (8,560) and England (5,582) next - and the most clubs (244), followed by Türkiye (136) and Argentina (118)."
https://inside.fifa.com/legal/news/fifa-publishes-professional-football-report-2
Then think about how much data is being generated from that. Every player, every match, every data point.
That's a mahoosive amount of data. Even with sophisticated models and powerful computers you are not going to keep across all of it.
And all of this data. the models, the processing, and the nerds who are looking at it cost money. Money that is probably found by cutting back further and further on scouting.
But when you make decisions in advance about what sorts of attributes you want then that's what the data ends up giving you.
There's a danger you end up with identikit footballers.
If a young Les Ferdinand was starting out in non-league now he wouldn't have a chance of coming to QPR's attention. And even if he somehow did they would just look at his attributes on paper and say "not tall enough." |
Surely, it has to be a combination of data analytics and physical scouting. The former needs a clear brief but the latter could be very expensive.
You need analytics to identify the targets, then the scouting can be better targeted. |  |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 14:00 - Apr 16 with 548 views | Northernr |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 13:55 - Apr 16 by derbyhoop |
Surely, it has to be a combination of data analytics and physical scouting. The former needs a clear brief but the latter could be very expensive.
You need analytics to identify the targets, then the scouting can be better targeted. |
The system that Coventry run... | | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 14:18 - Apr 16 with 506 views | aston_hoop |
Edwards career very similar to Harry Maguire at this stage, first team regular at 17 and 100 games before hitting 20. Prem move which he wasn't quite ready for, Championship loan and the back to his prem club once they were relegated to the Championship. Of course Maguire got promoted back to the Prem, and went on to captain England. Could see Ronnie hitting decent heights too if his career is managed well enough. |  |
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| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 14:26 - Apr 16 with 490 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 15:15 - Apr 14 by Landshark |
They purchased him less than 12 months ago for over £3 million. Peterborough are likely to have a large sell on clause so the only way for a sale to be financially viable for Southampton is if we put in a bid over £5 million, I suspect Southampton would want more than that to sell to a divisional rival though.
£5 million is about £4 million over our budget, even with the Eze money. |
I'm not sure we will be bothering Southampton too much next season.
The gap between the relegated Prem clubs and an average Championship club is huge.
With Luton being the current anomaly to what I just said ;p
I reckon Southampton might be silly enough to let him go, but don't underestimate the weighting of a players cost. Strikers and #10's like Eze are always more expensive than a CB, I think Edwards is good, but would he ever be worth £40m+ not sure! |  | | |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 14:37 - Apr 16 with 451 views | KensalT |
| Edwards just makes it look Eze on 13:55 - Apr 16 by derbyhoop |
Surely, it has to be a combination of data analytics and physical scouting. The former needs a clear brief but the latter could be very expensive.
You need analytics to identify the targets, then the scouting can be better targeted. |
That's great, provided the data actually exists.
I don't know what data is collected on non-league football. And I don't know how consistent and extensive data collection is around the globe.
If your starting point is always going to be the data then you are limiting yourself to leagues and clubs who are wealthy enough to invest in that sort of data collection, storage, and sharing.
Maybe the reason Peterborough are recruiting so well from the lower leagues is that they know the wealthier data-led clubs aren't bothering to really look there now. | | | |
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