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Smart clubs buy + sell players regularly to improve their squad, using every window as an opportunity to strengthen & to move on bad players.
Poorly-run clubs hoard players in a gambler's fallacy, ending up with a squad with 10+ transfer windows worth of deadwood.
#THFC
Poorly-run clubs hoard players in a gambler's fallacy, ending up with a squad with 10+ transfer windows worth of deadwood.
#THFC
The big clubs know who their next goalkeeper is. Spurs don't have one.
Most of the squad is not top 8 quality and are in clear decline, with no replacement in sight.
Most of the squad is not top 8 quality and are in clear decline, with no replacement in sight.
Clubs pay for detailed sport science and analytics services that give you detailed information & statistics on your players.
#THFC knew before anyone else which players had peaked, but decided to keep them & see their quality & transfer value decline as other clubs found out.
#THFC knew before anyone else which players had peaked, but decided to keep them & see their quality & transfer value decline as other clubs found out.
A common theme in poorly-run clubs is the management pricing their players with unreasonable valuations and underbidding for accurately-priced players in other clubs.
While underbidding is not harmful, overvaluing one's own players leads to paying high salaries for mediocrity.
While underbidding is not harmful, overvaluing one's own players leads to paying high salaries for mediocrity.
In classic gambler's fallcy, the club ends up losing more. Money spent on wages and the clear decline in the player's quality reduce the player's value, leaving the club to snatch a loss from the jaws of profit.
A club that tries to resign their former players (Bale), or Joe Hart (not good enough to be City's #2), trying to re-sign a player they just sold (Eriksen), shows how poor the scouting + talent identification system is at Spurs. #THFC
Poch: "We need a rebuild. It will be painful."
Everyone else: "We don't need a rebuild. And it will be painless."
Everyone else: "We don't need a rebuild. And it will be painless."
