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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& #39;s fallacy, ending up with a squad with 10+ transfer windows worth of deadwood.
#THFC
Poorly-run clubs hoard players in a gambler& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s own players leads to paying high salaries for mediocrity.
While underbidding is not harmful, overvaluing one& #39;s own players leads to paying high salaries for mediocrity.
In classic gambler& #39;s fallcy, the club ends up losing more. Money spent on wages and the clear decline in the player& #39;s quality reduce the player& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t need a rebuild. And it will be painless."
Everyone else: "We don& #39;t need a rebuild. And it will be painless."
