How do you assess our transfer business?

itisrising said:
5/10. Dias fits the profile and will help but doesn't solve our fundamental weakness in midfield. Against mobile teams we'll need a double pivot but Gundogan doesn't work alongside Rodri and Dinho is 35. Douglas Luiz would have made so much sense this window. The fact that we didn't bring in a LB is almost criminal, it's as though we're asking for trouble.
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BillyShears said:
Sounds like absolute bollocks to me and exactly why analysts alone aren't the answer in football scouting.

Torres will be okay? Hmmm. Ake would not solve our defensive problems? Hmmm x 2. Dias has poor analytics. Hmmmm x 3.

Liverpool are leaving other clubs behind how exactly? Seems to me they're living off Mane and Salah coming in cheap. Outside of that what exactly is this amazing business they've done. All their other signings are either big money or failures. In Keita's case, both.
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Ahsan now I know you have a brain...do put it into gear. Take your City bobble hat off and consider that we might be able to learn from other clubs and that we aren't the best in every aspect of football.

Scouting is very important as is analytics nobody is saying one is the be all and end all.

If you can't see how much Liverpool have improved and don't think a lot of that is down, not just to Klopp, but their analytics team too then read up on it...it's not a secret.

Just because City buy a player doesn't make them great and all clubs make mistakes us included.

Saying "it's all bollocks" is the same as when when Geoff Stelling said the same about analytical recruitment and xG. Laughably naive and about ten years behind the times.

I quite often agree with your points but you are way off here. We can improve and should.

As to how Liverpool have done it and your statement about how they have mainly failed we'll I don't know where to start.

Maybe the analysts are wrong about our signings but they have a good track record and are paid a lot for having that opinion.

So maybe it's worth considering they might have a valid point as it's their job and not in fact "bollocks"

Sounds good though. You seem more measured on 93.20 but come across quite different when it comes to BM.

Be honest..if they had said, as they have in previous windows, that City had done brilliant business would it all have been bollocks then too?
 
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Cobwebcat said:
Ahsan now I know you have a brain...do put it into gear. Take your City bobble hat off and consider that we might be able to learn from other clubs and that we aren't the best in every aspect of football.

Scouting is very important as is analytics nobody is saying one is the be all and end all.

If you can't see how much Liverpool have improved and don't think a lot of that is down, not just to Klopp, but their analytics team too then read up on it...it's not a secret.

Just because City buy a player doesn't make them great and all clubs make mistakes us included.

Saying "it's all bollocks" is the same as when when Geoff Stelling said the same about analytical recruitment and xG. Laughably naive and about ten years behind the times.

I quite often agree with your points but you are way off here. We can improve and should.

As to how Liverpool have done it and your statement about how they have mainly failed we'll I don't know where to start.

Maybe the analysts are wrong about our signings but they have a good track record and are paid a lot for having that opinion.

So maybe it's worth considering they might have a valid point as it's their job and not in fact "bollocks"

Sounds good though. You seem more measured on 93.20 but come across quite different when it comes to BM.
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Sorry, I left out Robertson. That's three that I'd look at and go 'excellent scouting' - but leaving people behind do me a favour. They've come upon an incredible team which is in no small part to Klopp being the top coach he is.

As for their assessment of the three players we've signed, absolute bollocks in my very humble opinion. Certainly if I take your characterisation of what they said as gospel. Obviously I've not listened to it.

My head's not wobbling by the way, and I speak no differently on here than I do on the podcast. Not as far as I can tell although maybe I'm not the best judge.
 
argyle said:
It's a decent window. Not great considering we have weaknesses still at LB.

Rodri and Gundogan are a weak link when we come up against teams that don't allow us to do what we want and with Fernandinho ageing we badly needed a replacement/someone to rotate with him. When he was moved to defence last season we became vulnerable. Same as against Leicester, he was subbed and we fell apart.

The striker position has turned into a problem area and could be without Aguero at points through the season.
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Why is being without Aguero for parts of the season a problem? Jesus is more than good enough to be our first choice striker.

This is Aguero's final year as it stands so we should get used to him not being first choice.
 
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