The ever-increasing use of data in scouting amongst football clubs is becoming a real weapon in the modern game. Nowadays, every top-flight club employs specialist data analysts in recruitment to ensure that a player not only is pleasing on the eye, but the underlying numbers that summarise their skillset is also commensurate with their perceived …
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In the midst of Premier League sides scrambling to reinforce their squads in the quick six-week turnover between the 19/20 and 20/21 seasons, Chelsea have unarguably had the strongest window in the league so far. The shrewd acquisition of playmaker Hakim Ziyech in February, followed by the signing of German talisman Timo Werner have seen …
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After two months of slumber, the footballing world stirred for the first time in mid-May with the return of the Bundesliga, with the eyes of the world firmly glued to it. The Bundesliga arrived as a fully-televised footballing feast, after we were all unexpectedly starved of the beautiful game due to the coronavirus which has …
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