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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Spursidol said:
The reason why HG rules were invented was to try to get clubs to play young English/HG players as clubs tended to find it easier to buy experienced players from abroad rather than train their own youngsters (but its an idea used in other european countries with slightly different rules).

Has it worked - yes to a limited extent as there are more better quality English/HG players now than their were say 10/20 years ago. But you only need to look at Spurs to see that in last decade assorted coaches have tended to overlook the idea of some sort of focus on bringing youngsters through. To put that into context Spurs had 3 players who won the u17 world cup in 2017, but none made it through Spurs, so its not lack of quality players, but the (un)willingness of coaches to play the kids or loan them out to bring them through.

The pricing of HG players comes back to how few come through the system, through coaches unwillingness to have a plan to bring them through - itself no big surprise when you know it might take 6 years to bring a youth player through, whilst average tenure of a PL coach is about 15 months !

The site you've posted is fine. Just need to know a little about the players to make it useable - for example we have Austin and Whiteman as HG GK's but we are only likely to use one as 3rd GK, loaning the other out, so little advantage in having two of them !.
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In all fairness, those 3 players - Oakley-Boothe, T. J. Eyoma and Kirby - simple weren't good enough; which is why they never got games for Spurs. They are all playing in the lower divisions now.
8 of the squad players are now still with an EPL club.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup squads - Wikipedia

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FightingIllini said:
What the analytics computer he and the recruitment staff have been reported to be working with will say is that Johnson's statistics for dribbles and take-ons and the like for a player of his age correlate with outstanding players.

The eye test says differently. Synthesizing the two in a reliable way will be what separates the good transfer market operations from the bad ones.
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Too late, already decided that he gets on base.

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In all seriousness though I've been quite pleased with our scouting so far this window. I'm not personally a fan of Brennan Johnson but if Big Ange wants him and they have a good rationale for going for him, let's see.
 
FightingIllini said:
What the analytics computer he and the recruitment staff have been reported to be working with will say is that Johnson's statistics for dribbles and take-ons and the like for a player of his age correlate with outstanding players.

The eye test says differently. Synthesizing the two in a reliable way will be what separates the good transfer market operations from the bad ones.
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He's not a good dribbler, he wasn't a good dribbler in the Championship even. The things he does have going for him are that he's homegrown, young, and very fast.
 
FightingIllini said:
What the analytics computer he and the recruitment staff have been reported to be working with will say is that Johnson's statistics for dribbles and take-ons and the like for a player of his age correlate with outstanding players.

The eye test says differently. Synthesizing the two in a reliable way will be what separates the good transfer market operations from the bad ones.
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I don’t think the advanced analytics are all that great.
 
Airfixx said:
Whatever is the least rewarding, most hard work drills to do around the training centre, just have him that all day every day for the max amount of hours.... And ban him from the canteen so he has to fill his greedy fucking face all on his own.

No more than 20 mins break every 6 hours.


UK Law: "If you work for more than 6 hours a day, you're entitled to an uninterrupted rest break of at least 20 minutes - for example a tea or lunch break. You must be allowed to take it during the day rather than at the beginning or end."
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You can’t ban any contracted player from the training ground. Back in the old days you could make players train themselves but now they have to train in a group of a certain number.
 
FightingIllini said:
I would absolutely recommend it. Are you a baseball fan? I would wonder a bit how much someone who wasn't super familiar with baseball would get out of it, it gets nerdier than the movie does, but it's a great read and a study of ideas that really opened my mind at 16.
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To be honest, I'm not really knowledgable re: baseball (though I find it relaxing to put on occasionally). Perhaps I'll prioritise The Big Short as far as Michael Lewis books where I've seen-the-movie-but-not-read-it goes.

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