Don't be daft. There are always outliers. And City is an outlier not because it spends more on transfers (it doesn't actually), but because it spends more on salaries, which has a higher correlation to performance than transfer fees.
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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Right about what?
I'd start him tonight tbh, and happy for him to stay in the squad, he is a great professional and always puts a shift in, he has application which will see him steadily improve into his 20s as long as he is coached well. Could be a very effective 6 for us if he can pick up some tips off Bissouma on how to be elite at press resistance.
Because other top teams are severely hampered by FFP at the moment and we are more secure, not to sign at least another top player seems to not taking advantage of the situation as other top clubs will have more freedom for purchases in the Summer.
I’d go for Skipp,Maddison and Bentancur tonight with Sarr, Bentancur and Hojbjerg away to Everton. Good chances for substitutions on the hour mark.
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He looks like Regullion with a tash!
I'm pretty sure that's what we are trying to do, but it's easier said than done.
It might have little correlation for short term improvement over the following 6 months, but it sure has correlation over the long-term.
That January signings don't generally move the needle in terms of performance. There are outliers, of course, but on average the impact is not that great.
Does the analysis of that look at transfers by number of players, cost, and points per game before Jan and after Jan?
That it does, but usually over a 2-year horizon.
I think it's a bad question to start an analysis with anyway.
Are they asking if January transfers can move the needle in terms of performance?
or
Have January transfers been regularly successful at moving the needle for performance?
The answer to the first one is unquestionably, yes.
The second one is harder to answer and you probably can't even study it properly with quantitative data alone.
It looks at transfers across an entire season, if I am not mistaken. The premise of the analysis, which is in Soccernomics, is that wages have a much stronger correlation to performance than transfer spend does. This analysis was published a few years back and, now that I'm thinking about it, more data analytics entering the transfer decision-making might yield somewhat different results if it were conducted again today.
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I mean that graph that was shown is exactly how you’d measure it.
Yeah but teams that have high wages also have high transfer spend. It’s very obvious that both wages and transfer spend would have a strong correlation to winning.
If the study only looks at wages and transfer spend against performance in the current year, then that’s just a flaw in the study because wages are spread out evenly over several years and transfer spend is usually only taken into account at the time of purchase, but that transfer still has impact for several seasons after.
I just want Olise has missed 10 games this season and apart from last season has been very injury prone while at Palace. Eze has missed 6 games. I do not think either player should go for anywhere near the prices people are saying. Also I think most of you are overating them.