OM DENNE EPISODE
Directors of Football becoming household names, scouting by numbers and 'the eye test'. The world of football recruitment has changed a lot in recent years and we get into the data on this episode of Decision Makers, as Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Managing Director of Unique Sports Group Marlon Fleischmann, former Premier League defender Curtis Davies, and former Director of Technichal Performance at Tottenham Hotspur, Steve Hitchen.
This episode is all about the role that data and anayltics play in football, specifically how they're used to recruit and monitor performance. Steve's reveals his experience in data while at Spurs and explains why Tanguy Ndombele is the biggest dissapointment in his time at White Hart Lane.
We hear where Manchester United have been going wrong in the transfer market, what happened when Kevin de Bruyne's agents brought his stats to contract renewal negotiations and how players can be signed, monitored and even substituted based on their performance data.
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