sudo rm -rf posted:

how are everton's chances of getting 3 points tomorrow?

Still B.A.E posted:

He's a loving old oval office, op

quote:

The workers watch footage of matches from around the world, and they code them in the most meticulous fashion. They look beyond a mere assist, for example, and examine whether the pass has enabled the goalscorer to shoot without breaking stride. Did it put the chance on the striker’s favoured foot? Was the goalkeeper properly positioned?

The numbers are a long way from being simple. The depth is extraordinary and every last detail is assigned a score, from which a comprehensive picture of players and, in turn, teams can be built.

The search for meaningful patterns, objective proof and deep-rooted truths has long since been embraced by baseball, American football and basketball. It is perhaps best known in baseball, where the successful, statistics-driven approach of the Oakland Athletics and their general manager, Billy Beane, spawned the book Moneyball.

Still B.A.E posted:

Arsenal bought a US-based advanced stats company.

DickEmery posted:

After a hundred million pounds, a hundred thousand matches and 4 years of advanced stats there's a hush in the room as everyone gathers around the DsZibOt9000.

Arsene Wenger : What does it say?
Steve Bould : It says lol arsenal is poo poo

'Arry posted:

He [Taarabt] is not injured. He’s not fit. He’s not fit to play football unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can’t pick him. I pick people who want to try, who deserve to be at a good football club like QPR, who come in every day and want to work, train and show a good attitude. When he starts doing that, if he ever can do it, maybe he’ll get a game.

We've got two or three of them but 99 per cent of the other lads … I've got a fantastic group of lads here, absolutely superb. I've just been asked a question [about Taarabt]. I can't keep protecting people, who don’t want to run about and train, and are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week and don't train? What's the game coming to?

Hoops posted:

Is there not some kinds of stipulations in contracts about fitness levels? If you can't finish level 15 or whatever on your bleep test you don't get paid that month.

Wirth1000 posted:

Good loving God, did they literally not learn a god drat thing from relegation?

serious gaylord posted:

Mannone has refunded all of the travelling Sunderland fans from his own pocket.

jooky posted:

Didn't taarabt play decent at Milan last year? He probably doesn't give a gently caress about playing for redknapp

Hoops posted:

Table's starting to shape up nicely now. The top 4 in the CL spots, Europa League teams in 5th-7th, then a big slide of shite all the way down to last-place QPR.

blue footed boobie posted:

It's great. He's not even in good shape for a normal person, much less than a professional athlete.

blue footed boobie posted:

It's great. He's not even in good shape for a normal person, much less than a professional athlete.

African AIDS cum posted:

Looks like Drake

vyelkin posted:

Leon Best

Gigi Galli posted:

Taraabt was really good for Milan, one of the only players out in the pitch who looked like he wanted to win games. Galliani and Berlusconi were just too cheap to pay up. I feel bad for him but getting fat and pouting around like an rear end isn't going to get him anywhere.

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mackintosh posted:

tweeted the polack who plays for Germany

Earthy Ape Unit posted:

which is of course why he would never play for spurs

Akileese posted:

Liverpool have recalled a 20 year old who was on loan at Swindon Town due to how terrible Jose Enrique was. What's going on with Moreno?

Akileese posted:

Liverpool have recalled a 20 year old who was on loan at Swindon Town due to how terrible Jose Enrique was. What's going on with Moreno?

Adel Taraabt posted:

I am a professional - this is not about retaliation, this is about protecting my reputation

I played in that reserve game for 90 minutes and if he didn't think I was running he could have taken me off. Maybe I didn't perform like I could because it was a reserve team game and I was protecting myself.

My job is to create, bring goals to the team. Maybe he expects me to make more tackles. I am not this type of player. I can only get fitness playing Premier League. You can train six or seven hours, but you won't be fit.

The training sessions aren't the same standard as Milan, or what I would expect under another manager

They are not as intense, the players aren't as motivated. It is the same as we used to do at Tottenham years ago. When we played West Ham he told the players "you're not fit, you're not this, you're not that".

I said 'but the problem is we don't have any plan in the game, we don't know how to press as a team’. It's not about just running around, you need to play with your brain.

After West Ham he said all of the team is not fit. After Liverpool, because the performance was so good, he said everything was perfect. What, in one week, he changed the fitness? Impossible.