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Posted by HH on 7/6/2025, 7:46:46
Apologies if an iceberg but a decent interview with him from January 2024
People were calling for a tweak to the structure. So on paper, it looks like a positive and necessary step. Let’s see if the changes translate into better outcomes.
In fairness, some of our recent windows have been very different circumstances to normal (trying to sign players in the prem without overcommitting/ensuring they accept clauses etc; then trying to battle off undermining influenced last Summer). Our last few years also saw us spreading our network across diverse international leagues, which can be tricky but presumably the aim was to be like Brighton as per Chapple’s prior work with them.
Hopefully in league one we can get more towards our prior strength of recruiting from English leagues, where it is more straight forward to compare and contrast players. Not sure how hard it is to assess Danish/Belgian leagues compared to here, for example and I’m not sure how much support the club have in place for overseas players integrating into a new country.
We know the club is data led, but as you say, it would be interesting to know how how they weigh the data of someone playing in a comparatively weaker league vs other targets playing in supposed stronger leagues in England.
Everyone and their aunt uses 'data led recruiting' now.
How many do it well is a different story.
I imagine in the games Baptiste actually played he probably has good stats for passes completed or progressive carries or something, which flagged up in certain filters. The fact he only plays a two games a season wouldn't have come up until later
Your last sentence is utter fucking nonsense, his injury record would have been the first thing to come up. They took a gamble on him and unfortunately last season it didn't come off but if we keep him fit next year he's easily one of the best midfielders in div 3,if not the best.
When fit Baptiste is easily one of our best players and one of the few I'd genuinely heard of when we signed him. Probably has a bigger profile in the game than many of our Prem signings like Mads, Giles, Brown and Ogbene.
Absolutely tore League One apart when at Oxford United (when fit!) and sold to Brentford for around 2 million.
Good enough to play 55 times in the Premier League for Brentford.
Scored an own goal for us when we beat Brentford 2-1 in the Championship.
I don't think there was much data analysis required, I think we just decided to take a gamble on a player that on his day is easily Championship standard - but sadly injured much of the time.
I guess the more important research and analysis would have been would he pass the medical, which he did - so we gambled.
The fact that we decided to take Walsh on as well who had a similar playing / injury history was a bit mad though.
I really hope we can get Baptiste fit because on his day he is a hell of a player for League One.
No it doesn't. Depends on how the data is displayed. There's probably a player page of some sort that would have that information on but is that separate to other statistics?
I don't know, but if you do know please feel free to share I would find it genuinely interesting.
I suspect you're right, but also I wouldn't be surprised if he does score highly in some metrics as he does seem a decent enough player when fit
Although saying that, at the ltst evening GS bristled a bit at the suggestion we struggle with injuries. Someone suggested Brown might be injury prone iirc and Sweet went on about how his latest injury is an impact injury that can't be helped
TBH, my hunch is thag I wouldn’t read too much into those comments from GS.
I don’t think he should be coming out publicly and saying certain players are injury-prone, that’s not really something you want the CEO putting out there.
That said, I would hope (and suspect there is) there’s a bit more acknowledgment internally about our injury issues. We’ve had spells, like in the Premier League and again this season, where multiple players were out at the same time. That doesn’t just feel like bad luck. It starts to look more like a problem with conditioning or how we manage players physically.
They have acknowledged it a lot, including investing a million in the training pitch because they identified a lot of non impact injuries were occurring in training because of the heavy pitches at times. Apparently a few teams found the same.
Yes indeed. But one of the key take aways from that article was that it will take time and several transfer windows.Live justly, love mercy, perpetuate generosity, walk humbly.
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