Kenneth Zohore

Frozen Horse said:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that.
If I remember rightly, you are a fan of the Moneyball approach? My understanding of the book (somewhat lost in the film) is that statistics were always used in baseball selection. What changed was the identification of which statistics actually made a difference to results.

So I think you do have to pick and choose which statistics you use, and I'd suggest goals per game is not a good one to pick. More detail is needed.

Furthermore in football, I think it's likely to depend on what else you have. A striker with great stats from running in behind and scoring isn't going to replicate that in a team who mainly attacks by getting in plenty of crosses, right?

Likewise, I believe possession stats are fools gold. On any given matchday, more teams with 50%+ possession lose than win. Possession in the final third, however, is a different story.
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I’m a fan of MY moneyball approach. But yeah, you’re right that’s what I meant by picking and choosing players based on stats without building a model first.
 
Four maybe five players. A goalkeeper, a midfielder, two strikers and maybe a central defender.

The Goalkeeper: Dillion Philips wanting close to £1m

Midfielder - Ben Whiteman
interested a few weeks ago quoted £1.5m now asking for £500k - Warnock no longer interested?

Two strikers:
Sanogo’s agent wanted £35k a week.. now asking for £15k?
Zohore I’m guessing is the number one target that the club would only deal with outgoing transfers/loans until very recently.

The Maybe Defender - Ben Gibson??
 
If the above are the players he was talking about it's interesting how folk value players. Also very much shows the current land scape how prices are already falling.

I think philips at 1mil seems decent even in final year. We are clearly playing hardball and not budging on what we offered.

You'd think the 400k value of a player must be league 1 or 2.

One player we definitely miss out on was Joe Williams. Warnock said in his presser that we talked to Wigan for 4 weeks about him.
 
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