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IN-DEPTH | Summer transfer window 2021
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My faith was wavering at the season of the start .. the recent signings have reignited my belief ..4
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Aggghhh it's Ged the root of evil!3
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Aaaaargh, even Thomas says "the proof is in the pudding"
Validation is not a fecking threepenny bit ffs0 -
Great article, nice to see the club come out and give a full update from all corners.“Smart, sensible and sustainable is the transfer strategy in place” what a beautiful sentence to see associated with our club, we bloody deserve it too!8
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What does the black box think of Jacob Roddy? 😏4
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Many fans thought they deserved an explanation about the direction we were taking in the transfer window. It's good that there is transparency as to the policies in place.9
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Nice to have a plan other than 'let's milk this club for all its worth '.5
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We knew they'd be rebuilding our recruitment set up but great to find out more about it. As you'd hope to hear we're combining analytics, video and traditional scouting, they all have a part to play.
It's not so much a revolution but bringing us in line with where we should be, the kind of things well run clubs have done well for years.
Interesting to see a few people named on the OS for the first time, recruitment analysts Ruben Sammut and Aaron Barnes (our former academy player, explains why he was at a game recently), and Dan Pelchen.
Looking at Pelchen's LinkedIn he was at Chelsea as Lead Recruitment and Data Analyst:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-pelchen-7b78a674
Sammut is also on LinkedIn, his role with us is '1st Team Recruitment Coordinator'. 'Ruben' was mentioned in an interview (Adkins I think) earlier this year and from what a few had said it seemed clear it was him.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruben-sammut-67292712a
Roddy also mentions looking at what we can learn. It's clear they did that ahead of this summer with younger players joining on permanent deals and older loan players rather than the Smith/Smyth/Levitts coming in. This summer should give them a better picture of our position in the market. Hopefully we won't need to sign so many late on or even after the window.
They've also been open that we'll sell players. We've already seen signs of it, Bonne being the best example, ultimately sold because the offer was too good to turned down. Nothing wrong with that if it's combined with ambition and some of the money is reinvested in the squad, something we never saw under RD.
Looking forward to seeing how our squad develops over the next few years.14 -
Just looked at Dan Pelchen's LinkedIn profile. Worked with Collingwood Football Club (Aussie Rules) and Chelsea over the last seven years in an analytics capacity (both performance analytics and recruitment).
Have to say I'm mega jealous - think that would be my dream job!7 -
It’s a great article and great to have the transparency
it still won’t be enough for some though2 - Sponsored links:
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Interesting article.
Hope the club does more of this sort of longer, more in depth article.
Good to find out who the analysts are and some of the process. Some young guys in there like Barnes.
I thought the use of both stats and human factors was the most important alongside it being long term.
It won't please everyone and yes it's from the club so not unbiased.
But the proof of the pudding will be in the eating.
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Just looked up Dan Pelchen on LinkedIn. Looks young, but he’s got great hair!
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Don't ever do that againLoOkOuT said:Just looked up Dan Pelchen on LinkedIn. Looks young, but he’s got great hair!
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So no loans, short contracts, free transfers… ok right. That might have been the intention but it certainly wasn’t the outcome, maybe address that?3
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Oh and 51% is a majority - can we have less spin and pr please?1
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We can only wait and see if this system works, if they are pleased with the business we have done and it has all been generated by the 'Black Box' then anything less than promotion this year will be a failure.
What I find strange is they speak as if the players we have signed will take us all the way to The Premiership on their long term contracts with age on their side however we all know in reality to compete in a league above you have to strengthen again to remain competitive.
A lot of our players are average to good League One players at best, they may well struggle in the Championship.
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Rome wasn’t built in a day. What did you want them to do? Out everyone and then sign a whole new squad on four year deals? It will take two/three/four seasons to sort out the squad issues inherited but I’m sure they will get there.razil said:So no loans, short contracts, free transfers… ok right. That might have been the intention but it certainly wasn’t the outcome, maybe address that?10 -
So Pelchen is an Aussie with a doctorate in Human Resources Analysis who worked at Chelsea for a couple of years.
Aaron Barnes is a former player now at Dulwich doing some analysis alongside his non-league career.0 -
Barnes is at Welling! I win this round!!Henry Irving said:So Pelchen is an Aussie with a doctorate in Human Resources Analysis who worked at Chelsea for a couple of years.
Aaron Barnes is a former player now at Dulwich doing some analysis alongside his non-league career.2 - Sponsored links:
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Just as well we only have a few with contracts long enough to play in the PL in that dream scenario.eaststandmike said:We can only wait and see if this system works, if they are pleased with the business we have done and it has all been generated by the 'Black Box' then anything less than promotion this year will be a failure.
What I find strange is they speak as if the players we have signed will take us all the way to The Premiership on their long term contracts with age on their side however we all know in reality to compete in a league above you have to strengthen again to remain competitive.
A lot of our players are average to good League One players at best, they may well struggle in the Championship.
We have a good number due to end next season too. I think we'll see players leaving and *hopefully* being replaced with better year on year by default.
We just have to hope that each time we're moving up a level.0 -
Good PR and glad they're being more transparent about their processes than other set-ups in the past.
Proof is in the League Table though. Everything is just words until we start (or continue) winning.2 -
Football espionage moves on from the spy at the training ground.
Tech savvy agents could break into our black box, insiders could sell our data, our systems could be hacked, accessed remotely and compromised.
Even worse Dan Pelchen might get kidnapped and have tea cups thrown at him. Once he cracks and reveals the secrets of our algorithm, we'll all be done for
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Also the honesty that we will sell players to raise money just as most clubs do.4
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The strategy is not to (loans count as short contracts for a year or less)Scoham said:
Where did they claim we wouldn't use loans, short contracts and sign free agents?razil said:So no loans, short contracts, free transfers… ok right. That might have been the intention but it certainly wasn’t the outcome, maybe address that?
‘In the recent past, with the previous ownerships, the strategy has been focused on free agents and/or players on a one year contract. That existence has been hand to mouth. It is one which wasn’t sustainable. ‘
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People who don’t admit when things didn’t go quite to plan worry me,
it’s pretty much back to pre Duchatelet hands off (when the club was in limbo), hardly a revelation
they even talking about selling players - hardly learning from the past, again better than Duchatelet limbo I suppose when players went for nothing
so far a long way from equalling the spivs first window3 -
And we have signed DJ, long term contractrazil said:
The strategy is not to (loans count as short contracts for a year or less)Scoham said:
Where did they claim we wouldn't use loans, short contracts and sign free agents?razil said:So no loans, short contracts, free transfers… ok right. That might have been the intention but it certainly wasn’t the outcome, maybe address that?
‘In the recent past, with the previous ownerships, the strategy has been focused on free agents and/or players on a one year contract. That existence has been hand to mouth. It is one which wasn’t sustainable. ‘
Kirk, long term contract
Stockley, long term contract
Levelle, long term contract
MacGillivray, Clare, JFC and Dobson, 2 years
We have an option on Famewo, I am assuming on a long term contract
In two windows. There was a suggestion we wanted to buy Leko, so we still might, that would be on a long term contract.
If we had 25 players on 4 year contracts and didn't go up everyone would be kicking off that we couldn't get rid of the useless feckers.
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Can’t we have one thread on this website that gets to page 2 before someone shits on the original post/link, even when it’s a superb open letter to the fans from the club!4
