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If I were them, I would not advertise him going for above fair value, which he probably is.

You really need something like a possession value model to infer usefulness of his on-ball actions. Total dribbles is not interesting.

I didn't watch it. Scouted Football's review seems consensus opinion though - i.e. the award was weird and he wasn't England's best player

Not in Scouted Football's team of the tournament, who said: https://www.scoutednotebook.com/p/u21-euro-2023-team-of-tournament

Reminder he is literally the marketing guy who unlikely received any statistics training during his music degree.

I everyone has access to this data, and even the marketing guy can interpret it, there's zero edge in using it.

Technically, only a few blocks are mandated for first-year students, but culture dictates that the vast majority of people do not do live in them beyond this. As I mentioned, they are always significantly more expensive too.

These blocks are exclusively for first-year students who would never live anywhere else. They have not - nor will they ever - get anyone else beyond that to live in them. Many of these buildings are also extremely expensive as developers understand they have buyers who cannot practically access the private rental market. For example, The Verve (next to St James' park) has an entry price point of ~£700 pcm. That is obscene. We should not support anything about this.

Glad to see he's taken a break from trying to sell Jonathan David

"Newcastle United are keen on signing the Inter Milan midfielder Nicolò Barella as they prepare for their Champions League return next season. Newcastle officials are working on a bid in excess of £50 million for Barella, who played in his side’s Champions League final defeat by Manchester City on Saturday. Senior sources have indicated that there is still a long way to go before a transfer is concluded for the 26-year-old. Barella, who has 43 Italy caps, is on international duty for his side’s Nations League semi-final with Spain in the Netherlands on Thursday."

Delaney is alright, but "looking at commercial deals through the prism of equity" is especially difficult to stomach when Ashley paid below fair value for Sport Direct's association. Of course, nobody cared.

FWIW, Real Madrid fans generally respect the journalist reporting this.

Denied, but this guy is a left-sided CB

When you're faced with heavily asymmetric odds, idiots can own the extra upside by doing the only stupid thing nobody else would do.

Wouldn't take Tielemans if he paid us.

For sure - much the same as shots, possession, etc. However if you view a result as a sample from the probability distribution of all possible results, to me it is not uninteresting to understand the properties of that distribution. Whether a given xG metric is a good approximation of that expectation is another question.

Their model is probably crap, but how is it useless?

Most expected points models have them bottom. Southampton are probably better

Disagree. Man Utd are much more likely to finish above us.

Same guy, all within last few months. He's a joker. https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-newcastle-united-eye-move-for-james-ward-prowse/ https://www.footballinsider247.com/sourcesnewcastle-well-placed-to-agree-conor-gallagher-deal-after-huge-news/ https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-newcastle-united-in-talks-to-sign-goncalo-inacio-45m-offer-will-be-accepted/ https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-newcastle-united-plotting-to-sign-youri-tielemans-as-talks-revealed/

Because Benitez probably has no interest in a short-term deal. He wants a project that permits him sporting director control.

No Gordon expert, but guess from browsing Grand Old Team there's a non-zero chance he is total garbage: https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/anthony-gordon.115788/page-802

Underlying numbers are actually OK (e.g. biggest underperformance here https://understat.com/league/EPL, but can't comment on their model). Thought Leeds fans were split on him, unlike our boy Brucey?

Telegraph sport understands short-term cover will be sought with bids prepared for Eddie Nketiah and Henry Mauriss

He's a good player with some world class attributes but is possibly better suited as a CB. A possession-orientated side exposes him the most which makes a move to the elite difficult.