From Richard Metliss : algorithmic squad
If that is so, then there are some spectacular failings of the mathematical theory.
We have a squad full of underachieving / consistently injured / dead wood costing a fortune that no one wants at contracted price.
Maybe the Harvards involved are not privy to this critical part of the equation?
Maybe there is no accounting algorithm allowance for president Wenger’s tolerances…
Makes the whole effort questionable at best, farcical at worst – even if AFC are in profit.
From Haroon Rauf : algorithms
Does the influence of Harvard and the calculations of player value for future reference mean Wenger accepts he is a selling manager and has made us a selling club?
Oh to have players commit their playing days to us.
2 of the very best did in Bergkamp and Tony Adams.
Such a shame that we feel there is a need to sell players on.
Nick : Ian’s Theory:
If Ian’s theory is true, then we are truly dealing with a man who no longer has a grasp on reality.
The content of Ian’s post are just beyond belief.
Why bother supporting AFC?
Arsene Wenger is a complete nutcase in that case. It makes me laugh.
From Neil : no resale value if you buy £40 million players
Wenger is a resale man, he buys nothing unless he can convince himself there is a profit to be made when the player leaves the club.
I can go back to Anelka, purchased for £500,000, sold for £23 million.
Vieira, not sure of purchase price, but it was less than the money Wenger got back from Inter, Henry, bought for £10 million sold for £16 million.
Cesc, a steal from Barca, sold back to them for huge profit ; Song, Van Persie, Adebayor.
Sure, there have been flops, but for the most part Wenger is in the money-making business.
Sure he won a few trophies early on but now he gets his jollies from buying low, selling high, the same deal that thrills Kroenke
They are a match made in heaven.
If Arsenal had another owner other than Kroenke, Wenger would be on his arse out of this club ages ago, no one in his right mind would endure this painful saga
It’s the easiest thing in the world to fix
SACK THE MANAGER, PROBLEM SOLVED.
Myles says:
I knew nothing about Harvard’s algorithms until Ian Grant told me this story last night.
Wasn\’t it Harvard mathematicians whose models guided Russia\’s catastrophic transition from a State-owned economy to the corrupt asset-grab where a handful of oligarchs stole half the mineral wealth of a very large continent? The Russian people did well out of that, didn\’t they?
Jock Stein won the European Cup in 1967, beating Inter Milan.
Celtic showed how Manchester United how to do it a year later.
Jock Stein and Matt Busby knew which players could blend together and that art is still important.
At Nottingham Forest, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor didn\’t have Law, Best or Charlton. They only had Gemill, Robertson and Woodcock. But Forest won it and then retained it.
On Wenger, I told you four years ago that he was lost in his laptop.