Chelsea have made a new signing from Barcelona as Clearlake look to get the club back on track and fix up the inconsistent form.
Chelsea had a terrible January transfer window and have had a poor run of form as a result. They didn’t do much in the January window other than complete some loan deals out really.
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Joao Felix was one of the players who went out on loan to join AC Milan and despite a good start there, he has not had a good review in the last couple of games.
One player who is getting rave reviews though is versatile defender and midfielder Rentao Veiga, who joined Juventus on loan last month so he could play as a centre back. He is having a superb time there right now, and Juventus fans are urging their club to buy him on a permanent deal come the end of this season when his loan is up.
But it is not the players that Chelsea have improved here, they are improving their set of staff as they raid Barcelona for another one.
Chelsea hire Fernandez
According to Training Ground Guru, former Barcelona Head of Analytics Javier Fernandez has joined Chelsea as Director of Data Science.
They go on to say that Chelsea have been focusing on beefing up their data science capabilities since the takeover by Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly in May 2022.
And then they quote some quotes from Behdad Eghbali from back then:
“We’ve looked at it and we think European sports is probably 20 years behind US sports in terms of sophistication on the commercial side, sophistication on the data side.
“I had one super high-level Sporting Director at (one of) the world’s top three clubs tell me, when I asked about their approach to data, ‘The data’s my eyes, I pick players on my eyes.’
“He has six scouts, no data. We know of good sports teams in any league here (the United States), there’s 10, 20, 30 data analysts and wide use of data. That’s one area we think there’s a lot of runway for European sports.”
Director of Data Science? How many goals is he going to score. This club needs to get back to basics and send the owners back to the USA where they can concentrate on what they’re good at!
Honestly speaking this people don’t know football they’re actually killing Chelsea club
Like wtf is wrong with this foolish owners, is it that they don’t know football or they’re sent to bring down Chelsea club to zero because I don’t actually understand what is literally wrong with them.
I agree 100% with you.
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They did a mistake m pototinio Enzo m is not a chelsea coach level. Wanjala from Uganda
So Chelsea must follow the USA blueprint in football oh sorry soccer?
If the USA way is so good why then is the standard of football so bad over there?
These clowns must take their BS ideas and get the hell out of the UK and sell Chelsea to someone who understands football in the way it’s supposed to be.
In fact these fools should request that the British government reinstate Roman and allow him to buy back his beloved Chelsea.
When the owners of a big club like Chelsea say, they are going to emulate Brighton and hove Albion in Data and other areas, that means they don’t understand football at all. They are only interested in making money, but don’t realize that you have to win things to make money both in prize money and the value of player sales.
The bone headedness of these guys baffles me. God will punish that Chris Blunt MP who started the move to sanction Roman Abramovich