why do some teams win and some lose?
today, I will explain the secret behind how the best pros predict & organize their football teams.
this is also how I helped a team gain over 500% ROI on transfer fees in one season!
a master’s thread 🧵/
God fully occupying human flesh was always the plan. That is why you have a spirit. And that is why the world was created for you. And that is why you seek to worship and glorify God. Because you are his temple. You exhibit the motions of God desire because you are meant to desire God.
But sin put a barrier between you and God. God in the heavens put his spirit in flesh to help humanity lift that barrier. That was Christ, the Man-God, who is the perfect image of God.
United are stuck in a bad cycle for simple reasons. They kept buying necessary and unnecessary players for huge amounts of money until, finally, the silver cord broke.
Yoro, Santos, Sesko—all recent, decent to good profiles; all overpriced. And it was much, much worse earlier.
You are Crystal Palace and it is 2021 again. You are about to sign Marc Guehi, but this time for a quoted £50M rather than the £20M—would you still do it?
Recruitment edge is not just in finding a gem for cheap but also in knowing when to move and when not to move; what is worth extending for and what is not worth it.
Brighton exchanging Van Hecke for Vuskovic is a recruitment edge. No large economic gain but the team and its athletic portfolio improved.
the sad thing is that the £80M spend on Tonali was NOT needed at all, especially after the Fernandes transfer.
so the edge here is not in finding a cheaper Tonali but in knowing that the position was not worth investing in
clarity is an edge
1/ Spurs’ technical director Johan Lange says scouting is now so good everywhere that finding undervalued players “for a tenth of the price – that race is over.”
I’m a quantitative investor. In my world, that’s how you describe giving up. 🧵
Dostoevsky is right. A corrupt system is, by definition, a small game. If you play by its rules like Machiavelli suggests, you will become small yourself and hurt your own soul.
Resist the instinct. Rise up to God.
Saka lacks speed in the carry; Tzolis lacks speed in the carry; Havertz lacks speed in the carry; Odegaard lacks speed in the carry.
That is why our counters look slow. Rogers, Vinicius, Alvarez—all our links are fast ball-carriers.
That's why Ethan Mbappe is important.
When he's on the pitch, I want to see Odegaard on the pitch with him.
Bruno G has utility across all 3rds & phases. Having Odegaard on the same pitch + Rice is an infinite tango between all 3.
Truly an infinite midfield.