@wavygooner That’s very clearly exactly what’s happening though. He wants to stay at Madrid, and he’s openly using Arsenals offer to negotiate with Madrid. It’s just a matter of Madrid budges and if their offer is good enough for Vini.
@_joshkasten_@RobxAFC lol…. No. Rice is not going to play for CB. Gabriel is already the more aggressive between him and Saliba. Makes zero sense to play rice there
@Hosang@scottjwillis No, that’s wrong. Big spending would actually mean more losses through depreciation on an annual basis. If they were actually heavily sanctioned their bargaining position would also be weakened in transfers, meaning they’d likely also take huge actuarial losses on their sales.
@dannypea@jrh1729@12Xpert@Soccermatics There are different models for XG but all of them are determined by number of shots, their location, and other factors. Presumably a team with 11 attackers wouldn’t play well and wouldn’t have as many shots as a balanced team, yielding lower XG
@EmiSmithShowe I’m not sure if this is what people mean, but sometimes people suggest that over performing xg makes it more likely to underperform it later. This is the gamblers fallacy though. It regresses to the mean with a sufficient sample size because it’s the mean as stated.
@dannypea@12Xpert@Soccermatics What? “if team A) plays with 11 forwards, their predicted XG will be higher than a team playing 451”. Where are you getting this idea?
@asymmetricinfo What an odd world we live in where Washington post reporters are quote tweeting Twitter’s preeminent race “scientist” as if he’s one of their colleagues