When reviewing Sporting Directors across the Premier League, four things stood out.
1. There is no standard job title. Sporting Director is the most common, held at nine clubs. Four use Director of Football, two use Director of Football Operations, two use President of Football Operations and one (Nottingham Forest) uses Chief Football Officer.
2. Clubs are moving towards specialist leadership teams (https://t.co/2fhCVW4Vtv)
3. Internal promotion is more common than expected.
4. Recruitment & academy remains the main pathway, with analytics emerging as a new genuine route into the role.
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Chelsea were the youngest team last season by a pretty large margin, the moves for some more veteran presence is interesting. That's a pretty big pivot away from the previous Clearlake model where they needed to play the kids for the player trading strategy.
One thing I always find fascinating is a nice sequence analysis.
There’s so much tactical info hidden on it.👇🧵
I have created a tool to analyse all sequence types so I can find similar sequences across other matches & teams.
Here’s Benfica last season
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