@GoldsteinRec Some of the briefs they fed local journos like Pearce was like they compiled the tweets of all Liverpool fans and asked ChatGPT to write a statement that would best appease the fans, nonsense about high intensity football and identity. Expected better from mgmt tbh
@GoldsteinRec@EscoFiles That didn’t happen here since Cherki and kdb aren’t similar. But if the algo was actually fit for that it’d be silly. I can only imagine what would happen if lpool searched for “the next salah,” it would probably give akliouche or some trash. Maybe that’s how they found barcola
@GoldsteinRec@EscoFiles I think clubs will always run into problems when they approach replacing a player by trying to find the “next” version of that player. Your replacement doesn’t need to be 1:1 stylistically and programming the data to show that will much of the time spit out average players
@TheTimothySteve Be an acceptable signing on its own. Even though the Barcola deal would and will be awful value, it’s a fine player. All 3 shows a neglect for proper team building and balance. Last summer was also bad building but the players were good enough to maybe ignore it. Not the case now
@TheTimothySteve Going into a summer with 250m+ to spend on 2 RW and 1 LW and ending up with Barcola, Minteh, and Munoz, and then trying to convert a player already on the team better than those three to a RW when he is clearly not is nothing short of an unmitigated disaster. One of those 3 would