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Design, Align, Build, Instil

All long-term team performance graphs are produced on FootStats Summary: Design – What do you want your club to look like in 5 years time? Align – get the people and processes in place you need to reach that point. Build – building is disruptive and messy but necessary to Read more…

By Tim Keech, 1 yearMay 7, 2021 ago
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What does a week at MRKT Insights look like?

What do the people in a football analytics company actually do all day? The truth is no two weeks are exactly the same, and transfer windows are as manic as everyone says.   The day starts with reading the messages that have come in overnight. Football runs on WhatsApp, and Read more…

By Tim Keech, 1 yearJanuary 15, 2021 ago
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Salmon vs Fish

Why do some clubs have a much higher success rate at transfers compared to their competitors? At MRKT Insights we are big believers in the concept of current success being a reflection of past decisions. And no decisions made by a football club are more important than signing players. Whatever Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsNovember 30, 2020 ago
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Don’t spend money on players, add capacity.

Note for existing Premier League billionaire club owners: Don’t spend money on players…not until you have read this article at least. Imagine you own a Premier League team and have £100m you want to spend to make that team more competitive. How would you spend the money? What would you Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsNovember 24, 2020 ago
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Prototyping to avoid the pattern of doom.

Despite a global pandemic, with spectators locked out of stadiums for the foreseeable future, there is still a lot of interest in club football from investors. There are of course many different types of football club owners; fans of the club fulfilling a childhood dream, very rich people having fun Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsNovember 10, 2020 ago
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Game Changing Investments – Coaches as surgeons

Accurately assigning credit is incredibly difficult. In football we may look at a team of eleven players who have just won a game by one goal to nil and try to break down what their individual contributions were. The headlines will always be about the goal scorer. He scored the Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsNovember 2, 2020 ago
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What can football learn from the dot com bubble?

The late 1990’s was a very interesting time in the stock market. The internet started to reach the public. Investors knew it was going to be a big deal. The dot com era was here. There was a period from about 1997-1999 where it seemed that adding “on the internet” Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsOctober 12, 2020 ago
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Buying the Vineyards – Player development in multi-club networks.

A phrase I use (too much) when talking about football investment is “buy the vineyards not the wine”. A fully developed Premier League level footballer will cost £25m + £100k a week in wages. A 5 year total cost of £50m. The single player purchase, in this tortured metaphor, is Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsOctober 1, 2020 ago
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Wisdom of the crowd

After a year working in football full time player valuation is one area that remains somewhat of a mystery. Football ability is granular, yes you get generational talents, but most of the time you are comparing players of roughly the same ability. A company like ours exists to find the Read more…

By Tim Keech, 2 yearsAugust 26, 2020 ago
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Roger Schmidt: First training session with PSV

With all that has been going on in the world recently, you may have missed the news that Roger Schmidt was unveiled as PSV’s new Head Coach ahead of the 2020/21 season.  Having become a hit with the hipsters with his high octane, vertical and press heavy style of football Read more…

By Chris Summersell, 2 yearsAugust 8, 2020 ago

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