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 Read more…
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 Read more…
In the first part of this article we looked at what football investors could learn from the dot com bubble. Our conclusion was that it is worth investing in high risk ideas if the potential return is sufficiently large. Keep Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
How possession play influences defensive transition – tactical analysis Football can broadly be broken down into four moments of play. These include when in possession, out of possession, transition to defence and transition to attack. However, it was Pep Guardiola Read more…
In the first article we looked at why teams should aim to have an established core of players. This blog will look at why being able to anticipate who will play those minutes is key to the success of a Read more…
The Use of Asymmetrical and Atypical systems in Football. Football systems tend to come in many shapes and sizes. Usually, most systems these days have been implemented or tried out in one form or another. However, occasionally we will see Read more…
