Sir Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United, expressed concerns about the club’s recruitment strategy, stating they have "completely missed the data revolution" in football. He attributed recent transfer blunders, including losing out on Geovany Quenda to Chelsea, to poor analytics and management. Ratcliffe criticized former executives for ineffective spending and emphasized the importance of data analysis by comparing United's approach to successful clubs like Liverpool and Brighton. He highlighted the need for a strong analytics department to improve future recruitment efforts, which is currently lacking at United.
The biggest correlation is between success and money. But then Manchester United broke the mould, because they spent the money so poorly.
United completely missed the data revolution, which Brighton and Brentford didn't, which Liverpool didn't either.
We're still missing out, because we still don't have data analysis at United.
Graham was the forerunner and United missed out.
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