[Albion] Interesting piece on USG, Bloom and the methodology

[Greg Bobkin]

Muzio is their chairman, and holds a minority shareholding, he is more their Tony Bloom because Tony isn't involved in the day to day running of USG. They've worked together before so he's clearly a very trusted lieutenant in Tony's empire.

Philippe Bormans is the CEO so he's their Paul Barber, he started the role about 5 months after Tony purchased the club.

Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification

 

[1066familyman]

Tony wins!

Seems wrong to me.

I seem to remember people not happy with Watford and their Udinese link up when we were in The Championship with them.

Maybe slightly different with Watford and the loan loophole they seemed to have discovered? Either way, I don't think it's healthy for one owner to own more than one club playing in the same federation.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Article written by Rory Smith of the Monday Night Club.

Looking at how USG set up and play, the ethos around the playing team, the success they're having, I'm starting to become more and more convinced that Felice Mazzu will be the man to replace Graham Potter when that day comes...

 

[Dave the OAP]

Does that make Mathew Benham Seven of Nine?

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Any excuse.......

You never need an excuse to show a picture of Jerry Ryan

 

[Dave the OAP]

Seems wrong to me.

I seem to remember people not happy with Watford and their Udinese link up when we were in The Championship with them.

Maybe slightly different with Watford and the loan loophole they seemed to have discovered? Either way, I don't think it's healthy for one owner to own more than one club playing in the same federation.

Everyone else is wrong unless it is us and then it’s the greatest thing. Remember the shite Abramovitch got for loaning out all these Chelsea players…….and now we have more out on loan than actually can fit in our changing room.

Modern football.

 

[andy1980]

Decent article, that. I see Muzio is effectively the USG equivalent of Paul Barber?

A possible replacement for PB when the 'great' man moves on

Not sure about the last few paragraphs, especially in the light of 'our' new Polish recruit's swift in and out to Belgium...

Muzio is the equivalent of Tony Bloom. He is Tonys Partner in this venture, owns 25% of the club and is Chairman. Tony chose well who to go into partnership with and seems to trust him 100% so he doesn't need to worry about the day to day aspect.

 

[Uter]

"The first step was to be promoted to Belgium’s top division within three years, and to do that, Muzio knew, the squad needed to be revamped. He presented the club’s experienced manager, Marc Grosjean, with a list of potential signings, all of them selected and assessed by Starlizard’s data.

Grosjean was not impressed. He used an expletive to describe Muzio’s suggestions, and then offered his own alternatives. “He told me that he would much rather sign a set of Belgian players, players that he knew,” Muzio said. It did not take long to find out what Starlizard’s metrics made of them. Muzio hardly relished it, but Grosjean was gone by the end of the month, his abrupt, if mutual, departure announced as “a difference of opinion on the sporting development of the club.”

“We have ways that we want to do things,” Muzio said. Resistance would only slow things down."

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If anyone was wondering what the inside of Starlizard looks like:



Looks like they are after Python programmers:

https://starlizard.com/join-our-team/data-scientist/

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

If anyone was wondering what the inside of Starlizard looks like:



Looks like they are after Python programmers:

https://starlizard.com/join-our-team/data-scientist/

Drones are just as dangerous as bottle tops

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Seems wrong to me.

I seem to remember people not happy with Watford and their Udinese link up when we were in The Championship with them.

Maybe slightly different with Watford and the loan loophole they seemed to have discovered? Either way, I don't think it's healthy for one owner to own more than one club playing in the same federation.

Watford and Udinese took the piss though, one season something like 12 players moved from Italy to Watford on mostly free transfers to get around the limit of a maximum of 5 loan players in a match day squad. These weren’t young players being sent out for experience either most were mid 20s seasoned pros. Bit different to us sending a couple of youngsters to USG for experience and/or to qualify for a work permit.

 

[warmleyseagull]

I’m sure I’m in a minority but to me this isn’t what football is or should be about. Clubs are the playthings of rich, foreign owners experimenting with probability.

For god or for bad, the developmental history of humankind is based on replicating what works. Why should sport be any different?

 

[Blues Guitarist]

If anyone was wondering what the inside of Starlizard looks like:

https://starlizard.com/join-our-team/data-scientist/

Note the toy seagull on the desk

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Interesting article for sure but makes me a little uncomfortable reading about Bloom and his partner basically buying a team for a play thing to see if they can beat the system and win the league.

On the plus side they seem to be absolutely smashing it but it doesn't feel like much of a fairytale

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[dazzer6666]

Note the toy seagull on the desk

The ‘fly through’ is best……

https://youtu.be/Hf3QvYnScDg

 

[golddene]

Does that make Mathew Benham Seven of Nine?

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Any excuse.......

Her name is Gerry Ryan after all