[Albion] Liverpool's Mitoma regret, also: Gross, Mwepu, Cucurella and Estupinan

[Slum_Wolf]

What do you think the fee actually paid was?

Official: Darwin's transfer communicated to CMVM

Information provided by Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Futebol, SAD after agreement reached with Liverpool FC....

www.slbenfica.pt

 

[Weststander]

Reported £80m wasn’t it? Probably less in the real world though.

£64m ... unusually known, because the selling club had to release the data to the Portuguese Stock Exchange.

The add-ons will never be paid because Manure plastics and people here stated he'll never produce goals or assists.


The signing that never worked out was £50m Naby Keita.

 

[Weststander]

Official: Darwin's transfer communicated to CMVM

Information provided by Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Futebol, SAD after agreement reached with Liverpool FC....

www.slbenfica.pt

Includes the add ons.

 

[Surf's Up]

Some interesting Albion insights in the book "How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution", Ian Graham, Liverpool's former Director of Research...

"At Liverpool we admired both Brentford and Brighton’s signings, though we never told them that. Me and my colleague Daf Steele used to keep lists of players who looked outstanding in their domestic leagues but were either not quite good enough for Liverpool or played in a style that didn’t fit ours.

"Brighton also signed players on our radar. Pascal Gross performed at an above-average Premier League level while playing in the second division of the Bundesliga, and has played at that level for years for Brighton. Enock Mwepu was the best young midfielder in Austria.

"Marc Cucurella was easily a Premier League level player while playing in Spain, and when Chelsea paid a barely credible £62 million to sign him, Brighton immediately replaced him with the only young full-back in Spain who rated at a similar level, Pervis Estupinan.

"Kaoru Mitoma was the best player in Japan, rating above the Premier League average. It was very rare for us to rate a player in Japan anywhere near Premier League level. It’s still a source of regret to me that I didn’t insist that Mitoma be more seriously considered as a potential Liverpool signing."

I wonder where Brentford got their data driven approach from

 

[Justice]

£64m ... unusually known, because the selling club had to release the data to the Portuguese Stock Exchange.

The add-ons will never be paid because Manure plastics and people here stated he'll never produce goals or assists.


The signing that never worked out was £50m Naby Keita.

Manure plastics?

 

[Weststander]

Manure plastics?

Bitter Manure fans over the internet in general, desperately hoping that Nunez becomes the equivalent of £86m Antony or £80m Maguire.