What exactly do you think is the difference Luke?
And I suppose I'm arrogant as well if I agree with Swab.
I've explained it as basically as I can Si. If you don't get the difference now, or refuse to, you probably never will, but ask yourself why you'd want a DoF (something you've always wanted) instead of what we have, when that's exactly what Dortmund have and not what we have. You maintain they're the same yet you're shown reasons why they're different and still keep saying they're the same, it's unbelievable to be honest.
Which is better, Dortmund's approach or ours? If you can answer definitively that one is better than the other, how can they be the same?
Ask yourself why we bought two players for the same position and still managed to choose the wrong player out of the two to start games.
We have no direction with our choices, the disconnect is as obvious as it could be, one time the committee chooses (this is where the over reliance on statistics debate comes in and our over reliance on them without a DoF to guide the decision therefore making appropriate use of the statistics rather than using them as the driving force behind the decision as demonstrated previously) the next it's Brendan, honestly a broken system on conception.
Behave yourself.
There's fuckall difference between what we do and what other clubs do.
Now if you want to talk sensibly about the analysts role and how effective he's been (along with his team), go right ahead, but if you continue to post made up lists about what you "believe" I'll have to pass, because making a list of the players you "believe" are "committee" buys in order to try and be "right" is what I call immature.
A belief backed up by facts and numerous reports, it's almost universally accepted that those players were committee signings, the fact that you don't choose to believe it has no bearing on the truth and the fact you'll pass is because you want to maintain your arrogant ignorance of the truth.
This debate has lost all interest to me now because all I hear from the opposing side is "it's the same, it's the same" without any reasoning whatsoever to support their view despite it being torn to shreds and basically being admitted by themselves that they'd actually prefer what the others have, it'd be comical if it wasn't tragic.
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