Exciting. We must be aiming for innovation in data analytics. Makes sense too.Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:33 pm Interesting that we've bought Chris Howarth's data and analytics company, Insight Sport, as part of recruiting him and that they're likely to use it for all clubs in the Friedkin group.
The Athletic recently wrote that statsBomb is about to be purchased by Hudl (who own Wyscout amongst others) and there are concerns that big data analytics companies with hundreds of thousands of customers like these will be slow to move, and will struggle to keep up with the ever-evolving areas of focus in the stats performance industry.
Arsenal bought StatDNA 15 years ago to use internally, and it sounds like more of the larger clubs might now be looking to move away from licenses to the market leading providers, and instead purchasing>building>tailoring in-house, due to innovation concerns.
Small enough to be agile, but big enough (along with Roma) to be effective and hopefully provide us an edge.
