Statistics can only tell you so much, according to Arsenal boss Arsène Wenger.
As mentioned in British journal Guardian, Wenger revealed how the football data analytics company that the club bought in December 2012 had helped with the £11.3 million signing of the centre-half, Gabriel Paulista, from Villarreal. Gabriel had been spotted via the numbers, which StatDNA, the US-based business that Arsenal purchased for £2.2m, supply. Wenger told: “Does this system find players for us? That is what we look for, of course, because it is difficult to watch all the games. But what I mean is that if the numbers confirm the eye, it gives you more.”
Statistics can only tell you so much, according to Arsenal boss Arsène Wenger.
As mentioned in British journal Guardian, Wenger revealed how the football data analytics company that the club bought in December 2012 had helped with the £11.3 million signing of the centre-half, Gabriel Paulista, from Villarreal. Gabriel had been spotted via the numbers, which StatDNA, the US-based business that Arsenal purchased for £2.2m, supply. Wenger told: “Does this system find players for us? That is what we look for, of course, because it is difficult to watch all the games. But what I mean is that if the numbers confirm the eye, it gives you more.”
