Unbelievable from Bartomeu! Well done
I would applaud even if it were just a PR stunt
If anything the PR stunt was all the other clubs that offered help and never did anything.
Also this has not been highlighted by the club bar the initial offer of help so not much in way of PR stunt.
This link from our official site provides more information on it.
Hidden under a lot of corporate mumbo jumbo I think it shows our club's determination to invest heavier and explore a lot more in the area of data analytics and data science, which is extremely laudable. I can not emphasize enough how important data science has become and how important it will impact the sports industry. It is very encouraging to see our club going in the right direction in that regard and aspiring to establish itself as an industry/market leader.
I hope we mean serious business in data science, what I hope this will not be is just another bureaucratic scheme/embellished advertisement disguised to attract more sponsors.
So, they are announcing their idea to get an edge over others to entire world?
I thought one is supposed to create something first, try to implement it. See if it works. But that's just me.
Can we blame Barto all that much for this season though?
There was no way he was going to get rid of Lucho after the end of last season and he gave both Lucho and Robert massive amounts of transfer money to improve the squad.
To me this season falls down to Lucho who has tremendously failed on all accounts to play effective football + motivate the team and Robert who wasted the entire transfer fund (minus Umtiti) on terrible transfers.