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Men In Blazers

Digging Through Analytics To Spot Talent: Running The Game with Ian Graham

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers | Wondery

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football, Soccer, Mib

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Rog is joined by Ludonautics founder and CEO Dr. Ian Graham to discuss the rise of using analytics to identify football talent across the globe, building the first in-house analytics team in the Premier League with Liverpool in 2012, working with Jurgen Klopp to help spot undervalued players in the market and his quite magnificent book, “How To Win The Premier League.”

“Running the Game” is a series from Men in Blazers where we speak to the brightest minds working behind-the-scenes at some of the biggest clubs in the world. We go deep on the business of football, boardroom strategy and culture to learn all it takes to run an elite football club today. 



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1:02.8

You can be a sliding doors, alt history of Liverpool Football Club, that I kind of am fascinated by.

1:08.7

I recently met Everton's old director of football

1:12.5

who said that they were this close to signing Robertson,

1:16.7

but we swooped in there at the last minute.

1:19.9

Oh my God.

1:20.8

By the way, the years of therapy I've had to experience

1:23.7

after witnessing Andy Robertson's shittouse Mattee.

1:28.0

I should send that ex-director football, the bills.

1:36.0

It's Roger.

1:37.2

Welcome back to our series running the game

1:39.5

designed to delve deep inside football

1:41.9

to understand how decisions are being made behind closed doors.

1:45.8

And today, we will go deep on data because, well, ever since Moneyball told the story of how

1:51.6

our friend Billy Bean upended baseball by using metrics and analysis to challenge consensus

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