The Story of Liverpool's Analytics Revolution
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Josh Williams to explore the role that data has played in Liverpool’s revolution under owners FSG and to think about what the future of the club looks like from a data POV.
How much of the success of the last decade doesn’t come without FSG’s purchase of Liverpool?
When FSG arrived at the club, what were their intentions with regards using data?
Why is Michael Edwards so pivotal of a figure in this history?
How will Liverpool use data when appointing a new manager?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I often am for my good pal and producer Mike Timmer and Mike. |
| 0:15.3 | How are you this fine day? |
| 0:16.4 | I am doing good, John. |
| 0:17.5 | We're heading into the home stretch of this season and a lot of interesting |
| 0:22.0 | storylines, a lot of title races. So a lot to be excited about. Yeah, absolutely. And one of those |
| 0:27.1 | title races is the Premier League title race, which is, well, indirectly the topic of our episode |
| 0:32.6 | today because we have Josh Williams joining us today. Now, Josh has been on a previous episode to talk |
| 0:38.6 | about Liverpool. We talked to him about Liverpool again. He has just written a book called |
| 0:42.8 | Data Game, which is all about the way the data played a really important role in the last |
| 0:47.9 | decade of Liverpool's title successes. Now, although Josh does focus on Liverpool in particular, |
| 0:53.9 | this book has been written with all |
| 0:55.4 | fans of football in mind. And a lot of the concepts and ideas that we talk about here can be |
| 1:00.2 | applied to football clubs around the world. So I do recommend that you get hold of this book |
| 1:04.7 | and have a read of it. Now, Mike, you have just listened to the conversation between me and |
| 1:09.1 | Josh. What stuck out for you? Now, like you said, John, all these concepts apply to all fans of football and not just Liverpool, |
| 1:15.2 | but I do think it's fitting that you and Josh talked about Liverpool and how data played a huge |
| 1:21.5 | part in them building their success. With Juergen Klopp, leaving the club at the end of this season, |
| 1:27.1 | it's almost like a |
| 1:28.3 | bookend to all their successes and how they were able to achieve so much using data in their |
| 1:34.2 | recruitment, in their philosophy. And I think we can kind of look at this conversation as the |
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