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I am Joe Devine. And today, I'm joined by Alex Stewart. Hello, Alex. Hello, he's busy looking at something. Also, Alex and I had in the studio today, the studio, the office, Alex and I had in the office come studio today. Nikos Overhaul, who works for Statsbom as the lead technical scout.

Now, what does that mean? I don't quite know. But we did ask him about it, and he did explain

it fairly well. Statsbom are a company that offer, what do they offer, Alex?

They offer data services and...

What are you smiling at?

Just having a smile?

Yeah. So they offer...

I like to try and put Alex off when he's talking.

They offer data services, data visualization, the explanation thereof, they assist with recruitment of players, managers.

For football clubs? For football clubs. Correct. Yes. So from 1 to 10, they do all those things? Absolutely all of those things. Yeah, okay. Well, if you don't know what that means from our explanation, don't worry, because Nikos is going to explain it over the next hour. And also, you will note that there are some questions that he can't answer because he's not allowed to, which are the

ones that I'm really interested in. I want to know that list of coaches that the stats

bond people have identified as potentially the next, you know, the risks for mid-level clubs

to take. I'd love to see that list. But anyway, we can't. But there are other interesting

tip bits that come from this episode, unrelated to the questions that Nicos can't answer for

obvious reasons. What was your favourite bit of the episode, Alex? I was tantalised by the conversation

around Pocitino and whether he would or would not have been a risk for clubs and how

that sort of works out and balancing, taking a chance on somebody who might be cheap

versus a set of expectations around somebody who is provably good but costs a lot more

that kind of thing.

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