Graham was a Tottenham adviser from 2007 to 2012, but “they never really wanted to make more,” in the data, while “Liverpool was the first team to have a local analysis department.
He was in Liverpool from 2012 to 2023 and was a key part of the Moneyball strategy – The Bysbol Akland Athletics statistical style, which he used in the 1990s to receive players – the owners of Liverpool’s FENWA Sports Group (FSG) received from the club.
“In fact, the exercise is a concept, ‘We can get more value for money in our structure? Can we get more results for any pound? Because if we can, it means we can compete with clubs that have more budget than us’
“We started with about seven or eight different leagues. Until I left, we may have received data from about 60 different leagues to really understand what the players can do on the pitch,” he said.
Graham worked under former Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards, who left the club in 2022 before returning to FSG in
The couple were part of a transportation committee with Liverpool manager “Across a consensus decision on the best players to sign.
Liverpool had appointed Klopp as director in October 2015 and were ready to participate in the use of data in employment, unlike Brendan Rodgers, who was his predecessor.
“Previously, we had a strong debate with Brendan about which players sign them and the two differences were our ideas about which players will improve Liverpool is very different from Brend’s ideas,” Graham said.
“Brendan, we understand, they put a big premium on the Premier League experience when we felt that these players are often high in the market and other market players, such as Mosel Salah and Roberto Firmino, were valuable.
Graham explained that Rodgers “by a prediction that the player he wants to sign is the only solution to the post” and “it is very difficult to convince.
In Klopp, Graham said they had found “lost pieces” and in some cases “a manager who seemed to have seen what the data had seen.
“He’s very happy that he thanks us for our proposals to stop some of the less rational signatures, which led to a big saying, but, in a previous interview, this can be a good process to sign players,” he said.