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@nonewthing

Nov 22

For many years, I thought not having access to WyScout was a limitation on my dreams to become the best scout around. I made do with maximizing what I could from comps and glimpses.

This is the unknown story of how I turned my disadvantage into a breakthrough career 🧵/

In 2020, I was rustling with ambition and energy.

I had read everything I could find on football, from Spielverlagerung articles to Stop Bunching blogposts to StatsBomb pieces. I had gained a marvelous technical background.

I understood the theory, I knew football—on paper.

But I had one problem: turning theory into actionable insight by watching games and players.

I was in university. I couldn’t watch every game live. There wasn’t even access to most leagues beyond the top ones. I needed a way to watch players beyond those.

There were no options.

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@nonewthing

Dec 17, 2024

Since you guys like to be reminded

—I was the first to sound the alarms on INEOS with detailed explanation. I remember United tacticos trying to defend them because of hope & big names. My insight goes beyond players.

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—I announced Arne Slot as a T3 coach in the league via his presence before any game was played and a worthy rival to Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola. My insight goes beyond ordinary analysis.

I don't do too many predictions anymore because they have served their usefulness as a tool for me, but these are two of the major unfolding narratives in the EPL covered above.

Now, onto the real deal, football insight.

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@nonewthing

Dec 16, 2024

Henry's narrative that Arsenal are trying to not lose the title while Liverpool are attacking it is wrong.

It is a narrative that assumes player quality = manager intentions, which is one of the common fundamental errors of team analysis.

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Fans and analysts too often give overwhelming responsibility to the manager for player decisions, quality and luck.

The other argument is that coaches ‘build’ teams and ‘buy’ players so they must yet hold some responsibility for the kind of team they have.

This is also a fundamentally flawed argument.

Coaches, no matter how powerful in modern football, rarely get full say in signings. There is, usually, a transfer committee where interests between the coaching staff, executive management and financial officiers are balanced.

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@nonewthing

Oct 3, 2024

This is old wisdom but if you wanna fix an addiction, you've got to get into a virtuous cycle.

Find something or a few things that capture your mind and fixate on them. As @visakanv would put it, focus on what you want to see more of.

Same advice from the Christian faith.

“Conformed” is the Greek word “Suschēmatizō”. It generally means to fashion oneself according to another's pattern or likeness. It means to copy.

The word for “World” there is not “Kosmos” but “Aion”. It means an age and a period.

“Transformed” is “Metamorphoō” which is to change one's form, to transfigure.

Suschēmatizō refers to an out-to-in process (to copy another)

Metamorphoō refers to an in-to-out process (to reveal an inward nature)

“Renewing” is “Anakainōsis” which means a renovation.

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@nonewthing

Sep 15, 2024

https://twitter.com/helixafc/status/1835130490019357169

Oh I don't really care for preservation as proof of authentication. Whatever is preserved could have been wrong from the beginning!

But even if we go along with that, well, there are problems. Perfect preservation is historically untrue.

https://twitter.com/helixafc/status/1835130490019357169

There are too many bad arguments. Perfect preservation when you are relying on documentation by memory is obviously not even possible (unless Allah somehow miraculously made it so).

Then we have various extant manuscripts that doesn't align with the standard Uthman code.

If you claim that all of this is from God, then even slight variations in style, pronunciation, punctuations, much less entire words are necessarily lethal to the claim of divinity. It shows that human error & interference was possible at least in documentation and transmission.

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@nonewthing

Sep 5, 2024

This is all the difference between Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta.

Pep adapts his game model to his player's qualities, especially the forwards. Mikel uses Vieira and Martinelli in the same way as Bukayo Saka. Talent maximization is not completely there, yet.

Although, there's something to be said about the fact that the only big distances runner Arsenal have is Gabriel Martinelli, so that's a good argument for not tweaking the game model enough to suit him.

However, he's a regular & you're meant to get the best out of your regulars.

Part of it is also the fact that Martinelli doesn't have Jesus, a frequent rotator, available. This is why I still don't blame Mikel Arteta much. Because everything can be explained.

For me, however, what cannot be explained is Vieira playing like Bukayo in a friendly

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