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"We are not under the dictatorship of data": how the TFC tries to recruit smart (and cheap)

2022-08-03T15:41:47.557Z


DECRYPTION – The Toulouse promoter relies on a clever mix of data and experience to pull off some nice moves in the summer transfer window.


Kjetil Haug, Zakaria Aboukhlal, Thijs Dallinga… These names mean nothing to the general public, and even to some football fans, and yet they are three of Toulouse Football Club's recruits this summer.

A trio made up of a goalkeeper and two attackers, from Norway and the Netherlands.

Unknown symbols of clever recruitment and "made in US" operated by the Haut-Garonne club since its acquisition, in 2020, by the American investment fund RedBird Capital Partners.

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In Toulouse, we are not changing a method that has proven itself with the use of data.

Under the direction of the president, Damien Comolli, passed by Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool in various positions, and fond of data and statistics for a long time, the “Téfécé” gave in to this new fashion.

Widely used in the United States, "data" is at the heart of the strategy of the ambitious promoter.

To the point of giving the offices of the Stadium the air of start-ups.

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Source: lefigaro

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