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"Toutefois, la réalité est bien différente. Nous vivons une telle explosion du revenu des clubs et un tel apport de cash que les indemnités de transfert deviennent irrationnelles. Désormais, le prix d'un transfert est fixé par l'acheteur. Il le fixe en fonction de son budget. Quand Manchester City achète De Bruyne à Wolfsburg pour 80 millions d'euros, Manchester City  possède toutes les stats sur lui. Le club sait exactement ce que le joueur va lui amener ou pas. Il sait ce qui manque dans l'équipe."

""Every team that was dominating in the league or in Europe had a core of home players. If you are talking about Manchester United, they were always a big club, but suddenly there was the Neville brothers, [Paul] Scholes, [Nicky] Butt, [Keith] Gillespie, [David] Beckham, [Ryan] Giggs. That is the core ... the same with Barcelona, Milan. They add to the core but, without that... for me, the likes of Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain, they are not like those teams. They can do one season where they are doing well, then they are down, then they are up. It is the best when you have both."

"Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal defends accusations that his team played a long-ball style against West Ham by producing a dossier of statistics in a news conference. Speaking ahead of United's match against Burnley at Old Trafford on Wednesday, Van Gaal explained the reasons for his tactics at Upton Park by referring to a printed handout featuring diagrams and data, which was then distributed to the assembled journalists."

"Of course, Guardiola's system is not that that was prevalent in Britain in the early sixties. It is not the same as the system Ramsey reformed. His W-M is specifically a shape to be adopted when in possession. Out of possession, there is a reversion to a back four with Fernandinho sitting just in front of it and one or both of the free eights dropping in alongside him. But still, there is a moment after possession is lost before the back four can be re-formed. How would the shape cope against a side that broke quickly down the flanks or that kept wide men high up the pitch?"

"As revealed by Gaël Clichy on Tuesday, the new manager has banned his side from chomping on the Italian classic and has told his players if they are overweight they will not be allowed to train with the first team. It may seem harsh and deliveries to dressing rooms immediately after games are common across the country - just ask one former Arsenal player and Sir Alex Ferguson - but there is an obvious reason behind Guardiola's stringent policy."

"Manchester City déjouera-t-il les pronostics mercredi soir en se qualifiant pour la finale ? Car dans ce dernier carré, la faiblesse du championnat anglais, pourtant le plus riche et le plus cher du monde (de très loin), saute aux yeux tant il a du mal à glisser un de ses représentants au plus haut niveau de la compétition."

"Le taux d'utilisation est le pourcentage des possessions d'une équipe terminées, ou "utilisées", par un joueur. Une possession n'est pas aussi facile à définir dans le football qu'au basket, mais en utilisant les données détaillées des actions, on peut diviser un match en séries de chaînes de possession distinctes. Le dernier joueur de chaque chaîne est celui qui a "utilisé" la possession."

"ld Trafford se vide. Depuis le coup de sifflet final, seuls sont restés dans la tribune visiteurs les supporters de Manchester City. Sous le soleil de cette fin d'après-midi, ils chantent à la gloire de leur entraîneur : « Guardiola est chez nous ! Guardiola est chez nous ! »"

"he is suggesting a provocative line-u for the weekend. The formation he plans includes mathematical concepts, vectors, and pure solar energy. How Pep."

""And I think that, there's a lot of this happening in the game now, these Moneyball ideas about looking at statistics of players and bypassing the manager's thoughts, and I think it's wrong."

""To clarify, we share our data," Southgate said. "We don't always receive data, though. That's what we would like because it would help us work out a training schedule when they [the players] first come into camp. That can be a big help but we can't enforce it. That has to be an agreement - sharing - and at the moment some clubs are more comfortable with it than others. One of the dangers, I guess, is the perception of it being leaked.""