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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 5h

Special guest speakers have been around basically as long as coaches have, people just like to troll anyone they perceive as their enemy

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 8h

Being so average with so much usage 😶

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 12h

Part two of re-writing strikers, which includes my review of striker moves this past window and a look ahead at good targets to watch, is now up! Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some formulas to go fix..
www.cannonstats.com/p/adam-rewri...

ADAM rewrites striker history, part 2

We dive back into the world of bagsmen

www.cannonstats.com

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 13h

In writing about striker transfer history I was reminded that the year Ekitike moved to PSG, they also signed both Kolo Muani and Ramos. Now he moves to Liverpool and they sign Isak. Seems like bad timing

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 14h

something about the way I wrote this headline is giving me early 2000s The Rock

a man wearing sunglasses says " finally finally the rock has come back home ... "

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses says " finally finally the rock has come back home ... "

media.tenor.com

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 14h

I've made many drives from Wyoming to Minnesota and vice versa and one of my mottos is that I've literally never been happy to be arriving in Bismarck

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 14h

Draw a relatively north-south ish line that goes up through Rapid City and Dickinson/Willison ND or eastern MT and that combined NE/CO/WY/Dakotas area is just pure unadulterated torture

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Cannon Stats @cannonstats.com · 14h

Finally, ADAM rewrites striker history www.cannonstats.com/p/finally-ad...

Finally, ADAM rewrites striker history

The final chapter in our long saga

www.cannonstats.com

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 14h

One great thing about Arteta is he’s able to simultaneously piss of “yer da” fans who find his commitment to things like “motivation” and “team-building” cringe while also angering people who love “progressive football” and insist he’s a Spanish Tony Pulis

While out achieving most of their coaches

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 16h

🔺 Clear code words
🔺 Hand signals
🔺 ‘Train hard, fight easy’

After Mikel Arteta revealed he invited the RAF to help Arsenal improve their communication, @dansheldon.bsky.social spoke to former fighter pilots to find out what they might have learnt ⤵️

What Arsenal can learn from the Red Arrows: Code words, hand signals, ‘train hard, fight easy’

Mikel Arteta is the latest example of a leadership figure in sport looking to the British armed forces for new ways to seek improvements

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

👀

very unfriendly to some narratives out there

Martin Eastwood @martineastwood.co.uk · 1d

Here's how the Premier League table really looks according to Massey Ratings, which account for strength of schedule.

📈 Arsenal (+1.5) & Man City (+1.3) are clear strongest overall
😬 Man Utd (-0.2) rank in the bottom half
📉 West Ham & Forest (-1.2) are worst teams by far

Massey Ratings for the English Premier League

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

I think it’s the kind of thing needed to turn a club like United around, and exactly where Amorim and Ten Hag have been so short!

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

My best attempt at a guess is that Arteta is one of the strongest culture-builders we've seen run a football club in the modern era. That's been a consistent note since his first day on the job, that connection and relationships are very big with him. Just a guess!

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Cole’s just preparing for his next goalless streak. I’ll be there

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Suffice to say I don't think he plans to do a Neuer with Raya. Strong argument that hanging on to Neuer for too long has really cost Bayern a couple of times

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

I actually think this is a pretty interesting tact by Arsenal, fwiw. Contract length has long been a way clubs really shoot themselves in the foot (Auba? Özil?) but with older players this can be a sort of best-of-both-worlds way to maintain control, continuity, leadership and flexibility at once

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Maybe, but as people who liked to criticize last summer's business would say...can't plan for that 😉

end of the day Arteta seems to find the setup with him and Eze off the left to be useful, wouldn't shock me to see more of it even when fully fit. Arteta likes him a lot and people forget that

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Definitely nowhere near Raya, but people around the time of the extension talked about him like he would never play

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Right, similar to the equation of paying a guy like Nelson/Nketiah the 100k wage on an extension vs buying someone new

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

To be fair I think Trossard has already proven a lot of people wrong with regard to his relative level of worth to the squad and we're only in the first week October

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Give him a wage more representative of his performance without assuming nothing will change three years from now, it's still a pretty big assumption

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Give him a wage more representative of his performance without assuming nothing will change three years from now, it's still a pretty big assumption

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Yeah there's been some concern about making players less marketable (namely Trossard) but there are certainly cases where you'd rather have the player than the £15m or whatever you may fetch in the market anyway.

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

So that makes two Arsenal players who have received higher pay without additional term, not an established industry practice but clearly something the leadership group are integrating going forward in cases where talent/performance justifies a raise but age prohibits an extension

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

The ADAM formula revisits striker history at long last! Part 1 tackles Osimhen, Isak, Ollie, Rhian Brewster, and that's just the start
www.cannonstats.com/p/finally-ad...

Finally, ADAM rewrites striker history

The final chapter in our long saga

www.cannonstats.com

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 3d

Probably backed Maddison initially and want to be right (but also wanting more like a dribbly boi 10)

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