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I'm confused is all & it seems I'm not the only one. You want Sheaf to be a similar player to Makelele & a similar player to Kroos even though those 2 play(ed) completely different roles to one another. It's fine, you've explained it better here, you just don't like his style of player, fair...

Madness. As if Makelele or Kroos are remotely similar roles either yet poor old Sheaf is expected to be a combination of the 2 at 22 years old playing in the 2nd tier for the first time ever 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ok. I still don't know how 'fair' or truly reflective it will be but then I don't fully understand Glicko systems either. Be interested to see how it pans out. 👍🏻

I might do the analysis some time for my own interests but you'll probably change the argument again so little point sharing.

These guys that actually handle recruitment for a number of clubs obviously don't understand either... I'll let them know to hit you up on here so you can put them right with your expertise.

This whole thread was all about Matty James until you used it as a thread to slate Sheaf with your nonsense. The fact that you misunderstand player roles so much made me think you probably wouldn't rate a player like James because he's not known for the spectacular either.

I assume you're dead against the Matty James signing too?

Sheaf was the best at his role in League One & a perfect fit for us. Signing him for such a low fee when his midfield partner Ben Whiteman is 2 years older & looks like costing £2-3m should be viewed as a major coup in anyone's books. Anyway, Matty James...

Yep. Kroos: Forward Passes: 27.8% Sheaf: Forward Passes: 29.7% Turns out Toni Kroos is just a poor man's Sammy Clingan, who knew?

It'd be really awkward if I showed you that Sheaf plays higher % of his passes forward than Kroos wouldn't it...?

Agreed, great signing.

Totally agree with all that except you've claimed certain things as fact that quite demonstrably aren't true.

He doesn't understand that

Prove that can you?

£750k for Sheaf if true would be an absolute coup

Help us to the title?

Hmmm, not sure about that. Wouldn't it be better to weight it or omit players playing very few minutes? As we are one of the weaker teams we are likely to lose a lot of games so there is a chance players making short cameos in wins will score unfairly highly. For example, with the 1500...

From what's shown so far I have a few queries; So the player is rated for that match regardless of how many minutes he plays in & regardless of the context of that game during their time on the pitch? Real world example taking the Nottingham Forest game: Godden is withdrawn after 56mins...

And Walsh & McFadzean on their podcast which is a good listen.