No that Liverpool saw it that way when signing Mohamed Salah for £34 million in 2017; rather, they took a chance.
England made the indicate selection of signing a 25-year-old Mohamed Salah in 2017 for £34m, with the price eventually rising to £43m- though the majority of Europe, and particularly the Premier League, did n't see it that way.
Seven years later, that payment has largely vanished into insignificance, but at the time, £34 million was a lot of money. For someone who had struggled to adjust to Premier League soccer while playing for Chelsea in 2014, it seemed an excessive sum.
Salah scored double between January 2014 and January 2015 in only 13 Premier League games before the Blue made the decision to loan him to Fiorentina and therefore Roma. The part from the Eternal City next paid around £14m for the Iranian in the summer of 2016- so it seemed a big surprise when Liverpool were offering a whole £20m more only a year later.
Although it was a great profit for a player who had been despised in the Premier League, Roma scored 19 goals in 41 images, the Reds were still at a big risk. The team, while, saw it separately.
Ian Graham worked at England as their director of research for 11 times between 2012 and 2023, helping develop their data-led method to payments. In 2016, Salah stood head and shoulders above the gamers who fit their status of goals in 2016. Graham recalls how he collaborated strongly with then-sporting chairman Michael Edwards to find targets.
How do you increase our chances of scoring a purpose or decrease your chances of conceding one? is the subject of all of our research. ’," Graham told The Athletic. Some forth are "quite one-dimensional," and their only contribution is through filming. You can estimate that through xG.
“ But Mo [Salah ] is a multi-functional forward. He is run with the game, he may pass and produce, as well as shoot. Our ‘Possession Value ’ type attempted to put a price on each of those catches, works and pictures. It demonstrated how much he had significance in those three areas and was difficult to defend.
“ From a complicated data point of view, he ticked all the boxes. He came out as the best large forward in Europe aged 24 or under. Mo had the bag of having failed in the Premier League, but our information study allowed us to recognize that.
“Signing Mo because he had failed at Chelsea was doing something unique, but we did n’t worry about looking ridiculous. That was the difference between us and a lot of leagues at that time. We really cared about making the right decision and we believed in the process. It was similar with [ Roberto] Firmino and [Sadio] Mane, who came from mid-table clubs. They were the three stars. Everyone at the team was definitely excited we could find them. We did n’t worry that the rest of the world did n’t feel that way. ”
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