How Man City renewed their roster from a database of 650,000 players

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A BBC Sport report had privileged access to Manchester City's data department, a group that has played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the squad over the last 18 months.

A reconstrução: the starting point

It was during this period that City faced the need to renew a squad which had dominated English football in previous years, but it went through a cycle of transition.

What a BBC Sport has revealed

The internal access made it possible to show how, in practice, the team responsible for analysing City data worked. e matter presented the department as a central component of the reconstruction process i.e., the choices made during this 18-month period had an analytical impact, and not just from the point of view of the technical or sports directorate.

Value o context: Manchester City is one of the pioneering clubs in intensive use of data in English football, and a model observatory-club with multidisciplinary structures supporting soccer as a reference point between teams but rich from the Premier League.

Where City is now

There is no dated timetable, but the 18-month record indicates that the most critical phase of reconstruction was in an advanced stage of maturation.

This is the first time this has happened.