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Your Club's Coach Might be Sacrificing Talent for Stylistic or Tactical Fit
An essay on the style-talent tensions that manifest when building a team.
Nov 10, 2025
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Luqman Kabange
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Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections
This piece shows how a lightweight, falsifiable scouting framework flagged Álvaro Fernández Carreras early and held up through his 2025 jump to Real…
Nov 3, 2025
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Joel A. Adejola
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What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?
What happens if you got outsiders in the sporting world yet experts in their own fields thinking about sport at large?
Oct 31, 2025
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Joel A. Adejola
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Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers
Notes from Bayern vs Chelsea - September 2025 in the Champions League
Oct 31, 2025
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Joel A. Adejola
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Epistemic Certainty in Sports
This essay poses a hypothetical and offers solution-frames to discuss epistemic certainty in scouting and recruitment.
Jul 12, 2025
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Joel A. Adejola
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Justified True Belief
Is anything consequential in sports?
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Using Operational Research to Explain Football Analysis
This essay compares operational research and football analysis to derive practical insights applicable to both fields.
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New Beginnings: Luqman A. Kabange
Meet me, the new guy. Who am I? Why am I here? What to expect? My goals and principles.
Nov 18, 2024
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Luqman Kabange
Precision Play: Why Mechanics Matter
This essay argues that mechanics is the single most important predictor of skill transfer between footballing environments – and suggests a roadmap to…
Oct 7, 2024
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How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players
And why those who can run and carry aggression into subsequent duels are in high-demand.
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There Are No Superstars Left, Only Entertainers
and it's obscuring the beautiful game.
Sep 27, 2024
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Projections: Mali U-17's Sékou Koné
Mali U-17's Sekou Kone has joined Manchester United from Guidars FC. The writer discusses their 9-month old projection on the starlet who, at that time…
Aug 31, 2024
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