A former Liverpool data guru has revealed that Brendan Rodgers was reluctant to embrace a numbers-led approach to transfers in his early days at Anfield.
The current Celtic boss arrived at Anfield in the summer of 2012, within weeks of Dr Ian Graham, who was the club's director of research for 11 years.
He has released a new book called 'How to win the Premier League: Inside football's data revolution'. In it, he explains the methods behind using data to trawl and identify potential transfer targets.
And he shares how Rodgers subscribed to a more traditional approach, while admitting the data heads had yet to prove their worth in the transfer market after getting started on Merseyside. "When I started at Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers was the manager.