According to The Daily Mail, the Twenty First Group have deduced that Rodrigo Bentancur was the biggest bargain signing of the January transfer window.
Tottenham paid £20m to Juventus to snap up Bentancur on transfer deadline day last month (Football.London).
The midfielder, who won three Scudettos and two Copa Italia titles at Juventus, has made a promising start to life in North London, producing two excellent cameos off the bench against Brighton and Southampton.
Spurs fans will be hoping that those two performances will be a sign of things to come from the midfielder and they will certainly be encouraged by the numbers crunched by Twenty First Group.
The group have developed accurate modelling techniques to support many clubs around Europe in making strategic decisions, including on their operations in the transfer market.
They have deduced that Bentancur is the best value for money signing made by any Premier League club in January.
The group’s chief intelligence officer Omar Chaudhuri claimed told The Mail: “According to our player valuation model, Tottenham’s signing of Bentancur was the most undervalued deal of the window in the Premier League, reportedly costing around half of our €40m (£34M) valuation for the Juventus player.
“Acquiring a first-choice player from a Champions League last 16 team normally comes at a premium.”
Spurs Web Opinion
The Bentancur deal does represent good value for money but there is a lot more than just data that one needs to consider when assessing signings.
One can argue that qualitative analysis still takes precedence over quantitative analysis in football, which is why most club directors and managers use trusted scouts rather than just data scientists.
Conte and Paratici obviously feel that Bentancur has the attributes to be a key player in Tottenham’s system, and only time will tell how successful the signing proves to be.
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