Jordan Rideout

The president of Como 1907, Mirwan Suwarso, recently spoke on @TheAthleticFC about the decisive influence Cesc Fàbregas has on player recruitment. 👇 "Sometimes we had a Data Player. According to our data, the guy wasn’t good enough. But Cesc said, no, no — this is because he’s playing differently. With us he will play like this, this and this… and I can prove the data will be wrong. It will not be what the data says." "And he has proven that with 2 players, if not more. One I remember is Lucas Da Cunha. He was a player that initially was a winger. He moved him into defensive midfielder. We bought him for 250.000 and we are now having offers for 15 million. That's all down to Cesc." Sometimes the data looks bad — not because the player isn’t good, but because they’re in the wrong role or context. This is why it’s so important to have people in your club who understands the game and can see a player’s real value, even when he’s being used in the wrong role. Those are the types of players you can get for very little and eventually sell for a big fee.