27-09-2021, 09:40 AM
(26-09-2021, 03:31 PM)Wightblue Wrote: The Realist
Absolutely right about Brentford as a model apart from you omitting the fact (or perhaps didn’t realise) that their owner has put in £10Million a year for the last 10 years (£100 Million to date) !
It also will help if your owner is a true life long fan which Matthew Benham is.
Matthew Bentham is also extremely well educated with a degree in Physics from Oxford University and worked in finance finally becoming Vice President of The Bank of America. He left to join PremierBet where he refined analytics to predict the outcome of gambles. He left to form his own betting syndicate, SmartOdds, which was incredibly successful, it generated tens of millions for his investors and him.
He is very astute, at Brentford he has used his sport analytics experience to devise a new ‘recruitment paradigm’ nicknamed by the press Moneyball (after the Hollywood film about the Oakland As). Benham’s model tries to predict the likely outcome of low price purchases which can be sold on at a considerable profit.
Thus far Moneyball has yielded income for Brentford from Ollie Watkins £33 million, Said Benhamha £25million, Neal Maupay £ 18 million, Chris Mepham £12 million to name the most significant.
I heard him on TalkSport a month back talking to Simon Jordan about the perils and pitfalls of football club ownership, fantastic discussion by two owners who have been there, done it !
By all means hope that Pompey follow the Brentford model but expect us to do it on bugger all money, an owner who isn’t a life-long fan and who knows absolutely nothing about the game.
Pop back in a couple of years and let me know how it’s all working out !