The group
Club oneTheir scaleTheir analystTheir format
Club twoAnother scaleAnother analystAnother format
Club threeAnother scaleNobodyA spreadsheet
Club fourAnother scaleAnother analystAnother format
AcademiesNo scale at allNobodyNothing
Players ownedHundreds
Players you can compareNone of them
For organizations

You own hundreds of players. You cannot compare any two of them.

Every club in the group reads its own squad, its own way, on its own scale. So the one asset the group actually has, all of that talent, cannot be seen as one thing by anybody.

One ruler
The whole point was the pool

You did not buy four clubs. You bought one talent pool. And it is in four pieces.

The reason to own more than one club is that a player can be developed at one, proven at another, and sold from a third. The pathway is the thesis.

And then it runs into the thing nobody says out loud: the clubs cannot talk to each other about players, because they do not share a language. One club's nine is another club's seven. One academy grades on a scale nobody else uses. One club has three analysts and one has a spreadsheet and one has nothing at all.

So the player moves when somebody remembers him, and not when he is ready. And the group's biggest asset is managed on the strength of who happened to be in the room.

The pool was always the point. Nobody has ever been able to see the whole of it at once.

What you get

Every club. Every academy. Every loan. One system.

The pool, on one ruler

The questions you have never been able to answer.

Is the kid ready?Not in somebody's opinion. Read against the man you were about to pay a fee for, on the same scale, today.
Where should he go?Not to the club that asked for him. To the club whose system actually suits him and whose coach actually develops his kind of player. That is a different answer, and it is usually a different club.
Is the loan working?Is he developing out there, or just playing? And is that environment doing anything for him at all?
Sell, keep, or movePriced. Against what he adds, what he costs, and how much time you still control.
And who is actually worth what?Because the group has been valuing players at four different clubs, in four different currencies, and calling it a portfolio.

The organisation was always the asset. This is the first time anyone has been able to look at all of it.

And the rule nobody plans for

Two of your clubs are on a path to the same competition.

And that is a rule. It does not care that nobody thought about it in August, and it does not care how much you have already invested in both.

The conflict is surfaced at the planning stage, while there is still a season in which to do something about it, rather than in the week the draw is made and the only options left are ugly.

Everything the group does that is governed is checked before it is done. That is the entire difference between owning a group and getting away with owning one.

The intelligence

Read anyone. Anywhere. On one scale.

You bought a pool. Now you can see it.

Every player you own, on one ruler, across every club and every country. The moves priced before you make them. And the rules checked while there is still time to act.

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