The ex-Liverpool staffer, who between 2012 and 2023 worked to implement data analysis into the club’s transfer policy, continued: “It would be very churlish of me to say, ‘It’s terrible that Jurgen had his choice’, when in the past Jurgen had been persuaded by me and my colleagues of a different choice. And it was still the case that we signed good players – in Nunez’s case, one of the best young strikers in Europe.”