This week we dive into the philosophical clash that may result between the ultimate barrier builder - Massimiliano Allegri - and the destroyer of all movable objects - Gleison Bremer. Can Bremer effectively join a squad that has become renowned for its lack of aggressiveness in defense? Is Allegri potentially going to change his style? How will this all work out? Join me and my guest Nicola Santolini to dissect this class in ideas!

Romelu Lukaku is heading back to Inter, so it had me thinking what sort of upgrade he'll bring to the Nerazzurri, and even deeper - how much of an upgrade is he over Lautaro and Edin Dzeko. As I explain my Monte Carlo methods to assess finishing, I am then fortunate to be joined by Enrique who has laid out an interesting and extremely useful method to analyze strikers beyond finishing. Spoiler alert, there are other methods to assess their skills beyond finishing!

After a few week hiatus, we're back with our deepest in depth interview yet! I'm joined by Davide (@undervalu) to discuss recruitment philosophy, organizational strategy, and how the importance of a plan is what can make analytics successful for a football club.

This week I come to you from Las Vegas, and we talk all thinks gambling! I'm fortunate to be joined by Kicks and Picks Podcast host and founder, Nick Dianni. Nick gives us a great introduction into football handicapping, how it differs from betting in American sports, and some interesting prop bets and season bets we can look at this summer.

Also I dive into some penalty taking trends, and why it may not make sense for a keeper to just randomly choose a direction to try and save the shot.

In this week's episode I am lucky to speak with Alberto Laucello who guides us through a growing in prominence and extremely valuable statistic - post shot expected goals. We discuss what it means, how we can assess shot stopping skill from it, and determine if certain players can get 'lucky' over a given year. Plus I take a deep dive into the relationship between wage bill and salary. Is it the end-all-be-all of table placement in Serie A?

In this episode I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with Chun Hang. Chun first caught my eye with his excellent and thorough scouting report on one of Serie A's best young wingbacks - Wilfried Singo - but the conversation flows much deeper than that. From discussing football and analytics in Malaysia, the work he has done to try and push analytics to the forefront in his home country, plus the required rigor to create in depth scouting reports, we touch on everything for this episode! Enjoy!!!

We made it to double digit episodes! This week I am lucky to be joined by Cliff Esmiol as we both go through our Season's best XI, discuss our methods, and see where we differ and where we are the same!

Welcome back to another episode in which we dissect potentially two Champions this year. One already crowned in AC Milan, and one that may be in a few days time - Roma.

Join me as I look at a few data points that suggest how everything clicked for Milan this year. Also I am fortunate to be joined by Steve from Chiesa di Totti to examine what Roma needs to do to get past Feyenoord in the UEFA Conference League final.