Manchester United made a high-profile signing last week, although the club's new arrival drifted under the radar in comparison to transfers for the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Jadon Sancho.
Rather than performing on the pitch at Old Trafford, Dominic Jordan will head up a new department for United as Director of Data Science.
It is a welcome addition to the team behind the scenes at United, with rival institutions such as Liverpool and Manchester City making strides in the world of data over the course of the past decade. “There is so much potential for data science to benefit the club," said Jordan upon his appointment, "from assisting with player recruitment, automatically analysing patterns of play right through to using computer
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