Rob Green

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2,203 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Rob Green’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Man United v Man City + underlying data buys · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

initially to get the players on board. voice-verified

So you're finding players and you're saying, So hold on a minute, we're we're trying to get results with guys that you are bringing in to say they're not quite there yet. voice-verified

Uh we're we you've as a senior pro, as players, you're expecting players to come in ready made, ready f fit to hit the ground running and saying, No, they're going to play, but they're a work in progress and voice-verified

You know, y you I remember said Poulter coming in at QPR and they spent a lot of money from him from uh from from Germany and he fit certain criteria apart from the eye test. voice-verified

And you said they're going he's just not very good at football. voice-verified

And he it it felt like that sort of voice-verified

risk that was being taken on players when the data wasn't quite there, the the the the parameters weren't quite set out yet. voice-verified

The it just hadn't quite fitted into how it was gonna work in each club. voice-verified

Now it's a very refined model and also voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

were brought in off the data model as well. voice-verified

So they know the process. voice-verified

They're already they're a product of it. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

So it it was it was very much sort of old hat gnarly old pros not accepting sort of this new way of coming in, but also the new way of coming in not really working a lot of the time. voice-verified

Well, that was my one bone of contention in there. voice-verified

It's uh it's it's kind of voice-verified

You c I'm not sure I know you write the criteria as you say, but having a thirty-seven year old in there might not be if I've played against him then then I think we we've got a lot of data against him on him. voice-verified

to Athleti is I mean the data on that is PSG are a better team without him. voice-verified

I don't I I'm not sure where that fits in. voice-verified

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