After the Liverpool team made history winning the Champions League title, a question is being posed that needs an answer: Do the biggest teams in Egypt have the potential of hiring a director of research?
To begin with, Ian Graham, joined Anfield from Decision Technology - a London-based business management consultant company - in 2012. He was appointed as director of research, a job unknown for footballers in Egypt.
Graham earned a doctorate in theoretical physics at Cambridge and built his own database that tracked the progress in more than 100,000 footballers from across the planet.
To explain his experiment in Liverpool, he worked as a consultant to Jurgen Klopp, who would listen to his advice, yet the final decision is his.
It is claimed that Mohamed Salah was recommended by Graham based on the strength of the data supplied by Graham.
Salah eventually signed for the Reds in the summer of 2017 for a then club record fee of 36.9 million pounds.
To make the example clear, he developed a computer program designed to add value to raw data of performance numbers provided by models.
This information was provided to Klopp since they first met in November 2015.
A 97-point Premier League season and a Champions League title holder suggest Liverpool director of research is operating at an exalted level.
The question is being addressed again: Do the biggest teams in Egypt have the potential of hiring a director of research?
Contributed by: Ashraf Ibrahim
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