Quote Originally Posted by stokearab View Post
I can tell you definitely Spanish clubs don't sign players off data first. They use available data only after identifying the player and watching him. United seem to have been doing it the other way round and at times it looks to me like we have signed a player without scouting reports, so probably based on video and AGENT recommendation only. See where that has got us with certain players.

Call me a luddite aye but I like to see a player over 5 or 6 games before forming an opinion as to how he's going to fit into the way the team plays.
The point in making is you don't know we don't do that. It may 'seem' like that and, who knows, you may be right.