according to<\/a> Mike Keegan from the Daily Mail, United are looking to bring in an important member of Mercedes’ staff.<\/p>\nA new report states that United are currently progressing in talks with Michael Sansoni, who works as a senior performance simulation engineer for the eight-time world constructors’ champions.<\/p>\n
Sansoni is tasked with ensuring George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have a car which can produce the best performance on the track and it’s believed United feel as though he can make a seamless transition from F1 to football.<\/p>\n
He graduated from Southampton with a BEng Aeronautics and Astronautics and it’s said the switch is being labelled a “move between the family”.<\/p>\n
Data science has proved to be a pivotal tool in sports on the whole and in football it has been fundamental for the success enjoyed by the likes of Brighton and Brentford.<\/p>\n
But Ratcliffe feels as though United are still lagging behind in that department and even admitted as much during a wide-ranging interview with the United We Stand fanzine back in December.<\/p>\n
“Until we’re are as good as anyone in the world, then it’s not good enough for Manchester United,” Ratcliffe said.<\/p>\n
“We must have the best recruitment in the world. Data analysis comes alongside recruitment. It doesn’t really exist here. We’re still in the last century on data analysis here.<\/p>\n
“There’s immense amount of useful data that we can get from data analysis and we’re in the ‘very poor’ bracket with data analysis here. These things don’t happen overnight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are in advanced negotiations over making a key signing from a Formula One team, reports claim.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[11604,4199,707,11605,4200,5467,11603,98,11606,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-17299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-dave-brailsford","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula-one-team","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-ineos","14":"tag-jim-ratcliffe","15":"tag-manchester-united","16":"tag-michael-sansoni","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114332310254125104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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