![]() ![]() ![]() With the assistant manager’s faith in goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann, goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes moved back to his home country as he was signed by SC Internacional for £1m. In terms of players sold, Tom Cleverley didn’t seem to be in Bryan Klug’s plans as he secured an early summer transfer to Leicester City for just shy of £10m. The Columbian international brought experience as well as friendly competition to Daryl Janmaat, Watford’s alternative starting right-back option. Santiago Arias was the second big-money signing for The Hornets, taking place during Deadline Day of the January transfer window. The first notable signing was Joe Rodon – a home-grown centre back that started in most Premier League games for Watford this season. This was to ensure that both the high and low-quality assistant manager had equal opportunity to manage a team with slightly more room to manoeuvre in areas such as their starting eleven and playing style. According to the season preview, a middle to lower-table Premier League team, a relatively injury-free squad, and a comparatively less demanding club culture. Watford was the club chosen to run the two simulations. ![]() Should the club perform below expectations, it’s still the manager’s position (myself) that will be in jeopardy. BoOne thing to bear in mind is that this experiment merely aims to discover the outcome of delegating all the responsibilities to the assistant manager. The same football club was used, but each run by a different calibre assistant manager. In order to gain a better understanding on the value and impact of assistant managers within the game, I decided to run two separate FM20 experiments. ![]()
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