Liverpool chief Peter Moore has detailed how they've built up their recruitment team.
Moore, speaking at the World Football Summit in Madrid, gave an in-depth analysis on how the club has combined data and analysis with traditional scouting.
There is a merging of data and the experienced eye - the analogue and digital coming together," Moore told those in attendance at the summit.
We use applied science and technology to analyse players to create the best chance to win. From an analogue way, we look at the player and assess what they are about, both on and off the pitch. And we apply science.
We have four PhDs who are part of our club and we have a director of sports science, who is also a PhD and they look at data.
It is that combination, that amalgamation of an experienced eye - of looking at an athlete - combined with data, with psychological outputs, to see the person as a good player for Liverpool and also a good human being in the locker room.
Being a good person that happens to be a good football player is what you need to be for Liverpool Football Club. When I look at our squad, knowing most of the players, they fit that bill."
