Okay, tell me I'm not the only person who thought of the basketball player after reading the title of the thread. Peformance analyzing seems like nothing new to me. Its just a step ahead of traditonal scouting really. But if Clever Hans wants to use it, more power to him, and hopefully it does more good than anything else.
Ha! I can just see it: "Timmy, see here, you're out of position. As the play comes to you, you are running away from the ball..."
I Don't see how you will keep on place players like Miller, Richards and Ballouchy, to adapt Lee instruction they have to born again....
I think this is just another indication that this club is not "MLS as usual." Yeah, it's not perfect, but everything Red Bull has done to this team is moving it away from the "casual sport" attitude of the old MLS to the European "serious business" model. And I love it. We have the first team that is taking this sport as serious as a heart attack.