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Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed — Part 3

Jun 15, 2026

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14 min read

Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed — Part 3

The big-club spending, finally graded — Napoli, Juventus, Milan, Inter and the rest (Part 3 of 3)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed — Part 2

Jun 8, 2026

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7 min read

Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed — Part 2

More wins, more misses, and a few Scottish Premiership ghosts I can't explain (Part 2 of 3)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed

Jun 1, 2026

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12 min read

Was I Right? Last Summer's Serie A Moves, Reviewed

Revisiting the calls I made last summer — the wins, the misses, and the ones that still need time (Part 1 of 3)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

+1

Peak velocity is not a metric

Apr 6, 2026

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11 min read

Peak velocity is not a metric

(or: I spent three weeks building a pipeline to prove that a number every tracking company sells you is mostly useless)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

+1

Which leagues actually produce successful transfers?

Mar 23, 2026

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9 min read

Which leagues actually produce successful transfers?

(or: someone on a podcast said someone should do this, so I did)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

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Finding Juventus' missing midfielder

Mar 16, 2026

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20 min read

Finding Juventus' missing midfielder

(or: how I spent two weeks building pipelines so I could talk about midfielders on X)

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Projects

Three Seconds Before the Pass

Mar 9, 2026

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12 min read

Three Seconds Before the Pass

A tracking data framework for quantifying off-ball runs and space creation — applied to the FIFA World Cup 2022

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Projects

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Italy Doesn't Cross Much. But When It Does, It Hurts.

Mar 4, 2026

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5 min read

Italy Doesn't Cross Much. But When It Does, It Hurts.

I thought Serie A was a crossing wasteland. The data says I was dead wrong.

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Transfer

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Simple vs. Complex:

Feb 23, 2026

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6 min read

Simple vs. Complex:

Testing Two Proxies for Dribbling From a Standstill

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano
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