The forecasts that support the signing of Joselu by Espanyol

Espanyol has tied to one of the top scorers in LaLiga, Joselu Matowho ends contract with Alaves and that he will sign, barring cataclysm, for three seasons with the parakeet entity. It arrives a priori as complement of Raúl de Tomás, and in a team trained by Vicente Moreno. Circumstances that Artificial intelligence collates it –and the clubs themselves consult it– to estimate what their performance may be. The one that brings the technology of Olocipa company that applies AI to football, is flattering for the striker and for Espanyol.

In a projection to nine months view, that is, until the end of 2022, Joselu is ahead of 77 percent of the ‘nine’ who would best fit in Espanyol, which is already a lot considering that there is no discrimination based on cost, and the Galician striker will arrive free. In specific values, will improve his current goalscoring average, which is 0.21 per 90 minutes –that is, about one goal every five full games–, to go to 0.24 –one every four meetings–. Interestingly, it is estimated that he will score slightly less with his feet but will significantly increase his goals with his head (0.03 to 0.08 per 90′). AND you will get it with less shotswhich go from 2.07 to 1.96 per game.

The key for Joselu to be a good complement for Raúl de Tomás –and not his substitute– lies precisely in his ability to score headers, associate and assists that it will be able to give according to Artificial Intelligence, a section in which it also grows, from 0.03 for every 90 current minutes (two it has this season) to 0.05.

the only drawback

From the point of view of projections, The only drawback is his signing for Espanyolwhich has surely been valued by the sports management of Francisco Rufete, the general management that José María Durán still commanded and Chen Yansheng himself, president, before negotiating with his agents: the financial consideration.

Although it will arrive free, it is highly unlikely that the parakeet club will be able to do business with a future transfersince despite the fact that sportingly it will not only maintain but also improve its performance, its market value decreases in the next nine months from the current 5.1 million to 3.3 when 2022 endsaccording to Olocip.

It is evident that his 32 years recently completed play a fundamental role in this calculation that, however, in general terms long endorse its incorporation. Now it is only a matter of time, if nothing goes wrong, that it becomes official so that they begin to be fulfilled on the pitch.