Football Operations · Recruitment · Club-Building
I help football
clubs win matches
before kickoff.
I’m Emre Akbas. I am all about football operations, recruitment strategy and the systems behind clubs that overperform. The work that happens long before kickoff.
Selected pieces
All pieces →The approach
Three convictions about how clubs actually win.
Systems over saviours
Clubs that overperform their budget win with process, not one brilliant hire. I design the process.
Recruitment is the product
It decides everything downstream: the table, the wage bill, the manager's job. All of it is set by how you sign players.
Decisions before data
Data only matters once you know which decision it serves. I start with the decision and work backward.
What I bring
What I’d do for your club.
- 01
Recruitment systems
A repeatable way to find, value and sign the right players for your budget, not just the famous ones.
- 02
Department design
Roles, structure and decision rights that make a football operation fast and coherent instead of political.
- 03
Data into decisions
Turning analysis into real recruitment and squad calls, with the judgement to know what the numbers miss.
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