What's the other side?
Was Allan Campbell one of Scotland's top midfielders?
What "metrics" would you say for you McLeish would clearly top any other managerial candidate in the global process?
Have nothing against data being used sensibly by the way, I use data and Ai carefully to assist my day to day work.
Monitoring players hearts rates. recoveries, condition during games, pinpointing good times to replace before performance drops or risking injury and even looking for opponent weaknesses all sound usage.
But to tell us they've picked a manager based on data-driven recruitment process is a patronising load of shite!