When starting the recruitment process within football, it is incredibly important that you fully understand what you are trying to be and what you are trying to achieve as a football club.

Do you plan to use a back three or a back four? Within that, do you expect your central defenders to be key in the build-up phase, or are they there purely to nullify opposition attacks?

The questions go on, and if you complete this process properly, you should end up with a list of player profiles for each position on the pitch.

Then, we need to understand exactly what these profiles mean and how they fit together as a cohesive unit on the pitch.

Lee Scott guides us through how to use data to identify dominant defenders in his new recruitment analysis!

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