BlueCityBrain

What started as messy Excel sheets became charts, then power bi dashboards, and now a full platform valuball .co It’s a bit surreal to be at this point to be honest. Ive poured hours into Excel sheets and Power BI over the years, so this platform’s really been built out of love of this stuff (banter lol 😂). And honestly, who better to build it with than @KieranMaguire someone who’s already led the way on the accounts side. Here’s what you’ll find on the platform 📊 30+ years of Premier League club accounts 🔁 10+ years of sourced transfer data 🏟️ 105 clubs from the Prem to League Two 📈 10+ dashboard types including simulators, comparisons, league views 💼 20+ financial metrics per club like wages, revenue, amortisation and more 📝 Blogs, blogs more blogs (🔜) And much more to add as well Would love any feedback to help us get this kicked off🙏

genuinely the nicest thing i’ve ever seen watching football i was in tears

Peps so insane if you see below there is 6 out of his 9 seasons (25/26 not mapped yet). All sit in the top 25 all time seasons performance wise from 1969/70 to 2024/25. (Performance score is a massive formula using a ton of data to map out each and every season to compare them against each other in a meaningful “success score”)

@Anderson__AFC @9320pod Apps coming soon over on @valuball 👌

@BlueCityBrain @9320pod Insane app tbf how much does it cost

He finished above United in 100% of his 10 seasons

@slbsn lol - will add 25/26 after the weekend but visually looks funny as with an average 22pt gap differential

North Stand to be renamed ‘The Pep Guardiola Stand.' 🩵 Read more 🔗 mancity.co/ThePepGuardiol…

I don’t know why they’re having this reaction - we were meant to be “finished” after last season. And this season we weren’t meant to be in it. It’s not like you won the league by 15 points and City had issues all season. If anything if I was an Arsenal fan I’d worry - city went undefeated in the league for a good while it was the earlier part of the season where Pep was still figuring it out. Like city once won the league with a 100 points 19 pts more than the next. The next year we got a contender that did 97 points. You just have to wait and see how the dust settles. Hot takes like this age really badly

@ManCity Legit going to cry. 10 years. 10 amazing years. I don’t think we’ll ever see levels like this again.

"What a time we have had together." 🩵

@cholan_velu96 You haven’t even made an argument. The only thing I’m trying to decipher is whether you’re an idiot or a troll. I’m thinking both 😂

@BlueCityBrain What? Like I said it shows you haven't even understood the argument 😂😂😂 Man enjoy arguing. That's the only trophy you'll get

In 2018/19 - 2 teams finished on 98 points and 97 points one of them doing a domestic treble and there was 4 teams from the Premier League in both finals. Ask City fans or Liverpool fans how hard it was to win a league then lol.. imagine finishing on 97 points and not winning the league. This is recent history Enjoy your title but there no need to put this season on a pedestal

@cholan_velu96 Still going on about the name lol. Sad for you my post has nothing to do with last season.

@BlueCityBrain Tsk tsk, sad for you that you can't even understand basic dynamics of how leagues are played out and how analysts judge every season. I don't expect you to understand hence it's better you remove that name

When you have to attack someone’s username you’ve already lost the argument. Just saying. Funny story my username is based on a very old reddit name where essentially it’s “brainless” and it would also catch out loads of people attacking it once they lose the argument. You’re doing the same 👏

@BlueCityBrain You need a brain to understand, clearly you don't have one. Maybe change your name

@cholan_velu96 What are you talking about.

@BlueCityBrain Ironic your name is bluecitybrain when you can't even decipher and analyse stats of this season compared to last seasons

Pep Guardiola’s era is coming to an end. How did he perform over 9 seasons, judged on squad cost? (excl. 2025/26 no data yet) The Pep era in one chart. Man City: the highest squad cost in the league and they sit above the line, meaning they overdelivered even on that spend. Most expensive squad AND best value. Man Utd: spent just as big. Landed 25 performance points lower. 👀 Over 9 seasons and a trophy haul nobody’s matched, Pep sits comfortably above the average line. ⸻ Measurements Squad Cost = 0.75×Wages + Amortisation + Agent Fees + Player Impairment − Net Player Sales (UEFA’s squad cost basis) Performance Score (0-100): blends league points, final position AND cup/Europe progression into one number - league weighted highest. Plot one vs the other = who actually gets value for money. 📊 Credit visual inspiration: @gregorypcordell who designed a similar fantastic chart.

@SebMadeInChina Disagree those 2 teams were just on another level. That 2018/19 team for me is probably the best out of all peps city teams probably even better than the treble team even though that one technically achieved more.

@BlueCityBrain No team in the world would be able to hit 97 points with the current competitiveness of the Prem. Teams have become so physical and defensively rigid that any team is capable of beating any other, which was not the case in 2019.

@_rickyravioli Because our 2018/19 team was miles better than this one? That isn’t the argument you were looking for lol

@BlueCityBrain If it was so easy this year why didn’t city do it?

Bouremouth, Brentford and Forest basically replaced Spurs, Leicester and Wolves from those years… burnley were in the Europa league that season ffs lol. Is the league slightly stronger now overall? Probably a little yes. But drop in 2018/19 Liverpool or City and they would have won the league comfortably this season. Those 2 teams were just on that level above “normal” good teams or good seasons and did so far above the rest it doesn’t matter where you drop them in.

@BlueCityBrain I’d argue it’s much harder to win the league when games like Bournemouth away, Brentford, Forest are no longer automatic 3 points.

lol did you not read how 4 teams of the premier league were IN the finals of both European competitions? Did you even watch football in 2018/19? Go watch those 2 teams play the level of football is 🔝 quality. Ask any city fan what that 2018/19 team would do to this 2025/26 city team and you’ll know. They’d mop the floor with us 😂

@BlueCityBrain When City & Liverpool were getting 97 & 98 points, were Palace winning the FA Cup, Villa winning the Europa League, Bournemouth within touching distance of Champions League playing champagne football?