How bad analytics built a Tottenham team that might get relegated

I generally avoid ESPN's football coverage like the plague but this…this hits. Two quotes, in particular:

"Over the past few years, a new set of numbers has emerged in the soccer world. Rather than quantifying the things that lead to winning, they quantify the things that scouts and coaches have always seemed to value: Who is big and who is fast? Who looks good? Who would be unstoppable if I could teach him how to play?"

AND

"What they really needed — and what would've saved them from relegation — was someone who kept asking a simple question: But can he pass?"