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TORONTO -- General manager Tim Bezbatchenko has laid out his vision for Toronto FC, with an emphasis on analytics and science off the pitch and developing depth and young talent on it. In a speech Sunday at a barbecue for season ticket-holders at the clubs training centre, Bezbatchenko said the MLS clubs transformation is an ongoing process. But he also suggested that improvements were sorely needed. He said the team, currently seventh in the Eastern Conference with a 9-11-7 record, had drafted poorly in the past and overtrained this season, leading to injuries. The decision to fire manager Ryan Nelsen on Aug. 31 was because the club has vision and values "and we hold people accountable to them," he said. "For whatever reason, the team had stopped playing," he said. "Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions, you have to make bold decisions ... We couldnt wait any longer." The 32-year-old GM said the club has created a department of cognitive science, to help young players "speed of processing" on the pitch among other things. The franchise has also made its scouting department independent of coaches. "That has never happened here before," he said. He said that will help create a regular database and ensure that information or contacts arent lost when a coach leaves. The club is also committed to analytics, he said, with databases set up over the last year. "Now were looking to apply it in the area of cap management, the area of scouting and sports science and nutrition," he said. "Making sure that our players are not susceptible to injury because of overtraining as youve seen this year." Bezbatchenko said he expected the salary cap to rise US$1 million to $4 million after the next collective bargain agreement, allowing for more player investment. And ay money from players sales will be reinvested, he said. There have been question-marks over the future of star striker Jermain Defoe in recent weeks with the club turning down a franchise-record offer at the closing of the last transfer window. "If we end up selling a player no matter who it is, that money will be invested back into the team for either designated players or a facility or something that will improve the team," Bezbatchenko said. "Thats my commitment to you." The GM pointed to youth development as one of the pillars for the club, saying it is needed to develop a solid core of players. "Its having the talent that can withstand injuries," he said. Toronto players have missed more a combined 80-plus games through injury this season. Bezbatchenko said the club wants to double the number of players that have graduated from its academy over the next three years and double the number of players on the roster that were drafted by the club. 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But the fear of relegation was troubling enough for the central England club to fire Alan Irvine on Monday after just four months as a Premier League manager.In Pulis, West Brom is gaining a more far experienced coach, who has been out of work since quitting Palace on the eve of this season. Before focusing on Premier League survival, the former Stoke managers first game in charge of West Brom is against non-league club Gateshead in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday.Every successful club is built on unity and that is what I shall strive to help bring to Albion, Pulis said We need everyone together from top to bottom —— the supporters, all the staff, the players, everyone who has an interest in the clubs welfare.dddddddddddd With that, we can go forward together and hopefully take this club up the Premier League.Pulis reputation was forged at Stoke, which he took from the second tier to the top flight where an aggressive, long-ball style made the team hard to beat. The tactics did not always impress rivals, and were once disparaged by an official West Brom publication.Stoke train with cannons rescued from local medieval ruins, a match report in the West Brom program read in the 2007-08 season. Footballs are loaded into them and fired into the distance ... its a game plan that squeezes the life out of what used to be known as football.But with Pulis becoming West Broms fourth manager in just over a year, the club is far more appreciative now of his survival specialism.The West Brom website on Thursday praised Pulis for making his Stoke side such a thorn in Albions side throughout a seven-year stint, before highlighting his proud record of never suffering relegation as a manager.He arrives with Premier League survival the priority target outlined by the Albion board, the club website said.___Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris ' ' '