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The SCOUTED Breakout Team of the Year is also known as the 2025 I told you so XI.
@llewdavies.bsky.social, our Scouting Editor, has an incredible track record of spotting, profiling and evaluating players all before they hit the mainstream. As he did for this XI.
Read for free: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
@llewdavies.bsky.social, our Scouting Editor, has an incredible track record of spotting, profiling and evaluating players all before they hit the mainstream. As he did for this XI.
Read for free: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The SCOUTED Breakout Team of the Year is also known as the 2025 I told you so XI.
@llewdavies.bsky.social, our Scouting Editor, has an incredible track record of spotting, profiling and evaluating players all before they hit the mainstream. As he did for this XI.
Read for free: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
@llewdavies.bsky.social, our Scouting Editor, has an incredible track record of spotting, profiling and evaluating players all before they hit the mainstream. As he did for this XI.
Read for free: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
What makes Adam Wharton an especially great forward passer is how quickly he sees (and plays) the forward passes. He is so good at those first-time passes, finding the angle, and pumping the ball into higher lines. Difficult to defend and it energises attacks.
December 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
What makes Adam Wharton an especially great forward passer is how quickly he sees (and plays) the forward passes. He is so good at those first-time passes, finding the angle, and pumping the ball into higher lines. Difficult to defend and it energises attacks.
How many people thought Morgan Rogers would be one of the best players in the Premier League some three years after barely getting on the pitch for Bournemouth and scoring one goal in 22 appearances for Blackpool? Development isn't linear and every journey is different.
December 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How many people thought Morgan Rogers would be one of the best players in the Premier League some three years after barely getting on the pitch for Bournemouth and scoring one goal in 22 appearances for Blackpool? Development isn't linear and every journey is different.
The SCOUTED Breakout Team of the Year is also known as the 2025 I told you so XI.
We made @llewdavies.bsky.social put together an XI of players that SCOUTED subscribers would have known well ahead of the curve, thanks to his work. It also includes breakouts for 2026.
Free to read: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
We made @llewdavies.bsky.social put together an XI of players that SCOUTED subscribers would have known well ahead of the curve, thanks to his work. It also includes breakouts for 2026.
Free to read: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The SCOUTED Breakout Team of the Year is also known as the 2025 I told you so XI.
We made @llewdavies.bsky.social put together an XI of players that SCOUTED subscribers would have known well ahead of the curve, thanks to his work. It also includes breakouts for 2026.
Free to read: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
We made @llewdavies.bsky.social put together an XI of players that SCOUTED subscribers would have known well ahead of the curve, thanks to his work. It also includes breakouts for 2026.
Free to read: bit.ly/3MFTwYi
Our a year in review: a Christmas letter from SCOUTED.
A Christmas letter from SCOUTED
Our year in review.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our a year in review: a Christmas letter from SCOUTED.
Keita Kosugi to Eintracht Frankfurt is a typical Eintracht Frankfurt transfer. He fits the bill in terms of profile for the club, attributes at left-back, and it gets ahead of the Nathaniel Brown sale (for another big profit) down the line. Exciting and sensible in equal measure.
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Keita Kosugi to Eintracht Frankfurt is a typical Eintracht Frankfurt transfer. He fits the bill in terms of profile for the club, attributes at left-back, and it gets ahead of the Nathaniel Brown sale (for another big profit) down the line. Exciting and sensible in equal measure.
Robin Roefs is the crown prince of our go-to metric for goalkeepers.
He's responsible for 27.3% of all entries of an U-23 goalkeeper Stopping 4+ Crosses in a single league game across all divisions with advanced @fbref.com data in 2025.
Discover more: bit.ly/3MOv9Ye
He's responsible for 27.3% of all entries of an U-23 goalkeeper Stopping 4+ Crosses in a single league game across all divisions with advanced @fbref.com data in 2025.
Discover more: bit.ly/3MOv9Ye
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Robin Roefs is the crown prince of our go-to metric for goalkeepers.
He's responsible for 27.3% of all entries of an U-23 goalkeeper Stopping 4+ Crosses in a single league game across all divisions with advanced @fbref.com data in 2025.
Discover more: bit.ly/3MOv9Ye
He's responsible for 27.3% of all entries of an U-23 goalkeeper Stopping 4+ Crosses in a single league game across all divisions with advanced @fbref.com data in 2025.
Discover more: bit.ly/3MOv9Ye
This final edition of the Rabbit Hole in 2025 contains two Alternative Teams of the Year:
1) a collection of the highest-profile, record-breaking under-23 players that just kept popping up
2) a collection of under-the-radar prospects that logged eye-catching individual displays this year
1) a collection of the highest-profile, record-breaking under-23 players that just kept popping up
2) a collection of under-the-radar prospects that logged eye-catching individual displays this year
Falling down a 2025 rabbit hole...
...and reliving the best U-23 displays of the year.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This final edition of the Rabbit Hole in 2025 contains two Alternative Teams of the Year:
1) a collection of the highest-profile, record-breaking under-23 players that just kept popping up
2) a collection of under-the-radar prospects that logged eye-catching individual displays this year
1) a collection of the highest-profile, record-breaking under-23 players that just kept popping up
2) a collection of under-the-radar prospects that logged eye-catching individual displays this year
Arsenal should've signed Hugo Ekitiké.
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Arsenal should've signed Hugo Ekitiké.
What did a Charlie Hughes monsterclass, a series of tame goals at Craven Cottage and an uncharacteristically fragile Arsenal low block tell us about the modern game? We're very much in the Ruthless Aggression Era.
The Ruthless Aggression Era
Monday Night SCOUTED asks if we can ever measure the meta's most important intangible
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December 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What did a Charlie Hughes monsterclass, a series of tame goals at Craven Cottage and an uncharacteristically fragile Arsenal low block tell us about the modern game? We're very much in the Ruthless Aggression Era.
Nathan De Cat is a name you will hear a lot more about. A regular at Anderlecht, almost 5,000 senior minutes played, and on the agenda of every elite club: he is well ahead of the curve in his development. Introducing the biggest of Belgian talents.
Introducing Nathan De Cat
Long limbs, disguised passing, and a bam-bam tempo: breaking down Belgium's teenage number six
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December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nathan De Cat is a name you will hear a lot more about. A regular at Anderlecht, almost 5,000 senior minutes played, and on the agenda of every elite club: he is well ahead of the curve in his development. Introducing the biggest of Belgian talents.
RC Lens are top of Ligue 1 at the winter break, and 23-year-old summer signing Mamadou Sangaré is turning heads for his all-action role and impressive skillset in midfield. Llew Davies picked him out as one of the best-value Big Five League signings back in September. This has aged well.
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
RC Lens are top of Ligue 1 at the winter break, and 23-year-old summer signing Mamadou Sangaré is turning heads for his all-action role and impressive skillset in midfield. Llew Davies picked him out as one of the best-value Big Five League signings back in September. This has aged well.
Those Ruben Amorim quotes about Kobbie Mainoo and academy players. Yikes.
December 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Those Ruben Amorim quotes about Kobbie Mainoo and academy players. Yikes.
Clubs offering upwards of €20 million for Sidiki Chérif – a 19-year-old striker at Angers with little more than 1,400 minutes to his name – is no surprise. His profile is eye-catching: a fast, rangy runner with wiry strength that attacks space and has a piledriver of a shot. Clubs love those traits.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Clubs offering upwards of €20 million for Sidiki Chérif – a 19-year-old striker at Angers with little more than 1,400 minutes to his name – is no surprise. His profile is eye-catching: a fast, rangy runner with wiry strength that attacks space and has a piledriver of a shot. Clubs love those traits.
Close your legs against Michael Olise.
December 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Close your legs against Michael Olise.
Robin Roefs makes everything look simple and easy. Can't recall ever seeing him rattled or flustered in any situation, and we've watched him quite a lot. Always even-keeled.
December 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Robin Roefs makes everything look simple and easy. Can't recall ever seeing him rattled or flustered in any situation, and we've watched him quite a lot. Always even-keeled.
Two goals in the space of six minutes for Samu Aghehowa against Malmö in the UEFA Europa League last night. One a dunk with his head, the other a swivel with his foot, and both from almost indentical central positions on the six-yard line after crosses.
Big boy. Box dominator. Goal hanger.
Big boy. Box dominator. Goal hanger.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Two goals in the space of six minutes for Samu Aghehowa against Malmö in the UEFA Europa League last night. One a dunk with his head, the other a swivel with his foot, and both from almost indentical central positions on the six-yard line after crosses.
Big boy. Box dominator. Goal hanger.
Big boy. Box dominator. Goal hanger.
Myles Lewis-Skelly should be doing extras after training with Jurriën Timber on isolated, one-v-one defending.
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Myles Lewis-Skelly should be doing extras after training with Jurriën Timber on isolated, one-v-one defending.
If you're looking for history made by Yan Diomandé, a Kosovar midfielder with Adam Wharton's passing profile, a 2-metre tall Senegalese striker, an Eredivisie record equalled by Kees Smi, and an obvious Mohamed Salah replacement. This is for you:
Falling down a Yan Diomandé rabbit hole
...and adding the first 2-metre giant to our database
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December 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you're looking for history made by Yan Diomandé, a Kosovar midfielder with Adam Wharton's passing profile, a 2-metre tall Senegalese striker, an Eredivisie record equalled by Kees Smi, and an obvious Mohamed Salah replacement. This is for you:
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Introducing BREAKOUT5.
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Introducing BREAKOUT5.
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
Rayan Cherki is one of the most effective players of his generation, rabonas and all: bit.ly/4pVcWXc
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Rayan Cherki is one of the most effective players of his generation, rabonas and all: bit.ly/4pVcWXc
Rayan Cherki created six chances from open play against Sunderland, no player has created more in a Premier League game this season. Three with his left foot and three with his right foot. And one of them was that rabona.
It turns that piece of skill and Pep's post-match quotes present a paradox.
It turns that piece of skill and Pep's post-match quotes present a paradox.
Rayan Cherki and the rabona paradox
Monday Night SCOUTED counters Pep's post-match plea for simplicity.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Rayan Cherki created six chances from open play against Sunderland, no player has created more in a Premier League game this season. Three with his left foot and three with his right foot. And one of them was that rabona.
It turns that piece of skill and Pep's post-match quotes present a paradox.
It turns that piece of skill and Pep's post-match quotes present a paradox.
A tidal wave of teenage French talent has washed over Europe's big five leagues. Ligue 1 clubs are selling more defenders than ever before at an even earlier stage in their development.
Find out why Toulouse are ahead of the curve when it comes to centre-back development: bit.ly/3MeVjDq
Find out why Toulouse are ahead of the curve when it comes to centre-back development: bit.ly/3MeVjDq
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A tidal wave of teenage French talent has washed over Europe's big five leagues. Ligue 1 clubs are selling more defenders than ever before at an even earlier stage in their development.
Find out why Toulouse are ahead of the curve when it comes to centre-back development: bit.ly/3MeVjDq
Find out why Toulouse are ahead of the curve when it comes to centre-back development: bit.ly/3MeVjDq
Introducing BREAKOUT5.
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Introducing BREAKOUT5.
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
This is our regular collection of talents Llew Davies was most impressed by this month. Think a smaller SCOUTED50 but contemporary, collectible and immediately relevant - and based on real hours put into scouting over the past thirty days.
Discover the future: bit.ly/4pbHQe5
By reading our latest SkillCorner analysis on the centre-back crèche that is France, you'll learn about:
▫️ The tidal wave of teenage talent
▫️ The duality of spears and shields
▫️ The next mega-money Ligue 1 export
▫️ The EFL Championship prospects to replace him
It's completely free.
▫️ The tidal wave of teenage talent
▫️ The duality of spears and shields
▫️ The next mega-money Ligue 1 export
▫️ The EFL Championship prospects to replace him
It's completely free.
The centre-back créche
Why Ligue 1 clubs should double down on their appeal to the English market by partnering their homegrown prodigies with EFL prospects
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December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
By reading our latest SkillCorner analysis on the centre-back crèche that is France, you'll learn about:
▫️ The tidal wave of teenage talent
▫️ The duality of spears and shields
▫️ The next mega-money Ligue 1 export
▫️ The EFL Championship prospects to replace him
It's completely free.
▫️ The tidal wave of teenage talent
▫️ The duality of spears and shields
▫️ The next mega-money Ligue 1 export
▫️ The EFL Championship prospects to replace him
It's completely free.