Newcastle United
Yankuba Minteh Scouting Report At Feyenoord Rotterdam 2023/24
Following the Saudi Public Investment Funds takeover at Newcastle in 2021, there have been numerous comings and goings at St James’ Park. While big money has been spent on established Premier League players such as Anthony Gordon and Harvey Barnes, one player acquisition that may have slipped under the radar is Gambian, Yankuba Minteh. Danish [...]
Newcastle United recently found themselves grappling with an injury crisis that tested the depth of their squad. Amid this challenging period, Eddie Howe turned to the Magpies' highly respected academy and put his faith in one of their own. Lewis Miley is the young, dynamic midfielder who has seamlessly stepped up to the challenge of [...]
VfB Stuttgart
Sebastian Hoeneß Tactics & Coaching Style At VfB Stuttgart 2023/2204 – Tactical Analysis
Who Is Sebastian hoeness? In recent years, German football has seen its fair share of clubs falling short of expectations and teams surprising observers by performing much better than anticipated. For example, this season in the Bundesliga, Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are leading the way at the top of the table, going unbeaten in their [...]
Aggie Beever-Jones: Chelsea Women
When manager Emma Hayes announced that she would leave Chelsea Women at the end of the 2023/24 WSL season, following 11 years at the helm and 15 trophies won (to date), there was a great deal of sadness but also a recognition that the USWNT job that she would be taking up did not come [...]
Bobby Smyrniotis: Hamilton Forge FC
Bobby Smyrniotis’ reign at Forge FC is the stuff of legend. The Canadian Premier League has existed for five years, and Forge has claimed four North Star Cup titles, which goes to the playoff champion. The lone year that they did not win the championship, Forge was still a finalist and finished top of the [...]
Amy Gallacher
Amy Gallacher Scouting Report At Celtic Women – Tactical Analysis
With Celtic Women finishing just short of their maiden Scottish Women’s Premier League (SWPL) 1 title in 2022/23 due to Glasgow City’s late winner against Rangers Women on the last day, the Airdrie-based club’s target for this season could not have been more straightforward; go one better. With 14 wins from their opening 16 matches, [...]
Gianluca Prestianni: Velez Sarsfield
Gianluca Prestianni made headlines across Europe this summer. Several major publications reported that Barcelona, Real Madrid, and West Ham United were among the teams interested in the Velez Sarsfield forward. However, the latest reports suggest that Benfica are leading the race for his signature and could bring him in for £10m in January next year. [...]
Marko Saloranta: Finland Women
2022 will go down in the history of the Finnish women’s game as a year of mixed feelings, with there being a great deal of positivity over their appearance in the Euro 2022 finals after missing out on Euro 2017 but plenty of negativity about the way that the team performed in England, with the [...]
Player Analysis
Soungoutou Magassa Scout Report At AS Monaco 2023/2024 – Player Analysis
A product of Monaco’s elite youth academy, Soungoutou Magassa made his debut for the Ligue 1 club last season, appearing twice in the top flight and accumulating about 80 minutes of game time. This season, the 20-year-old has ascended to proper first-team status, having started all of Les Monégasques’ first eight league games this term, [...]
As we’ve almost reached the midway point of the 2023/24 season, Portsmouth lead EFL League One under the tutelage of manager John Mousinho, having only lost one game out of 21 at the time of writing, perching themselves atop the third-tier table, seven points ahead of Peterborough United in second. This is quite an impressive [...]
BK Häcken were the Swedish champions of 2022, as Per-Mathias Høgmo led the team to glory, but in the summer, both of their starting wingers — Ibrahim Sadiq and Lars Larsen — moved abroad after winning the Svenska Cupen 2023. The 2005-born Momodou Sonko grabbed this opportunity and challenged for a starting left-winger position. He [...]
Wilfried Nancy
Wilfried Nancy Tactics At Columbus Crew 2023/2024 – Tactical Analysis
On December 9th, Columbus Crew defeated LA Galaxy. He won the MLS Cup in a season that amazed everyone with this team's performance, characterized by continuous striving for initiative and attack. Their team is considered the most potent in MLS this season, with 79 goals. To understand the reason for this, we need to know the [...]
Every year, I love keeping an eye on the UEFA Youth League competition. It can feel like a break from all the noise surrounding the actual UEFA Champions League and all the talking points that competition generates in the media while still giving us a chance to see some of Europe’s best in competition, albeit [...]
Holstein Kiel
Marcel Rapp Tactics At Holstein Kiel 2023/2024 – Head Coach Analysis
German football has always had a distinct feel; you simply knew what kind of football and what kind of quality to expect from the Bundesliga. The same can be said about the second tier of Bundesliga, too. Just like its big brother, the 2. Bundesliga is home to many talented players and coaches alike waiting [...]
Jorge Bava: Liverpool Montevideo
Despite a relatively recent journey into the world of coaching, Jorge Bava has begun to take positive strides and find his feet in management since retiring. Since taking over his former club, Liverpool Montevideo, he has gone from strength to strength in order to propel the club up the table and contend for the Uruguayan [...]
Jürgen Henn: Free agent (formerly Flora Tallinn)
The Estonian Meistriliiga has been dominated by Flora Tallinn in recent years, with the club winning the league four times in five years. While their achievements were a result of a great team effort, they wouldn’t have been possible without the balanced approach and vision of their young coach, Jürgen Henn. The manager came in [...]
Niko Arnautis: Eintracht Frankfurt Women
Niko Arnautis is a Greek-German manager who took over Eintracht Frankfurt in July 2020 when 1. FFC Frankfurt, a record seven-time Frauen-Bundesliga champions, merged with Eintracht Frankfurt. During his time at the club, he took them from mid-table to being consistently competing at the top with Wolfsburg and Bayern. In 2023/24, he achieved a return [...]
Onyi Echegini: Florida State Seminoles
Onyi Echegini is a 22-year-old midfielder who has spent the last five seasons playing college soccer in the US. She started off her footballing career in London with Arsenal. However, in 2019, she opted to continue her playing career in the US with Mississippi State, where she spent the next three seasons before transferring to [...]
Marieanne Spacey-Cale: Southampton Women
Marieanne Spacey-Cale is an English former international player and current head coach of Southampton Women. She started her coaching career with Fulham Ladies in 2003 before moving to AFC Wimbledon Ladies, England Under-16, Under-17 and Under-19 teams, as well as the Arsenal and Charlton Athletic coaching departments. Afterwards, she had a very enriching experience as [...]
Zara Kramžar is an international Slovenian midfielder who is 17 years old and plays at Roma Women in Serie A Femminile. Kramžar joined the Giallorosse during the 2022–23 season and has become an instrumental and reliable backup player. Indeed, being a backup player is certainly not Kramžar’s ambition. Yet, playing quite regularly at a promising [...]
Melanie Reay: Sunderland Women
Melanie Reay is a former player of both Sunderland and Newcastle United, in addition to being the current head coach of Sunderland Women, where she is doing a fine job. Reay started her coaching career at Newcastle United as an assistant before becoming an assistant for Sunderland. In March 2017, she became head coach of [...]
Scouting Report
In 2024, one name that will continue to reverberate as a beacon of promise is Hugo Larsson. The 19-year-old central midfielder has not only caught the eye of enthusiasts but has also left a lasting impression on the tactical landscape. Hailing from the rich tradition of Scandinavian football, Larsson's emergence adds another chapter to Sweden's [...]
Serie A
Patrick Dorgu Scouting Report At US Lecce – Serie A
At the time of writing, US Lecce are sitting 12th in Serie A as they outperform both expectation and budget. Since they were promoted back to top-flight football at the end of the 21/22 season, part of their success has been their ability to find and recruit good players from markets that typically have little [...]
Samu Omorodion Aghehowa
Who Is Samu Omorodion? As we approach the end of 2023 and the start of 2024, football has reached something of a saturation point. The easy access to leagues from around the world, accelerated by the investment in the Saudi Pro League, has meant that there are simply fewer hidden gems in the game than [...]