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⚽️ Football scout & analyst

Worked within FC Sochi, Borussia Dortmund, Lokomotiv Moscow and Koninklijke HFC

Set up this account to share my scouting and analysis with the world, and to build new connections in the game we love

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#ScoutingReport #Norway #NorwegianFootball #Football #SondreGranaas #Molde #Eliteserien

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Fresh off the desk: my recent scouting report on Sondre Granaas, Molde’s 20-year-old number ten.

Imagine a creator who also tackles like a bloodhound. There he is 🧵

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Sondre Granaas has the profile of a No.10 who presses first and plays forward quickly, so I looked at where that actually fits.

🇳🇱 PSV: Peter Bosz’s front-foot pressing rewards a counter-pressing ten, and Granaas offers the long-term answer to a number ten who is increasingly being used as a forward.

🇩🇪 Eintracht Frankfurt: a strong option for the No.8 role. Hütter’s vertical, transition-heavy football suits his forward passing and ball-winning, and the double pivot behind him frees him to arrive higher up the pitch.

🇧🇪 Club Brugge: a younger, more aggressive version of the creative role Vanaken and Vetlesen share, in a side built on pressing and forward play.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Swansea: a creative slot that is genuinely open, with weekly senior minutes and a route upwards.

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@ManuVaquero_ Arriving in the box from left back at 17 is the bit I’d want to see more of. One of the rare examples of top-down tactical trends.
In his case, is the timing coming from reading the play, or is it mostly team's approach?

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@EmirScouts @KAAGent @AAGentNews @KaaGentNews @KAAGentFR @KAAGmobiel @KAAGSupRaad @Gent_Headlines Finding those central gaps from a wing-back slot is the interesting part. Would be good to know how much of it is him and how much is Gent’s structure freeing him up.

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@SerbFootyScout @meridiansportrs That kind of constant contact with players and their clubs could help with availability too, which he says cost them at the U19s. Useful before a home tournament!

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@CroatiaFooty Pure magic. Modrić will go down in history as someone with the best passing compass in football history.

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@Gr0wnDuck @FCTokyoKaiGuys @U21_fctokyo @jriiguuwasa40 @jun_kanomata @YutaShimozawa10 @J_League @jlgfbl @thetheteatea @tokyogas @JLeagueFra Interesting that Musashi supply 22 of the 41 U18s with U15 squads of a similar size. Is that a stronger run of intakes, or does the club lean on them more for some reason?

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Breakdown after breakdown. Here's more to come!

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#FootballScouting #ScoutingReport #FootballTwitter #Scouting #FCToronto #MLS #JahmarieNolan #Jamaica #Jamaica

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This is a report I wrote in September on Jahmarie Nolan, a 16-year-old Jamaican striker at Toronto FC II.

This kid knows exactly where goals live. 🧵

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Where he fits: Sunderland and Cagliari as academy-level pathways, Getafe as the most direct system for a target-man poacher, and Wrexham as the quickest route to real senior minutes.

A direct, transition-based side with width on each flank is his natural home.