Llew Davies

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Breaking down Lennon Miller, Scotland's future star

22 hours ago | scoutedftbl.com | Llew Davies

Players — 11 min read If you’ve never heard of Lennon Miller, now you have. At just 18 years old, the Wishaw-born midfielder has already played 76 times for boyhood club Motherwell, racking up almost 6,000 minutes in the process. A significant chunk of those appearances were as captain. Last month, he was voted PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year for the 2024/25 season by his peers.
How to recruit like the Belgian Pro League

1 week ago | scoutedftbl.com | Llew Davies

Belgian Pro League clubs continually find undervalued young talent from every corner of the world, sign them, develop them, then sell them for significant profit. It’s an approach that has helped Belgian sides compete in UEFA Club Competitions and put them on the path to overtake Portugal and the Netherlands in the UEFA coefficient, with France in their sights.
Breaking down Yan Diomandé: an undiscovered gamebreaker

1 week ago | scoutedftbl.com | Llew Davies

The future of football is Africa. That’s a slogan SCOUTED have been pushing for a while now. More and more clubs are latching onto it too, and they’re starting to yield the high-upside results they first saw in regions like Scandinavia and at clubs like Red Bull Salzburg. The latest African prospect to make an immediate impact in top-flight European football is Yan Diomandé, an 18-year-old Ivorian winger.
The best players at the UEFA U-17 EURO: MD1

1 week ago | scoutedftbl.com | Llew Davies

It’s that time of the year again… the men’s UEFA U-17 European Championship is back!A significant change has been made since last year: UEFA have chopped the tournament in half. The organisers have reduced participation from 16 teams in four groups to eight in two. The change brings concentrates the quality somewhat and brings it in line with the under-19 version.
SCOUTED XI: Our UEFA U-17 EURO Team of the Tournament

2 weeks ago | scoutedftbl.com | Llew Davies

Analysis — 12 min read The UEFA U-17 European Championship has come and gone for another year. For the longest time it looked like reigning champions Italy were set to romp to a defence of their title: then up stepped Romário Cunha and Portugal. After a fairly comfortable run through the group, the Portuguese rode their shootout high in the semi to dismantle France in the final, and then we knew our continental champions at this age group for another year.
An introduction to the Power Forward

Feb 27, 2025 | scoutedftbl.com | Jake Entwistle |Tom Curren |Llew Davies

Football is changing. Andoni Iraola summed it up best when reflecting on his playing career that finished in 2016: “Probably, technically and tactically we were as good as the players we see nowadays but there is a physical side we would struggle with.”And no wonder. Just look at this:The English top-flight is getting faster and players are performing more actions at High Intensity each game. As Iraola alludes to, it is no longer enough to be an elite footballer.
João Neves: straight to the very top

May 16, 2024 | scoutednotebook.com | Llew Davies

SCOUTED50 is our collection of the fifty young talents we believe are best positioned to break into the mainstream during 2023/24. Throughout the season, we’ll be detailing all fifty in definitive profiles. Read the full list here. This one drills down on João Neves. This profile was produced as part of a commercial collaboration with SkillCorner, SCOUTED’s official data partner.
Introducing Francesco Camarda: UEFA Youth League, Matchday 1

Sep 21, 2023 | scoutednotebook.com | Llew Davies

The UEFA Youth League is back! Europe’s premier club youth competition returns for another season, fresh off a campaign that fostered exciting underdog stories for probably the first time in its decade-long history. AZ Alkmaar won it all, if you remember. They went all the way through the Domestic Champions pathway, beating the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Sporting CP en route to the final.
SCOUTED XI: Our U-20 World Cup Team of the Tournament

Jun 14, 2023 | scoutednotebook.com | Llew Davies

It’s all over. 52 games later and we have a new Under-20 World Champion: Uruguay. In a tournament loaded with quality at both ends of the field, that bombarded young legs with game after game and subjected them to increasingly difficult pitch conditions, it was the Garra Charrúa – the overwhelming intensity and tenacity of the Uruguayan team – that eventually won out.