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What Is the Purpose of a Scouting Report?

One of the most common assumptions in football scouting is that the purpose of a scouting report is to explain […]

Football has a peculiar talent for turning emotionally regulated adults into temporary lunatics, and what is perhaps even stranger is

Smart recruitment used to mean winning. Not always winning immediately, not always winning everything, but winning in the football sense:

Five Years Ago, A Problem Needed Naming Five years ago, I wrote a football scouting book in Turkish called Scout

From far enough away, football looks simple. Twenty-two players, one ball, some running, some shouting, periodic collective disappointment. To the

Football has never been more available. There are matches every day, highlights every hour, tactical boards on social media, dashboards

Game model has become one of football’s favorite modern phrases. Coaches mention it in interviews, analysts debate it on timelines,

Philosophy vs results in football is the argument that quietly destroys more projects than bad scouting, bad luck, or bad

Short-term vs long-term thinking in football is not just a management debate. It is one of the deepest structural reasons