Market Analysis: Norway’s Youthful Toppserien

Neel Shelat looks at Norway's Toppserien, a market with real importance for elite-level recruitment and the promise of its youth development

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19 Aug, 2025

What next for Eintracht Frankfurt?

19 Aug, 2025

Mohamed Mohamed looks at how last season's Bundesliga surprise package play and what may now change after some big departures

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Pathways: How FC Juárez Have Grown as a Hub for Sub-Saharan Talent in Liga MX Femenil

Neel Shelat assesses how a club in Mexico is making the most of a relatively untapped market for talent Sub-Saharan Africa is right up there with the most promising and potential-filled markets in world football, certainly in terms of cost versus value. Scores of clubs from around the world...

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18 Jun, 2025

Raising the ceiling or raising the floor? The curious case of Jude Bellingham

18 Jun, 2025

Using Jude Bellingham as an example, Alex Stewart looks at how scouting theory can identify player types and make better use of them

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12 Jun, 2025

Pathways: Should Shakhtar Donetsk be Going Back to Brazil?

12 Jun, 2025

Neel Shelat looks at a club with a strong legacy of bringing Brazilian talent to Europe and asks whether they should, in fact, be casting their net wider

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10 Jun, 2025

Pathways: Are English Championship Clubs Getting The Best Out Of The Belgian Pro League Market?

10 Jun, 2025

Neel Shelat assesses the trading relationship between England's second tier and the Belgian Pro League, one of Europe's most astute importers of global talent

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30 Apr, 2025

Finding the Next Generation of Press-Resistant Midfielders

30 Apr, 2025

TransferLab Emerge brings 33 new youth leagues and 15,000 players to our advanced scouting platform. Here, we use it to find the next generation of press-resistant midfielders

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MCG Pathways: Sisterly/Hybrid Groups

Neel Shelat concludes his series on multi-club group pathways with a look at groups with several or more clubs operating at similar levels

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MCG Pathways: Hierarchical Groups

Neel Shelat's investigation into multi-club group pathways continues, with an assessment of hierarchical groups such as those created by INEOS or Black Knight

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MCG Pathways: Red Bull

Neel Shelat continues his assessment of multi-club group transfer pathways by looking at the energy drinks branding gurus who created the most distinct identity among MCGs, Red Bull

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