| World Cup scouting thread 19:18 - Jun 11 with 11594 views | Mullet |
Simple concept. If you see a player you’d like to see at ITFC pop them in here and why.
Roy is looking a bit older tonight on ITV, I’m sure he will give us lots of pointers on who we should nab from Mexico or South Africa tonight. |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 08:43 - Jun 21 with 2224 views | Mullet |
| World Cup scouting thread on 09:31 - Jun 18 by yogiblue |
I'd take SUZUKI - Japan GK |
Yes he does look good. The Feyernoord striker who got a brace against Tunisia looks handy too! | |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 21:48 - Jun 24 with 2071 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
The control by Nathan Saliba to then provide the assist for the Canada goal was fantastic. However he played regularly for Anderlecht and they finished 4th in the Belgium league last year so I'm assuming they have European football and probably wouldn't want to sell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Also this is perhaps stretching the rules on this thread but just before the World Cup I watched the friendly between Romania and Wales and in the first half Louis Munteanu had a cracking goal incorrectly ruled out because he wasn't offside and it's shown at 30 seconds into the highlights below:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ [Post edited 24 Jun 22:18]
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| World Cup scouting thread on 22:11 - Jun 24 with 2032 views | RetroBlue |
0-4 to Brazil unfortunately... |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 23:00 - Jun 24 with 1951 views | armchaircritic59 |
| World Cup scouting thread on 19:26 - Jun 11 by J2BLUE |
Mbappe |
Well, we'd stay up :) Seriously, I liked the look of the Ghana full back that had Gordon in his back pocket all evening. I believe we've looked at him previously. |  | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 02:21 - Jun 25 with 1897 views | Sarge |
Quiñones (Mexico)
Livakovic (Croatia)
Baturina (Croatia, pipe dream)
Marco Pašalić (Croatia)
Wilson Isidor (Haiti) |  | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 22:20 - Jun 25 with 1747 views | grow_our_own |
I was going to say Nilson Angulo, the goal-scorer for Ecuador tonight vs Germany, but then I saw he plays for Sunderland. Their scouting/recruitment was amazing last year. | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 22:29 - Jun 25 with 1732 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| World Cup scouting thread on 01:05 - Jun 15 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Pedro Vite from Ecuador looks top. Play for Pumas is listed as an attacking midfielder but he's playing as a 6 and looks superb. |
I really like this guy. |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 23:02 - Jun 25 with 1672 views | Mullet |
| World Cup scouting thread on 22:20 - Jun 25 by grow_our_own |
I was going to say Nilson Angulo, the goal-scorer for Ecuador tonight vs Germany, but then I saw he plays for Sunderland. Their scouting/recruitment was amazing last year. |
Yep - wonder if we are still scouting South America or not | |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 06:47 - Jun 26 with 1572 views | DeliasMashedPotato |
Baris Yilmaz. RW
The turkish wes burns
His flukey goal aside, his assist for the first goal was unreal and nearly scored later.
Hes quick and always looking to get in behind. 26 from galatasaray | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 09:41 - Jun 26 with 1492 views | grow_our_own |
| World Cup scouting thread on 06:47 - Jun 26 by DeliasMashedPotato |
Baris Yilmaz. RW
The turkish wes burns
His flukey goal aside, his assist for the first goal was unreal and nearly scored later.
Hes quick and always looking to get in behind. 26 from galatasaray |
We desperately need a new right-wing. Top priority with a striker. | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 10:57 - Jun 26 with 1459 views | ITFCson |
Jordan Bos of Australia/Feyenoord.
Would be great competition for Davis. If he can play right back too (not sure on this) then even better. | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 14:32 - Jun 26 with 1404 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| World Cup scouting thread on 22:20 - Jun 25 by grow_our_own |
I was going to say Nilson Angulo, the goal-scorer for Ecuador tonight vs Germany, but then I saw he plays for Sunderland. Their scouting/recruitment was amazing last year. |
Top current goal scorers in the World Cup by club
1) Real Madrid
2) PSG
3) Sunderland |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 23:11 - Jun 27 with 1250 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich
Ashton interview OTD last year.
Watching some of these teams and how they stand up to their opposition who have "Better players" with their physicality and endurance is exactly what we need. | |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 20:51 - Jun 28 with 1095 views | grow_our_own |
Mbokazi the centre-back for South Africa. 20 years old. Strong as an ox, quick, comfortable on the ball. They've only conceded one since their first game. Plays MLS, so within our budget. [Post edited 28 Jun 20:55]
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| World Cup scouting thread on 21:03 - Jun 28 with 1072 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| World Cup scouting thread on 20:51 - Jun 28 by grow_our_own |
Mbokazi the centre-back for South Africa. 20 years old. Strong as an ox, quick, comfortable on the ball. They've only conceded one since their first game. Plays MLS, so within our budget. [Post edited 28 Jun 20:55]
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Absolutely superb. He is 5'10 tho which is a bit of a concern. But he plays bigger.
His partner Ime Okon is also pretty handy. | |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 12:48 - Jun 29 with 951 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
Just following the WC scouting theme it's interesting to read what players the other promoted clubs are being linked with.
Coventry are being linked with a 22 year old Swiss player who is at the WC without playing yet although he did get on the pitch as a sub in their pre WC warm up game with Australia. He has played over 30 games at Eintracht Frankfurt under his belt as well as having played in Europe while on loan at Young Boys.
He's also 6 foot 6 so you'd think he'd hopefully have the physicality to cope with the PL:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Coventry are alleged to be buying him for around €10m and I'm not saying that this is a player that we should be signing but profile wise you'd hope that we're at least looking at these sorts of players as options.
If you look at the profile of players that Sunderland and Leeds bought last season they were almost exclusively from clubs abroad.
I'd love us to target players similar to Sunderland last year and take for example Brian Brobbey who in the 2024-25 season won the Eredivisie Player of the Month award three time. Sunderland signed him when he was 23 for a for a fee of €20m, which could potentially rise to €25m.
They also signed Roefs for about €10.5m and I bet that both Brobbey and Roefs are worth a lot more than that now if they were to sell either of them. Even with Xhaka who they signed for €15m even though he's 33 it looks like they might make a profit on him if they sell him to Chelsea.
What we need to do as a club is get much much better at scouting and finding players who don't cost the earth but if they do well for Town we can make a profit on them. What we need to realise is that we just need players who can keep us up and move us onto the next level and if they then want to move to a s called top 6 club for a big profit then that's fine if we've got the next player waiting on the scouting conveyor belt. Teams such as Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford having been doing this very well for a while now and have been progressing nicely up the PL because of it.
Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and this summer we'll sign so gems from abroad but to date it feels like we're yet to see the real evidence of progress made by our scouting department.
That's where we to date seem to really lag behind clubs like Brighton where Tony Bloom comes from a Finance and Bookmaking background and so he really understands data and statistics which seems part of the key to identifying new player talent. Likewise at Brentford there's Matthew Benham who is from a finance and booking making background and so again is great for Brentford when it comes to the data and analytics side of the club required to identify and recruit new players.
It just seems that for a long time we've been light years behind such clubs (which I know is because of the chronic underinvestment in the Evans years) but I'm never too sure if Ashton for all his good points in having dragged this club out of the malaise of where it was is the same type of person as Matthew Benham and Tony Bloom to help really drive the recruiting side of the club into what is required now. Ashton seems to take on a lot of stuff himself but I really hope he has got in the right people to take our recruitment to the next level because without that we'll get nowhere this season.
Just delving into Sunderlands transfer business last summer they signed the following and lets see if we can follow and do something similar and fingers crossed pull some gems out of the hat.
Habib Diarra from R. Strasbourg €31.50m
Simon Adingra from Brighton €24.40m
Enzo Le Fée from Roma €23.75m
Brian Brobbey from Ajax €20.00m
Chemsdine Talbi from Club Brugge €20.00m
Nilson Angulo from RSC Anderlecht €17.34m
Noah Sadiki from Union SG €17.00m
Granit Xhaka from Leverkusen €15.00m
Nordi Mukiele from PSG €12.00m
Omar Alderete from Getafe €11.60m
Robin Roefs from NEC Nijmegen €10.50m
Jocelin Ta Bi from Maccabi Netanya €4.00m
Melker Ellborg from Malmö €3.45m
Bertrand Traoré from Ajax €2.90m
Reinildo Mandava from Atlético free transfer
Arthur Masuaku from Besiktas free transfer
Marc Guiu from Chelsea loan transfer
Lutsharel Geertruida from Leipzig loan transfer
Total €213.44m
Other than the signing of Adringa from Brighton and the loan signing of Guiu from Chelsea all of their signings were from abroad.
Likewise another promoted club last season Leeds made the majority of their signing from abroad.
Anton Stach from Hoffenheim €20.00m
Noah Okafor from AC Milan €19.00m
Jaka Bijol from Udinese €18.00m
Lucas Perri from Lyon €16.00m
Sean Longstaff from Newcastle €13.80m
Gabriel Gudmundsson from Lille €11.60m
James Justin from Leicester €9.30m
Sebastiaan Bornauw from Wolfsburg €6.00m
Lukas Nmecha from Wolfsburg free transfer
Dominic Calvert-Lewin from Everton free transfer
Facundo Buonanotte from Brighton loan transfer
Total €113.7m
p.s. talking of Leeds I'll go back further in time to the summer 2024 transfer window just to mention a player I really like by mentioning Ao Tanaka who they signed for £2.95 million (€3.5 million) from Fortuna Düsseldorf which is an absolute flipping bargain and yet another example of shopping abroad for value and I'm still really annoyed that Town didn't at least make an attempt to sign Tanaka after he played well for Fortuna Düsseldorf against us in a friendly.
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| World Cup scouting thread on 13:04 - Jun 29 with 919 views | FrimleyBlue |
Martinez from Panama, loved him, his performance reminded me of when I watched Tanaka v town, just one of those players you really want |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 14:40 - Jun 29 with 851 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
| World Cup scouting thread on 22:20 - Jun 25 by grow_our_own |
I was going to say Nilson Angulo, the goal-scorer for Ecuador tonight vs Germany, but then I saw he plays for Sunderland. Their scouting/recruitment was amazing last year. |
Yes Nilson Angulo has looked good but he was snapped up by Sunderland in this years January transfer window when they bought him from Anderlecht in Belgium for €17m and that's yet another good bit of scouting the European leagues for talent by Sunderland! | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 15:09 - Jun 29 with 822 views | witchdoctor |
thought that Johnson..(Celtic) had really good game for Canada last night… |  | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 23:18 - Jun 29 with 724 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
Since he game on for Paraguay in their game against Germany the Parguayan player Mauricio has made a couple of nice passes. He also scored a good penalty in the shootout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
However I think I just like him because it's made me all nostalgic thinking of one of my favourite players of all time Mauricio Taricco. [Post edited 30 Jun 0:21]
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| World Cup scouting thread on 00:43 - Jun 30 with 674 views | WeWereZombies |
Forget Nick Pope and get Orlando Gill in, man of the match tonight. |  |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 03:11 - Jun 30 with 621 views | StNeotsBlue |
| World Cup scouting thread on 12:48 - Jun 29 by Hermann_eats_puffin |
Just following the WC scouting theme it's interesting to read what players the other promoted clubs are being linked with.
Coventry are being linked with a 22 year old Swiss player who is at the WC without playing yet although he did get on the pitch as a sub in their pre WC warm up game with Australia. He has played over 30 games at Eintracht Frankfurt under his belt as well as having played in Europe while on loan at Young Boys.
He's also 6 foot 6 so you'd think he'd hopefully have the physicality to cope with the PL:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Coventry are alleged to be buying him for around €10m and I'm not saying that this is a player that we should be signing but profile wise you'd hope that we're at least looking at these sorts of players as options.
If you look at the profile of players that Sunderland and Leeds bought last season they were almost exclusively from clubs abroad.
I'd love us to target players similar to Sunderland last year and take for example Brian Brobbey who in the 2024-25 season won the Eredivisie Player of the Month award three time. Sunderland signed him when he was 23 for a for a fee of €20m, which could potentially rise to €25m.
They also signed Roefs for about €10.5m and I bet that both Brobbey and Roefs are worth a lot more than that now if they were to sell either of them. Even with Xhaka who they signed for €15m even though he's 33 it looks like they might make a profit on him if they sell him to Chelsea.
What we need to do as a club is get much much better at scouting and finding players who don't cost the earth but if they do well for Town we can make a profit on them. What we need to realise is that we just need players who can keep us up and move us onto the next level and if they then want to move to a s called top 6 club for a big profit then that's fine if we've got the next player waiting on the scouting conveyor belt. Teams such as Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford having been doing this very well for a while now and have been progressing nicely up the PL because of it.
Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and this summer we'll sign so gems from abroad but to date it feels like we're yet to see the real evidence of progress made by our scouting department.
That's where we to date seem to really lag behind clubs like Brighton where Tony Bloom comes from a Finance and Bookmaking background and so he really understands data and statistics which seems part of the key to identifying new player talent. Likewise at Brentford there's Matthew Benham who is from a finance and booking making background and so again is great for Brentford when it comes to the data and analytics side of the club required to identify and recruit new players.
It just seems that for a long time we've been light years behind such clubs (which I know is because of the chronic underinvestment in the Evans years) but I'm never too sure if Ashton for all his good points in having dragged this club out of the malaise of where it was is the same type of person as Matthew Benham and Tony Bloom to help really drive the recruiting side of the club into what is required now. Ashton seems to take on a lot of stuff himself but I really hope he has got in the right people to take our recruitment to the next level because without that we'll get nowhere this season.
Just delving into Sunderlands transfer business last summer they signed the following and lets see if we can follow and do something similar and fingers crossed pull some gems out of the hat.
Habib Diarra from R. Strasbourg €31.50m
Simon Adingra from Brighton €24.40m
Enzo Le Fée from Roma €23.75m
Brian Brobbey from Ajax €20.00m
Chemsdine Talbi from Club Brugge €20.00m
Nilson Angulo from RSC Anderlecht €17.34m
Noah Sadiki from Union SG €17.00m
Granit Xhaka from Leverkusen €15.00m
Nordi Mukiele from PSG €12.00m
Omar Alderete from Getafe €11.60m
Robin Roefs from NEC Nijmegen €10.50m
Jocelin Ta Bi from Maccabi Netanya €4.00m
Melker Ellborg from Malmö €3.45m
Bertrand Traoré from Ajax €2.90m
Reinildo Mandava from Atlético free transfer
Arthur Masuaku from Besiktas free transfer
Marc Guiu from Chelsea loan transfer
Lutsharel Geertruida from Leipzig loan transfer
Total €213.44m
Other than the signing of Adringa from Brighton and the loan signing of Guiu from Chelsea all of their signings were from abroad.
Likewise another promoted club last season Leeds made the majority of their signing from abroad.
Anton Stach from Hoffenheim €20.00m
Noah Okafor from AC Milan €19.00m
Jaka Bijol from Udinese €18.00m
Lucas Perri from Lyon €16.00m
Sean Longstaff from Newcastle €13.80m
Gabriel Gudmundsson from Lille €11.60m
James Justin from Leicester €9.30m
Sebastiaan Bornauw from Wolfsburg €6.00m
Lukas Nmecha from Wolfsburg free transfer
Dominic Calvert-Lewin from Everton free transfer
Facundo Buonanotte from Brighton loan transfer
Total €113.7m
p.s. talking of Leeds I'll go back further in time to the summer 2024 transfer window just to mention a player I really like by mentioning Ao Tanaka who they signed for £2.95 million (€3.5 million) from Fortuna Düsseldorf which is an absolute flipping bargain and yet another example of shopping abroad for value and I'm still really annoyed that Town didn't at least make an attempt to sign Tanaka after he played well for Fortuna Düsseldorf against us in a friendly.
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No idea if what you've just typed out is a load of nonsense or sound info but fair play to you. To type out that would have taken me hours, or is it all ChatGPT stuff? [Post edited 30 Jun 3:19]
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| World Cup scouting thread on 07:22 - Jun 30 with 561 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
| World Cup scouting thread on 03:11 - Jun 30 by StNeotsBlue |
No idea if what you've just typed out is a load of nonsense or sound info but fair play to you. To type out that would have taken me hours, or is it all ChatGPT stuff? [Post edited 30 Jun 3:19]
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Haha, it’s all typed but I’m old so I’ve had plenty of practice and it’s on a keyboard because there’s no way I could be bothered to write that on a phone or tablet screen! | | | |
| World Cup scouting thread on 11:45 - Jun 30 with 484 views | Mullet |
| World Cup scouting thread on 23:18 - Jun 29 by Hermann_eats_puffin |
Since he game on for Paraguay in their game against Germany the Parguayan player Mauricio has made a couple of nice passes. He also scored a good penalty in the shootout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
However I think I just like him because it's made me all nostalgic thinking of one of my favourite players of all time Mauricio Taricco. [Post edited 30 Jun 0:21]
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I do wonder if the relative value of the South American market will be diluted after this tournament.
African players having a great showing but most are already in European football | |
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| World Cup scouting thread on 18:56 - Jun 30 with 391 views | Mullet |
That Nusa looks a good winger. A Norwegian who scores from the wing might help SWE too. | |
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