Developing Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
Identifying talent is one of sport’s most competitive challenges. With a perpetual search for the next star player, the process of talent identification has evolved to become a major industry for clubs and independent intermediaries. This has seen a shift from “luck” to “design” via…
Promoting Your Players with Wyscout
Promoting players to favorable clubs is a challenging task and can often involve many hours spent talking to club representatives around the world to find a suitable fit for the player and club. An intermediaries network is one of its most important assets but forging…
Using Benchmarking to Monitor Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
In part 2 of our blog series on how the Wyscout platform can help intermediaries to become more efficient and more effective in their role we look at the role of data when monitoring player performance. Pt. 1: Using Video and Stats to Monitoring Your…
Using Video and Stats to Monitor Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
Negotiating and agreeing player transfers is a complex and hugely competitive business. Agencies and intermediaries who understand and implement a greater application of video and data are speaking in the new language of football, allowing them to connect the right player to the right club…
Totti Turns His Hand to the Scouting Game
After reaching immortality in a legendary career with AS Roma and the Azzurri, Francesco Totti has now turned his hand to another area of the beautiful game. — — Francesco Totti played a glittering career on a full international scale. As one of the world’s…
Players no longer third-parties: everything you need to know
On 8 May 2019, FIFA published its 2019 Edition of the “Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players” (“the FIFA Regulations” or “FIFA RSTP”) which, having entered into force on 1 June 2019¹, amended the definition of ‘third-party’ in relation to art. 18-ter of…
Wyscout Talks: ProEleven
Among all type of professionals working in the football world, one of the less known, more misunderstood and less described – if not from a very superficial point of view – is the football agent. We are talking about a critical role of the Beautiful…
Transfers and Agents regulations: FIFA reform’s proposal explained
Introduction The present article examines more in-depth the arguments discussed at the roundtable on “The FIFA reform proposals on transfer and agents regulations: latest developments and discussion” held at the 2018 Wyscout Forum at the Johann Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, moderated by the author of this…
5 rules (with examples) you must not forget when you are closing a new transfer deal
Many of the readers of this blog are active protagonists of the football transfer market that opened last week in several countries. As our readers thus know, a transfer of a football player is a complex transaction, which requires the perfect combination of multiple different…