Stories from the future of football.
For 12 years, SCOUTED has been at the cutting edge of football. Founded as a blog by a handful of students and friends, we've become a respected editorial voice and have helped fans, clubs and agencies across the world discover football's next great talent.
Now, we're trying something new.
SCOUTED is not a normal online newsletter or website. We're tired of how quickly the internet moves, how fast discourse has become and, as a totally independent and employee-owned business, we simply don't have the resources to compete for your attention all the time.
Instead, we drop one digital magazine every four-to-six weeks, delivered straight to your email inbox. These Volumes are yours to download and keep, forever. Each is themed around a different cover star - the players we think will define football's future. They're full of new players to discover, Archetypes to unpack, and stories to enjoy. They're bespokely designed in-house, by hand. And they offer somewhere to disconnect from all the noise, to slow down, and really engage with a great narrative - or discover the next global star.
"SCOUTED has been one of the resources for the FC Porto scouting team in recent years. Their work challenges our approach to recruitment and inspires new scouting practices."
Paulo Araujo, Director of Scouting at FC Porto
Free subscribers get a sample story, and one analysis newsletter a month.
Paid subscribers get every Volume as soon as it's released, early cover reveals and behind-the-scenes blogs, our full archive of players and analysis and, of course, a beautiful magazine on every launch day, theirs to keep.
So why wait? Join them : grab yourself a Volume and get reading. The button below will unlock everything for £2.
Meet the team
Unlike most premium football outlets, SCOUTED isn’t owned by a conglomerate, or bankrolled by a venture capitalist. We’re just a group of guys who met as students and tried to build something cool.
Everything we make goes straight back into the magazine’s pockets so we can keep SCOUTED alive. No shareholder dividends, no parent company leeching profits to buy second houses: just us, some writers making a modest living.
Tom Curren / Tom is the founder of SCOUTED. He is a writer and editor living in London and interested in bridging the gap between analysis and narrative. He acts as Creative Director on every Volume.
Llew Davies / Llew is a scout with a history of spotting top talent. Joe dubbed him the ‘Michael Burry of scouting’ and it stuck. This guy has a database of notes on every talent from every corner of the globe. He frequently opens that vault for SCOUTED readers.
Jake Entwistle / Jake joined SCOUTED in 2024 after eight years of leading Squawka’s social efforts. He is the maestro behind Archetypes, his project to redefine football's meta. He scours stats to find you - and clubs - the next big thing.
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