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SCOUTED is the best way to discover the next generation of football talent.

A totally independent, employee-owned and reader-supported publication, we’ve been the leading voice in youth football journalism since 2014.

We believe the ad economy has irreparably damaged the state of football writing and journalism on the internet - so we don’t do that stuff. Instead, we ask readers to pay a small fee for access to our magazine.

In return, you get to spot the next big thing before the rest of the world wakes up.

Oh yeah, and you get a trio of premium newsletters every single week:

Monday Night SCOUTED, with Jake Entwistle, blends stats and storytelling to peel back the layers of European football. Every Monday evening, Jake scours fixtures, stats and the SCOUTED database to uncover the secrets and stories woven by another weekend of games.

SCOUT NOTES, with Llew Davies, is the undisputed best way to discover the next generation of footballers. A scout for ten years, Llew is one of the leading voices in discovering the next generation. Every week, he keeps you up-to-date with the stories and players he's most excited about - ensuring you stay well ahead of the game.

THE SHORTLIST, with Tom Curren, is a free weekly newsletter collating all the big stories from around the world of scouting and recruitment - so you never miss a beat.

Every newsletter is delivered straight to your inbox, but this is not spam. Just three beautifully detailed and jam-packed emails a week, so you can take your time. We believe there's no point paying for football media you can't keep up with.

Of course, you don't just get three newsletters. You also get access to our massive back catalogue of stories, profiles, analyses, exclusives, and most importantly, players. So when your club is linked to a wonderkid you've never heard of, you'll know where to come.

SCOUTED is for those who want to detach from the madness of social media and take their time with an engrossing story or idea; to discover the next big thing before the rest of the world. And, of course, look really smart in front of their mates at the pub.

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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.

Starting

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 writes THE SHORTLIST, provides creative direction for the rest of the magazine, and spends most of his time fixing the typos arising from Llew's 'non-temporal' writing style. Don't ask.

Llew Davies / Llew is a writer, analyst and scout with a history of spotting top talent. Joe dubbed him the ‘Michael Burry of scouting’ and it stuck. Seriously, this guy has a database of notes on every talent from every corner of the globe, it’s concerning. He frequently opens that vault for SCOUTED readers. He’s also our Design Lead.

Jake Entwistle / Jake joined SCOUTED in 2024 after eight years of leading Squawka’s social efforts. He is the maestro behind Monday Night SCOUTED, our popular newsletter that drops - you guessed it - every Monday. He loves spotting stats nobody else does and scouring the globe for the next big thing.

On the bench

Phil Costa / Phil is a professional podcaster with FootballVision, ArsenalVision and Arseblog. He was once a Commercial Editor with OneFootball, and has a background in football journalism. He’s always looking for SCOUTED’s next big scoop.

Joe Donnohue / Joe is a journalist with the Yorkshire Evening Post and covers Leeds United professionally. He moonlights as the smooth voice of SCOUTED’s podcast and frequently digs out hot stories and features as our man on the ground. And what a man he is.

Stephen Ganavas / Stephen is a SCOUTED co-founder and served as Analysis Editor for nine years. In 2024, his work with SCOUTED had him headhunted by one of Europe's biggest clubs, and he left us to pursue a career as a professional scout. He is now somewhere on the continent, at a football game you're probably watching, taking notes and shaping the future of the game.

So that’s us! Just a bunch of friends, scouts and journalists and analysts, half of whom contribute to SCOUTED between full-time gigs. We're not sure how we got here, but we're pretty glad we did.

Of course SCOUTED has also been built, piece by piece, by the hands of literally hundreds of freelance writers, analysts and artists - if you've contributed to this magazine over the course of the last decade, thank you.