Articles & notes.
Scouting reports, player analysis, football business writing, and the odd longer read. Updated as the work happens.
Chasing Sundowns
Right, for the first time in maybe years, the question doesn't feel premature: are we watching the beginning of the end of Sundowns' stranglehold on South African football?
Read →Staff Scouting — Siviwe Magidigidi (Siwelele)
A quote from one of my favourite Overlap episodes has been stuck in my head while watching Siviwe Magidigidi this season: 'I see people talk about a striker, saying he's complete. Can you press? If you can't, you are not...'
Read →Staff Scouting — Karl Etta Eyong (Levante)
This blog has been untouched in my drafts for over 2 months. Every time I opened it, I added a new screenshot, another clip, another note about African pathways, then closed the tab again - I never quite had enough juice...
Read →Building Value: Sporting Charleroi
At the time of writing, I was applying for a role involving Royal Charleroi, and like anything, before any conversation or drawing arrows on slides, there's a basic first step I apply to everything I do – understand what...
Read →African Football Landscape
Originally shared July 2025 via LinkedIn
Read →Scouting in Gambia
Originally shared May 2025 via LinkedIn
Staff Scouting: El Hadji Seck (Jong KAA Gent)
One I've been meaning to publish:
Building Value: RAAL La Louvière
April 2025. I was looking around Belgian football clubs hoping to connect with professionals across the industry. During that period, one club in particular caught my attention. I had been loosely following their perform...
Read →Building: Standard de Liège
Last year, A good friend of mine Lance Davids and I made the trip to Sclessin. Standard Liège vs a side I've honestly forgotten in the Jupiler Pro League. There, what stuck with me wasn't the result, it was the atmospher...
Read →Staff Scouting: Joseph Opoku & SV Zulte Waregem
Back after a busy weekend diving back into club football, I managed to make my way to two matches. One: David Huberts first fixture after leaving OHL Leuven for Brussels based, Union Saint Gilloise. Two: Nationale 1 Cros...
Read →Staff Scouting: Oumar Diouf
Oumar Diouf keeps popping up in the Challenger Pro League scoring charts alongside Thierry Ambrose at Kortrijk. Six goals each at the point I started watching him seriously. The way those numbers are distributed tells you more than the headline figure.
Read →Risk is Unavoidable
There's a version of football analysis that treats uncertainty as the enemy. Build better models, watch more games, talk to more people — reduce the risk. That's not wrong, but it's incomplete in a way that actually matters.
Read →Bangoura: Raising the Bar
There's a version of this profile — quick, direct, strong on the ball — that arrives in Belgium and disappears into a system. Bangoura hasn't done that. What he's doing instead is more interesting.
Read →Buy the Dip or Cash Out: Lyle Foster
Lyle Foster is 24, South African, and operating in the Premier League with a health history that changes the usual calculus. This is an attempt to work out what he's actually worth right now — and to whom.
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