Some of the best players in the game are on pitches nobody from the first-team office will ever visit.The clips are online. The numbers are everywhere. Almost every club can open the same file.What they still do not have is someone they trust to look at that file, go and watch the boy, and tell them whether he fits their context.
Scouts who know that pitch — the surface, the level, the boy when it gets ugly — still have no clean way to put that watch in front of a club or an agent who would act on it.
That is the gap.Same data. Different eyes. A decision you can stand over.