[Albion] Casper Nilsson

[AZ Gull]

Just as a matter of interest, how do we find out about a 16-year old at Malmo? Do we have scouts in every European country? Do we monitor press reports of every youth game played in the world? Does someone from Malmo recommend him to teams across Europe? It does intrigue me how clubs pick up kids so young.

I'm sure our scouting network is pretty wide, yes. We have signed a lot of Scandinavian youngsters over the last few years so we obviously have a significant presence in that area, but I'm sure if a lad shows promise, even as early as 9 or 10, he will be widely known about by most professional clubs.

At a first-team level, shortly after we had signed Izquierdo there was an article in the Argus saying that we had "looked at" over 1,000 strikers; the number for wide players was 874. 300 player reports are compiled every week.

Also, our age-teams often play in tournaments around Europe. An U-16/U-15 squad typically plays in the Rey Cup in Iceland every July; in 2019-20 our U15s/U-14s have been to Spain, an U-14/U-13 squad went to Finland and so on. Obviously such tournaments will give an opportunity to see other young players from various club sides and academies across the continent - I'm sure we don't let such information go to waste.

 

[Swansman]

I'm sure our scouting network is pretty wide, yes. We have signed a lot of Scandinavian youngsters over the last few years so we obviously have a significant presence in that area, but I'm sure if a lad shows promise, even as early as 9 or 10, he will be widely known about by most professional clubs.

At a first-team level, shortly after we had signed Izquierdo there was an article in the Argus saying that we had "looked at" over 1,000 strikers; the number for wide players was 874. 300 player reports are compiled every week.

Also, our age-teams often play in tournaments around Europe. An U-16/U-15 squad typically plays in the Rey Cup in Iceland every July; in 2019-20 our U15s/U-14s have been to Spain, an U-14/U-13 squad went to Finland and so on. Obviously such tournaments will give an opportunity to see other young players from various club sides and academies across the continent - I'm sure we don't let such information go to waste.

This seems to be the Scandinavia guy:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-l-whale-38bb1066/?originalSubdomain=se

 

[albionalex]

Just as a matter of interest, how do we find out about a 16-year old at Malmo? Do we have scouts in every European country? Do we monitor press reports of every youth game played in the world? Does someone from Malmo recommend him to teams across Europe? It does intrigue me how clubs pick up kids so young.

Agents.

 

[AZ Gull]

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[Swansman]

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Hopefully will do well once Lamptey is sold for £1.4b to Barcelona in 2024

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

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Thank goodness that one of them is a centre back. You can never have enough centre backs.

When Dunk leaves we'll be delighted to have collected so many young centre backs, increases the odds that one of them is good enough to replace Lewis.

 

[AZ Gull]

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By the way, Naylor has his facts wrong - Nilsson's birthday is in November and he won't be 17 until then.

As previously mentioned, he'll begin life with Albion as a 1st-year scholar in 2020-21 (one of 11).

 

[vagabond]

CB or GTFO

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Dendoncker is the brother of the guy at Wolves. Seems to have chosen us over them, Celtic, Inter and Roma. How times have changed!

https://futaa.com/article/209731/le...ars-to-choose-brighton-over-celtic-and-wolves

 

[Goldstone1976]

Dendoncker is the brother of the guy at Wolves. Seems to have chosen us over them, Celtic, Inter and Roma. How times have changed!

https://futaa.com/article/209731/le...ars-to-choose-brighton-over-celtic-and-wolves

Well, neither Glasgow nor Italy have Donatello. Easy decision.

 

[Turkey]

Pictured on his Instagram story training with us today: https://www.instagram.com/caspernilsson_/

 

[Medwayseagull]

Full list of all the new scholars on the club web-site now.

 

[Biffer]

Deal now confirmed.

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[Springal]

Terrible dress sense

 

[The Fits]

Terrible dress sense

C'mon. That's adorable!