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Founder, PlayerScout

Grantley Baugh is the founder of PlayerScout, a youth sport development platform helping players, parents and coaches better understand the areas that shape long-term development. His work focuses on player mindset, performance, development environments and helping more young people stay in sport.

Areas of expertise

  • Youth sport development
  • Player mindset and confidence
  • Player development environments
  • Sports marketing and communications
  • Youth sport participation and retention

Experience

Grantley has worked across professional and grassroots sport, including experience with Reading FC and Reading FC Women, and projects involving the Premier League, The FA and leading sports and consumer brands. He founded PlayerScout to give young players and the adults around them practical support beyond sport-specific coaching, covering mindset, physical development, nutrition and the wider development pathway.

Published articles

  • PFSA Level 1 – Talent Identification Course Review

    PFSA Level 1 – Talent Identification Course Review

    Are you interested in a career as a professional football scout? Or just intrigued to know more about how scouts work and what they look for in a player? If so, then the Professional Football Scouts Association (PFSA) Level 1 – Talent Identification in Football course is the perfect solution. Want to know the best…

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  • Football Agent Interview – Cesare Marchetti

    Football Agent Interview – Cesare Marchetti

    With all the press (good and bad) about football agent, we decided to get the inside information from football agent Cesare Marchetti on the inner workings of the agency world. Cesare is the managing director of top-level professional football agency M.S.M Football ltd. Football Agent Interview – Cesare Marchetti What percentage of football agents would…

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  • The 6 Most Powerful Football Agents In the World

    The 6 Most Powerful Football Agents In the World

    Who is the most powerful football agent in the world? They are the men that make football happen, the men behind the scenes, the men many coaches and chairpersons hate. They are always seen wearing shiny shoes and sleek suits and are known for a 10% cut of every contract signed for a sponsor or…

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  • How to Become a Football Agent

    How to Become a Football Agent

    In modern football, we keep seeing big deals and contracts being signed by players and football clubs. Many wonder how a deal worth tens or hundreds of millions pounds is secured. But with the help of football agents, such deals can be secured and seen through. Football agents search, negotiate and secure contracts for their…

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