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Joel A. Adejola

Writing from the Corner – Football.

📍 USA http://capedcorners.substack.com

Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections

This piece shows how a lightweight, falsifiable scouting framework flagged Álvaro Fernández Carreras early and held up through his 2025 jump to Real Madrid. The approach centers on portable traits, role elasticity, improvement edges. It travels across leagues and coaches and is designed to plug into a club’s identification

What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?

What happens if you got outsiders in the sporting world yet experts in their own fields thinking about sport at large?

Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers

Notes from Bayern vs Chelsea - September 2025 in the Champions League

Epistemic Certainty in Sports

This essay poses a hypothetical and offers solution-frames to discuss epistemic certainty in scouting and recruitment.

10 Reasons You Got McTominay so Wrong

And how reading this blog could have prevented that.

Justified True Belief

Is anything consequential in sports?

Precision Play: Why Mechanics Matter

This essay argues that mechanics is the single most important predictor of skill transfer between footballing environments – and suggests a roadmap to understanding it.

How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players

And why those who can run and carry aggression into subsequent duels are in high-demand.

There Are No Superstars Left, Only Entertainers

and it's obscuring the beautiful game.

Projections: Mali U-17's Sékou Koné

Mali U-17's Sekou Kone has joined Manchester United from Guidars FC. The writer discusses their 9-month old projection on the starlet who, at that time, took the U-17 World Cup by storm.