Josh Doig and Aaron Hickey have been rated as two of the 200 most enjoyable younger gamers in world soccer by the CIES Soccer Observatory.
The younger Scottish pair have each shot to stardom since swapping the SPFL for Serie A with Hickey leaving Hearts for Bologna in 2020 earlier than incomes a £14m transfer to Premier League facet Brentford lower than two years later. Doig, in the meantime, seems to be to be on the same trajectory and will financial institution Hibs vital money if his performances for Hellas Verona proceed with Juventus and Inter among the many groups linked with a serious transfer.
The CIES is a French sports activities analysis organisation who routinely publish detailed research on soccer and their newest month-to-month report ranks 200 of probably the most promising younger abilities into the world. It is cut up into 20 classes of ten gamers every - starting from goalkeeper and defensive centre-back proper as much as shot-oriented centre-forward.
Regardless of that includes nearly solely at right-back for Brentford, Hickey ranks extremely within the "two-way left-back" class - and is rated because the third most promising behind PSG's Nuno Mendes and Udinese's Future Ugodie. Doig, in the meantime, is ranked because the sixth most promising "attacking left-back" on the planet.
The CIES research makes use of the metric of "expertise capital," which they describe as "combining enjoying time, the aggressive degree of matches performed and outcomes." They declare it's a confirmed and efficient methodology of figuring out high-potential gamers and that definitely appears to bode effectively for 2 of Scottish soccer's brightest long-term prospects.
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