https://x.com/scoutedftbl/status/1882853053369626857?s=08
If Nypan's this good - then Wow!!
What does it say? I can only read the first Tweet.
This is the full text.
Having read it a couple of times one thing jumps out. NORWEGIAN MEATBALL
The Chosen One: Sverre Halseth Nypan.
A thread of insights from recent SCOUT Notes and the latest @SkillCorner epic to explain why Europe's elite are battling for his signature.
This is all you need to know about the biggest prospect in Scandinavian football.
A lot has been expected of Nypan from an early age. He was playing against fully-grown men for Rosenborg’s B team as a 14-year-old before becoming one of the UEFA Youth League’s youngest-ever debutants a couple of months later. Those achievements were swiftly followed by senior recognition: an Eliteserien debut at 15 years old, a full season with the first team in 2023, and a breakout campaign in 2024. He had played over 60 first-team games before turning 18.
The first thing that strikes you is how big he is. He isn’t some gangly freak of nature but is a very solid size, especially for someone that celebrated their 18th birthday last month. He is deceivingly quick and generally mobile.
Why are Europe’s biggest clubs after him? Because he’s played a lot of high-level football from a young age for starters; that’s always a good tell. He is also a dynamic midfielder that can travel between both boxes, slip past pressure, facilitate in attack, and pop up in the box. He’s a bit of a do-it-aller.
Data shows how Nypan stacks up against 121 Eliteserien and Allsvenskan midfielders for running, both in Distance and Intensity.
He ranks at the average for the former but is well above the median for the speed of that running. In basic terms? He runs about the same as most, but runs harder than most.
Nypan runs about 1.1km a game at over 20km/h. That means roughly 12% of his total distance covered is done at High Intensity, ranking him 12th of 121 midfielders across Norway and Sweden in the metric.
Nypan is also one of the faster midfielders in terms of peak speed in Scandinavia – as shown by @SkillCorner's PSV-99 metric in the data below.
It’s something that is pretty easy to pick up on when you watch him driving between the boxes; he possesses a turn of pace which enables him to separate from opponents as a break in attack or catch up player as he recovers in defence.
But peak speed is only part of the picture when it comes to a player’s athletic profile. Central midfield is just as much (if not more) about short-area quickness, bursting to break away or get back goalside.
Viewing Nypan through the lens of @SkillCorner's new Explosive Accelerations is impressive. Even more so when you consider he was 17 years old when he generated this sample.
He’s probably far from his final form as an athlete.
Now let’s have a look at his skillset when his team has possession…
Off-ball movement is one of the big aspects of Nypan’s game and directly ties into his athletic capabilities. This @SkillCorner graph shows that the ranks comfortably above the average for the frequency, danger and production of his off-ball runs.
He makes a lot of runs, a lot of those runs are dangerous and they result in shots and goals for his team.
Midfielders that can run will always carry high value – off-ball movement is a simple but significant advantage for a player that operates in the middle of the pitch to possess – and midfielders that can generate shooting opportunities with said movement should be too.
A 90th percentile ranking for Runs Ahead of the Ball is particularly interesting because it leans into the description of Nypan as a ‘developing midfielder’.
Then you have the Cross Receiver Runs, which highlights his ability to get into the box in goal-scoring positions. His eight league goals in the 2024 season is a testament to that, as well as an improvement on an impressive five from last year.
Nypan is especially good at progressing play through midfield; an example of our developing midfielder archetype. He does it with nifty dribbles to slip tackles, clever positioning to find angles, quick one-twos, plus non-stop selfless runs ahead of the ball – and the data backs it up.
It is no surprise to see that almost every top-five league club would love to get him, let alone the bigger clubs in the mid-tier leagues.
Wherever he goes, Sverre Halseth Nypan has a big future to look forward to. Now you know why.