Our Team
The Transfer Flow is not just another football channel.
WE ARE NICHE
data-led analysis focusing on player transfers and manager hiring and firing.
WE HAVE AUTHORITY
our team works in football, with experienced transfer window analysts who've been inside the industry, not just watching from outside.
WE HAVE INFLUENCE
educating the data analytics space and bringing insight to those enthusiasts who want to look behind the scenes of the industry.
Ted Knutson
Founder & CEO
Exited founder and CEO of StatsBomb and former Head of Recruitment at Brentford, Ted has spent his career turning data into decisions clubs use. He's widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in football analytics globally, having helped build the infrastructure now powering recruitment departments at the top level of the game. These days he brings that same rigour - and a healthy disregard for conventional wisdom - to The Transfer Flow.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Newsletter and Podcast, Variance Betting Newsletter
Favourite Team: Arsenal
Kim McCauley
Player Recruitment, Crux
Kim built Angel City FC's analytics department from scratch, navigating the NCAA draft and NWSL expansion draft along the way.
Her career bridges football journalism and applied club analytics - a dual fluency that's rare to find in one person, and even rarer to find explained this clearly.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Newsletter
Favourite Team: Spurs
Neel Shelat
Analyst & Contributor
Neel is a freelance journalist and analyst whose byline has turned up everywhere from Al Jazeera and Forbes to Analytics FC, FotMob, World Soccer, and The Blizzard. He covers the game through an analytical lens around the globe. If there’s a football match on, you best believe he is watching.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Newsletter and Podcast
Mohamed Mohamed
Journalist & Contributor
A freelance journalist covering the analytical and tactical sides of the game, Mohamed's work has been featured by ESPN, The Athletic, The Ringer, and Analytics FC.
If it's happening in the data-driven corner of football media, chances are he's already written about it.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Newsletter
Patrick Van Straaten
Podcast Host
Patrick made his name at Football Daily, one of football's most-watched content platforms, before bringing his interviewing chops and encyclopaedic transfer knowledge to The Transfer Flow.
He's the voice steering the conversation; equal parts sharp questioning and genuine enthusiasm for the game.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Podcast
Favourite Team: Arsenal
Hayden Van Brewer
Analyst & Contributor
Hayden has spent his career in the recruitment trenches, previously as Data and Analytics Manager at Austin FC, using data to drive recruitment, match strategy, and player evaluation. His CV also includes stints across MLS and EFL clubs - FC Cincinnati and Fleetwood Town among them - giving him a rare view of talent identification on both sides of the Atlantic. Currently Hayden is Customer Solutions Manager at SkillCorner.
Contributes to: The Transfer Flow Podcast
Favourite Team: Ajax
