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Richard Koné Scout Report At QPR & Ezequiel ‘Equi’ Fernández Scout Report At Al-Qadsiah 2025/2026
Today, we have a player analysis article on Richard Koné at QPR in 2025/2026 and one on Ezequiel 'Equi' Fernández at Al-Qadsiah.
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In English football, the academy pathway has long been seen as the most reliable conveyor belt to the professional game.
From as young as five, players are placed into highly structured environments.
They are drilled in technical repetition and prepared for the demands of the senior game.
However, some of the most interesting stories emerge not from this polished system, but from its margins.
Consider Michail Antonio, who once juggled part-time football at Tooting & Mitcham before becoming West Ham’s all-time Premier League top scorer.
Or Jamie Vardy, who spent four years at Stocksbridge Park Steels before firing Leicester City to a Premier League title and becoming a member of the ‘100 club’.
Their journeys remind us that football education can take many forms, some defined by academy polish and others by non-league.
It is within this latter narrative that Richard Koné now steps forward.
In fewer than six years, he has risen from the obscurity of non-league football to the EFL Championship, where he has signed for Queens Park Rangers.
His arrival is not just a story of perseverance but also raises tactical questions: How does a player made outside the academy system fit into the high-demand environment of the EFL?
More specifically, how might Julien Stéphan use his raw attributes and unconventional background within QPR’s game model?
A bullfighter keeps waiting for his arrival in Europe, while he continues making merits in the Middle East.
Ezequiel ‘Equi’ Fernández is one of the most impactful Argentinian players to have emerged in recent times.
Making it to Boca Juniors first team at the same time as Valentín Barco, both Xeneize youngsters led the club to the 2023 Copa Libertadores final, which they ultimately lost 2-1 to Fluminense.
After that initial arrival into the first team, Equi became indispensable to Diego Martínez during the first semester of 2024.
As a structural piece of Boca Juniors, and as if he were a time machine, he brought back some of the most distinctive elements of Rioplatense holding midfielders from the golden age of Argentine football.
Ezequiel Fernández is a full ‘centro-jas’; a bullfighter with a flexible waist more typical of an attacker, strong use of both feet, and an overwhelming personality to impact the whole field.
Fernández surprisingly took his first step outside Argentina with Al-Qadsiah in Saudi Arabia.
Real Sociedad and Bayer Leverkusen showed interest in the player in this transfer market.
He has also had approaches from the Argentine National Team.
Called up by Lionel Scaloni in the FIFA international window for South American Qualifiers in September 2024, he showed a great level at the Olympic Games as a starting holding midfielder.
In this Ezequiel Fernández player analysis and scout report, we will examine Fernández’s immense talent and why there’s been UEFA Champions League interest in the 23-year-old.
We will also look at his impact for Boca Juniors in two of the most important matches he has played so far: the Copa Libertadores final and a Superclásico against River Plate.
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