The small Swedish club who made Gyokeres, Kulusevski & Bergvall

"We don't have a lot of people in the stands, but we surely have a lot of scouts," explains Erik Nathorst Windahl, academy manager at Brommapojkarna. "In some games, mainly in the academy, it's the mums, dads... and then scouts."

That is because Swedish top-flight outfit Brommapojkarna, while relatively unknown outside of their own country, have become a hotbed for young talent.

Notable alumni include Tottenham Hotspur pair Lucas Bergvall and Dejan Kulusevski, as well as Borussia Dortmund's Daniel Svensson.

But the current highest-profile former BP youngster is Viktor Gyokeres, the 27-year-old Swedish striker who is on the verge of joining Arsenal from Sporting CP in a £63.5m deal.

Gyokeres, however, was not always regarded as one of Sweden's brightest prospects, with the forward playing for regional side IFK Aspudden-Tellus until the age of 15, when he joined BP.

Nathorst Windahl, who has worked for BP since 2009 and became academy manager in 2021, admits: "It's really rare that a player can be at a smaller club [until that age] and then go to a big academy.

"Maybe he would have been even better if he came to us earlier than he did. But on the other hand, he was the top scorer and got all the passes when he played in his club.

"I can't find a player now who is in our national team or has been in our club that has been in a smaller club for so long and then goes to an academy, so actually it's unique.

"He was a late bloomer. There were a lot of boys born in 1998 in Sweden that had a higher rank than him."