Sevilla interest in Robbie Ure adds weight to SFA 'Made In Scotland?' forum in St Andrews
Robbie Ure, a former Rangers academy striker now playing for IK Sirius in Sweden, has attracted interest from Sevilla for close to £8m and his form will be one of the talking points as the Scottish Football Association prepares its 'Made In Scotland?' forum with club owners and chief executives in St Andrews next month.
Ure made his Rangers debut as an 18-year-old in a League Cup tie against Queen of the South in August 2022 and then appeared twice more that season, playing one minute apiece in Premiership matches against St Mirren in November and Hibs in May. With limited first-team opportunities at Rangers, where the club spent £6m on Danilo (cumulative cost to date about £10m including wages) and £3.5m on Sam Lammers (more than £4m including salary), Ure moved to Anderlecht in Belgium and subsequently to IK Sirius in Sweden.
At 22, Ure is on a run of 15 goals in 15 games for IK Sirius, including 10 strikes in his last six matches, and news emerged on Sunday that Sevilla are interested in a move for close to £8m. That update arrived on the same day Rangers lost 2-1 at home to Hibs, a timing the article notes will do little to lift the mood among supporters given Ure's progress after leaving Ibrox.
The SFA has described the summit as "critically important" and billed the presentation 'Made In Scotland?'. The session, the organisation says, will be a plea to Scotland's senior clubs — mostly Premiership sides — to review their development pathways and offer more first-team chances to young Scottish players; the Ure case is presented in the article as an example that could be used to illustrate the point.
Early season figures cited in the article underline the scale of the issue: across the opening two rounds of the Premiership only 31% of players who featured were Scottish, and just 5% were Scots aged 21 or under, while 46 different nationalities were represented. Individually, Dundee United used just one Scottish player, Dylan Tait, in their two matches to date.
The piece lists numerous young Scots who have moved to clubs in England and elsewhere — Kai Hutchison (Everton); Dara Jikiemi (Liverpool) and Daniel Cummings (West Ham) from Celtic; Cameron Scott (Burnley) and Chris Eadie (Sheffield United) from Rangers; Boyd Fraser (Nottingham Forest) and Keir McMeekin (Man City) from Hearts; Ben Vickery (Man City) and Josh Landers (West Ham) from Hibs — and it notes multiple reasons for departures, with bigger money and lack of first-team opportunity both cited as factors.
The Scottish FA's previous efforts are recorded in two reports authored by Andy Gould and Chris Docherty: a 114-page Transition report published in August 2024 and a 133-page follow-up in October 2025. According to the article, those documents compiled global data, case studies and interviews to argue the footballing and financial logic of giving academy players more senior minutes, but their principal recommendations largely failed to change practice; Gould and Docherty no longer work at Hampden.
Ian Maxwell, the SFA chief executive, and chief football officer Craig Mulholland will lead the 'Made In Scotland?' presentation to the owners and chief executives of Scotland's senior clubs in St Andrews next month, the confirmed next step set out in the article.
