'Iceman', 'The Robot', 'The New Modric' - 24 new players to watch at Euro 2024

It is 20 years since Wayne Rooney announced himself arsenic a world talent connected nan world shape astatine Euro 2004, but who will beryllium nan breakout stars of this summer's European Championship?

Not galore of nan 622 players who could characteristic successful Germany tin beryllium classed arsenic full unknowns, but are immoderate of them world-beaters successful nan making?

Here, BBC Sport's TV and power Euro 2024 commentators prime 24, from extracurricular nan Premier League and Scottish Premiership, who are worthy watching retired for this summer.

Steve Wilson: The up-and-coming look of Croatian shot has inevitably been dubbed 'The Next Modric' - good of people he has!

Title winners Dinamo Zagreb will not beryllium capable to clasp connected to him overmuch longer aft an awesome Under-21s Euros successful 2023, followed by his champion goalscoring play to date. Juventus and Arsenal are connected his case, and they won't beryllium nan only ones.

Vicki Sparks: Zaire-Emery is already utilized to shouldering work arsenic 1 of Paris St-Germain’s stand-out performers this play arsenic they won nan French double. That earned him some nan UNFP Young Player of nan Year Award (the French balanced of PFA Young Player of nan Year) and a caller statement until 2029.

Game clip will beryllium nan mobility present because nan France midfield oozes value and experience, but Zaire-Emery is simply a existent talent and, having been fixed support to hold his schoolhouse exams until September, he will dream Didier Deschamps gives him a chance to show what he tin do connected nan large stage.

Radio 5 Live shot analogous John Murray: Is location a imaginable threat for England lurking successful their 3rd group match?

Sesko is simply a 21-year-old, 6ft 5in striker who Arsenal fans will beryllium alert of because location is overmuch talk of a £50m-plus transfer from RB Leipzig.

He’s taken nan well-trodden way from Red Bull Salzburg (with a indebtedness astatine Liefering) to Leipzig, and nan goals person kept flowing. He scored 18 goals for Salzburg successful 2022-23 and almost equalled that for Leipzig past season.

Steve Wilson: Sesko is becoming 1 of nan astir sought-after players of nan summertime of 2024. He could soon rival Zlatko Zahovic arsenic nan champion Slovenia outfield subordinate of each time.

Robyn Cowen: As good arsenic a sanction pinch pleasing alliteration, Brobbey had a coming-of-age play pinch a struggling Ajax side, scoring 22 goals successful each competitions. In a run successful which nan Dutch giants spent astir of nan clip successful nan little reaches of nan table, his contributions led them to a semi-respectable 5th spot decorativeness successful nan Eredivisie.

Brobbey only had a azygous elder headdress to his sanction earlier his action for nan Dutch squad, but he's already tasted occurrence connected nan world stage, winning back-to-back Under-17 European Championships successful 2018 and 2019.

Alistair Bruce-Ball: One of 2 21-year-olds successful nan Germany squad who are already beautiful good known to English audiences from their exploits successful nine football.

Wirtz has dazzled arsenic a imaginative unit successful Xabi Alonso's all-conquering Leverkusen squad and will beryllium itching to do nan aforesaid for Germany, having missed nan World Cup successful Qatar pinch a knee injury.

He's started 7 of nan 8 games since Julian Nagelsmann took complaint past year, chiefly connected nan near of an attacking 3 successful a 4-2-3-1 pinch Jamal Musiala connected nan different flank.

Steve Wilson: Considered by galore to beryllium nan outstanding young goalkeeper successful European football.

Mamardashvili has go first prime for his country, playing their past 13 competitory internationals, and has proved to beryllium a bargain for Valencia who paid Dinamo Tbilisi little than 1m euro to motion him successful 2022 - he could easy costs 50 times that now.

Steve Wilson: Moved to PSV Eindhoven arsenic a 16-year-old from Anderlecht and has excelled successful PSV’s title-winning run pinch 16 goals and 14 assists.

Comparisons pinch chap Belgium winger Jeremy Doku are inevitable, though he prefers to play connected nan other flank. Last summertime he was said to beryllium wanted by Brentford and Burnley, this twelvemonth it's Bayern, Arsenal and Liverpool - it whitethorn beryllium harder for PSV to opportunity no.

Steve Wilson: A move and inventive attacking midfielder who is considered to beryllium comfortably nan champion Ukrainian subordinate still playing successful war-torn Ukraine.

Shakhtar Donetsk rejected a large Napoli bid successful January, but Sudakov says it's clip to get his family distant from nan warfare and is definite to get his wish - perchance to London arsenic he has been linked to Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea.

Alistair Bruce-Ball: Musiala is nan different young Germany prima who I americium looking guardant to watching this summer. Like Wirtz, he brings speed, skill, invention and a youthful verve.

Remarkably, Musiala, who grew up successful London and represented England up to under-21 level, is already astatine his 3rd awesome tourney for Germany having first dipped his toed successful nan h2o arsenic an 18-year-old astatine Euro 2020. That will surely bring pinch it a assurance that will only beryllium boosted successful beforehand of fervent location support if Germany commencement well.

Steve Wilson: Neves hardly missed a infinitesimal of Benfica’s season, and played each 2nd of their 12-game European campaign.

He sewage his chance erstwhile Enzo Fernandez near Lisbon for Chelsea successful 2023 - Benfica see Neves to beryllium an upgrade and are talking upwards of £80m to return him away. If he has a bully Euros location could good beryllium a queue of clubs knocking astatine supplier Jorge Mendes’ door.

John Murray: Pavlovic has spent 2 seasons astatine Red Bull Salzburg aft they signed him from Monaco.

From nan no-nonsense school, he's apt to commencement connected nan near broadside of Serbia's three-man cardinal defence erstwhile they look England connected Sunday.

Steve Wilson: Nicknamed 'The Austrian Wall', Querfeld has go a sparkling ray astatine nan backmost for Rapid Vienna complete nan past 2 seasons, and made his world debut successful March.

Tall and elegant pinch a daze of blond curly hair, he surely catches nan eye.

John Murray: Not nan top stab successful nan dark, but aft Real Madrid's awesome season, nan Euros could springiness a chance to Guler to show what he tin do.

He's only been connected nan fringes of Real's achievements but pinch Turkey he's apt to beryllium centre-stage successful nan midfield playmaker role.

Steve Wilson: Joined Real from Fenerbahce past summertime and almost instantly sewage earnestly injured, not making his debut until precocious January.

He was understandably utilized chiefly to springiness older and wiser heads a break successful Real's engaged play - but pinch six goals successful his first 12 games for nan club, he is already demanding attraction successful his ain right. Turkey coach Vincenzo Montella must beryllium tempted to commencement him astatine nan Euros.

Vicki Sparks: Versatile attacker Simons has excelled connected indebtedness astatine RB Leipzig from PSG this season.

He's a very difficult subordinate to extremity erstwhile he gets going - he was nan astir fouled subordinate successful nan Bundesliga this play - and loves to beryllium nan supplier for his team-mates, finishing associated 2nd for assists successful nan German apical flight.

Robyn Cowan: After being surrounded by a batch of hype since puerility - difficult to play down pinch a first sanction for illustration his - could this beryllium nan tourney nan footballing world sits up and notices Simons?

His champion position is conscionable down nan striker, and he has nan value to make nan quality successful tight games.

Steve Wilson: Debast went to nan World Cup successful 2022 and sewage valuable tourney experience, if not immoderate existent playing-time.

He impressed successful Belgium’s tie astatine Wembley successful March and his consistently fantabulous performances for Anderlecht past play triggered an early summertime transportation scramble which has conscionable been won by Sporting, frankincense disappointing West Ham, AC Milan and Napoli.

Steve Wilson: After his breakthrough astatine AEK Athens, 2 very promising seasons pinch Lokomotiv Moscow person followed, successful what has go nan footballing backwater of nan Russian Premier League.

Juventus are reported to beryllium very keen, and he is expected to commencement Albania’s opening crippled against Italy successful Dortmund - nan cleanable shop window.

Steve Wilson: Blessed pinch some awesome gait and control, Vanat made his world debut against Germany past June.

He signed a caller three-year woody to enactment successful Kiev not agelong aft - but seems destined to time off Ukraine sooner aliases later. He will almost surely beryllium down Spanish-based Roman Yaremchuk and Artem Dovbyk for Sergei Rebrov's Ukraine broadside this summertime - but could beryllium very useful from nan bench.

Vicki Sparks: Frimpong has enjoyed a superb play pinch German double-winners Bayer Leverkusen, netting 14 goals and being named successful nan Bundesliga squad of nan play for nan 2nd twelvemonth running.

Frimpong tin play astatine correct wing-back and right-back, and was utilized connected nan correct helping by Ronald Koeman to awesome effect successful nan Netherlands' pre-tournament friends against Canada, successful which he bagged a extremity and an assist. He was portion of nan squad astatine nan 2022 World Cup, but didn’t characteristic - that won't beryllium nan lawsuit here.

Steve Wilson: For astatine slightest 2 years Adam Hlozek has been tipped arsenic nan adjacent large point to travel retired of nan Czech Republic and could still reasonably beryllium included connected this list, but his profession is yet to return disconnected astatine Leverkusen a mates of seasons connected from his move from Sparta Prague.

So, participate Jurasek - a twelvemonth younger and still playing successful Prague pinch Slavia. Is he nan (next) adjacent large thing? Highly effective connected either flank, he whitethorn struggle to find a starting berth astatine nan Euros successful nan Czech’s constrictive formation.

John Murray: Holding midfielder Hjulmand has been a large portion of Ruben Amorim's Portuguese convention title-winning squad this season.

He's 25 later this period but this wasn't his first play astatine Sporting and he only made his world debut successful September, truthful he's still rather caller connected nan large stage. No narration to Denmark coach Kasper, by nan way.

Steve Wilson: The German-born teen scored successful nan Olympiastadion successful Berlin connected his first world commencement backmost successful November arsenic Turkey hit Germany successful their ain superior city.

He near Bayern Munich 2 summers agone erstwhile his statement expired and rejected an connection from Barcelona, preferring to subordinate Juventus. He became a regular successful Turin this season, wherever he is highly extremely regarded.

Steve Wilson: A merchandise of Hertha Berlin and RB Leipzig’s younker teams, he moved to Udinese 3 years agone and almost joined Inter Milan past summer. A move this model looks definite - Juventus caput a database which is said to see Borussia Dortmund and Brighton.

He could beryllium an understudy to Dusan Tadic astatine these Euros, but Tadic is 35 and that pecking bid can't past overmuch longer.

Steve Wilson: A left-footer who has caught galore an admiring glimpse astatine nan bosom of Cagliari's defence.

He has captained nan Slovakian Under-21 broadside and is fresh to measurement up to nan seniors, having played some nan March friendlies against Austria and Norway.

Cagliari's determination to necktie him to a caller statement past summertime looks a wise one.

Steve Wilson: Certainly a cheaper choice, erstwhile compared to Benjamin Sesko, for immoderate nine wanting to container a Slovenian striker this summertime - but a useful option.

Vipotnik scored connected his world debut against Kazakhstan a twelvemonth agone and moved from Maribor to Bordeaux soon afterwards. Ten goals for a mid-table Ligue 2 broadside made him 1 of nan fewer pluses from Bordeaux's mediocre campaign.