There is no story spoken about more right now than Ivan Toney’s rise from League Two to the English national team.

The 26-year-old’s journey should inspire a lot of young players in the modern era.

Toney, originally of the Northampton Town academy, signed for Newcastle United in 2015 and went on multiple loan spells before finally finding a home for himself at Peterborough United in 2018.

Since then, Toney has not looked back and his career has been on the rise.

The following visualisation shows Toney’s rise over the last three seasons at Peterborough United in 2019-20 and at Brentford since then.

If there is one thing that Toney’s rise from League Two to the Premier League shows, it is that Ivan Toney has become one of the most complete strikers in the world, as the above visual indicates.

In 2019/20, at Peterborough United, Toney won the League One Player of the Year scoring 24 goals and ended up as the league’s top scorer.

This secured him a move to Championship club Brentford the following season.

In his first season at Brentford, he set the record for the most goals in a single season in the Championship with 31 goals and helped Brentford secure promotion to the top flight of English football.

In his first season in the Premier League, Toney finished with 12 goals for Brentford.

Ivan Toney over the years has developed his game so much.

He has gone from an out-and-out goalscorer to playing an important role in creating and building up chances for his teammates.

As you can see in the visual above, Toney has gone from taking a high volume of shots to taking shots less often recently.

His creativity numbers have also grown, as indicated by his percentile ranks for Key Passes per 90 minutes.

The number of touches that Toney takes inside the box has also gone down, showing that he drops deep more often to hold up and link up play with his teammates.

An aspect of his game that has maybe gone down is his goal conversion (%).

Ivan Toney is currently one of the most all-round strikers in the Premier League right now.

At 26 years old, Toney is also at the right age and has been linked with a move away from Brentford for quite some time now.

It will be interesting to see if Toney gets his chance to impress for the national team and if he can become England’s No.9 in the long term.