Elliot Watt

Elliot Watt has been a fixed part of Motherwell’s Premiership side in 2025-26, making 34 appearances and starting every one of them. Six league goals from central defensive midfield is a useful return, while eight yellows and one red point to a player operating in high-contact areas and carrying disciplinary risk. With eight further cup appearances without a goal, his value this season looks more structural than spectacular – availability, starts and midfield volume.

Watt’s career has moved through Wolverhampton Wanderers, Bradford City, Salford City, Burton Albion, a loan at St Johnstone and now Motherwell, which points to a player who has had to build status through regular senior football rather than a smooth academy-to-first-team rise. At 26, the Motherwell spell looks like a more settled phase, with his six league goals in 2025-26 already above the two recorded in 2024-25.

The transfer record is low-cost and pragmatic: two undisclosed-fee moves earlier in his career, then free transfers from Salford City to Burton Albion and from Burton Albion to Motherwell, with a St Johnstone loan in between. That pattern suggests clubs have seen value in Watt as an available, experienced midfield option rather than as a major-fee signing. The Motherwell move has brought him back into the Scottish Premiership on a permanent basis.