How can I target and scrape a data-stat

[snippsat]

You get that error because you loop is wrong,so try to do a string slice.
Also it's not div it's in a table th tag.
Do not use try:except when testing stuff out.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

html = requests.get('https://fbref.com/en/squads/19538871/Manchester-United-Stats')
html.raise_for_status()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.content, 'lxml')
clubs = soup.find(class_='stats_table')
players = clubs.find_all('th', {'data-stat': 'player'})
for name in players:
    print(name.text)

Output:
Player
David de Gea
Bruno Fernandes
Harry Maguire
Scott McTominay
Fred
Cristiano Ronaldo
Mason Greenwood
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Luke Shaw
....