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Rafael Leao

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This is a guess in my part, I'm no ITK. But honestly, think this one will pick up steam in coming weeks. Since the Fernandes deal - because it's how Mendes operates. You buy a good player from him, he makes you buy another one from his stable that isn't so good, who also needs a move.

Rafa Leao fits the bill - we need a left winger, he's available, but his wages put most clubs off and he's very lazy when defending, which is an anachronism in modern football.

A top club likely won't come in for him, but guess who has cash to burn, is in a league Leao would consider moving to, and is based in a global supercity that players like living in?

I personally think there's better out there, certainly given de Zerbi's system relies on intense pressing and Leao simply will never do that. But, I think there's enough linkages that this one might have legs down the line.
 
Legohamster said:
One of those players I don't get, never seems to be great when I watch him/his team play, but everyone seems to rave over him
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Elite ball carrier when in the mood, not particularly good at much else, is how I can sum him up, having watched him for a bit.

He doesn't do much off the ball, and on it, he needs to be on his game to show what he can do. It used to be he was switched on enough to show that regularly, but even that's declined over the last few years.

His highs, are super high - I saw him take the ball past 7 Napoli players in one go last year, with them all desperately trailing in his wake. His lows are super low - I don't even support Milan and I was yelling at my telly for him to do more than walk around aimlessly when they didn't have the ball. And there's been far more lows than highs recently.
 
DubaiSpur said:
Elite ball carrier when in the mood, not particularly good at much else, is how I can sum him up, having watched him for a bit.

He doesn't do much off the ball, and on it, he needs to be on his game to show what he can do. It used to be he was switched on enough to show that regularly, but even that's declined over the last few years.

His highs, are super high - I saw him take the ball past 7 Napoli players in one go last year, with them all desperately trailing in his wake. His lows are super low - I don't even support Milan and I was yelling at my telly for him to do more than walk around aimlessly when they didn't have the ball. And there's been far more lows than highs recently.
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Would you take him or Savinho?
 
DubaiSpur said:
Elite ball carrier when in the mood, not particularly good at much else, is how I can sum him up, having watched him for a bit.

He doesn't do much off the ball, and on it, he needs to be on his game to show what he can do. It used to be he was switched on enough to show that regularly, but even that's declined over the last few years.

His highs, are super high - I saw him take the ball past 7 Napoli players in one go last year, with them all desperately trailing in his wake. His lows are super low - I don't even support Milan and I was yelling at my telly for him to do more than walk around aimlessly when they didn't have the ball. And there's been far more lows than highs recently.
That description reminds me of a certain Tongey Ndombele.
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Legohamster said:
Would you take him or Savinho?
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I honestly wouldn't take either. If Leao can't motivate himself to give a toss at a grand club like Milan, he won't with us, especially with all the temptations of London. And Savinho is too much of a raw and unproven project for me to feel comfortable with him being our left-winger of choice for the price being quoted for him.

But, it's less about what I want and more about what I think will happen - and I have a sneaking feeling Jorge Mendes will be thinking about moving Leao to Spurs now he has an 'in' via Fernandes. The other clubs Mendes deals with either are too big to bother with someone like Leao, or too small to afford him. We're in the sweet spot - rich, London-based, have a certain level of prestige, not too many expectations.
 
DubaiSpur said:
I honestly wouldn't take either. If Leao can't motivate himself to give a toss at a grand club like Milan, he won't with us, especially with all the temptations of London. And Savinho is too much of a raw and unproven project for me to feel comfortable with him being our left-winger of choice for the price being quoted for him.

But, it's less about what I want and more about what I think will happen - and I have a sneaking feeling Jorge Mendes will be thinking about moving Leao to Spurs now he has an 'in' via Fernandes. The other clubs Mendes deals with either are too big to bother with someone like Leao, or too small to afford him. We're in the sweet spot - rich, London-based, have a certain level of prestige, not too many expectations.
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Savinho was a very good player prior to city, whether allowed to play his natural game he can do it in the prem remains to be seen but he has talent
 
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