Cheesio is objecting bit too strongly on a fluff comment, but ze marraccan is right on this one, Verratti seems like a quiet and normal kid/young player, but to say he would be the closest thing to Ale is farfetched and random, no real indications to base that on.
Now to what matters....Milan spending 12m on a midfielder

Where's Alens statistical magic when you need it, if we go back like half a decade on money they spent on midfielders, it would prolly turn out as much as we spent on bonucci