No he is not. Same style solid reliable but average fullback that shouldn't, and doesn't, make much noise either way. In a football scene starved of top fullbacks, a particularly good one doesn't play at Koln at 28 years old.
Either of these two would be back ups, nice back ups, but that's about it. Better than the current version of Lichtsteiner, not better than the current version of in form Asamoah.
- - - Updated - - -
Thats great... Now the only thing missing is to understand who is Favilli...
Favilli was with us before on loan as the poster above said. He has been on the youth hype for most of his career. Madrid was looking at him earlier when we we got him. He looks decidedly better than Cerri, Trotta, and the band of scrubs that we've had in our youth ranks. Plays well enough at 20 to get consistent time in Serie B and perform well in that time with good play and goals. For 7m he will be useful if not for us, to use in transfers. Most Serie A clubs will want Favilli.