Realistic names: Aouar, Isco, Kante?
Yes I know and that comparison is laughable. Casemiro was playing for Real Madrids first team when he was 21/22 years old, while our beloved Locatelli was rotting on the Milan bench at the age of 21/22.
isco and kante aren't difference makers at this point of their carreers. kante at 30 isn't someone to fap on, while i can't even remember isco's last good game, he's nothing but a bench player for this meh real team. if he was 26-27, i'd be all over him, i even wanted him last summer on a cheap and especially watching all the underwhelming names that were linked to juve, but imagine giving 30-year-old kante a 4-year contract and watching him being benched in a season or two. in 2021, kante over locatelli is an extremely short sighted choice, something like vidal over tonali.
i like aouar, i'd certainly take him if he's available. he's got a completely different skillset than locatelli though. the two aren't mutually exclusive, i'd prefer to have both.
wanna check where players like barzagli, lichtsteiner, drogba, ilicic or luca toni were doing at the same age? toni @ 21 was a serie c striker on the verge of making the big jump to serie b... btw at 21, casemiro was a bench player for real, then was loaned to porto. the joke is on milan for letting locatelli go on a cheap.
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Is Aouar really all that? How has he been playing this season? I wouldn't want to buy a one season wonder. I'd still take someone like Pogba over him
i used to watch lyon just to see him last season, i only saw him like 2-3 times this term, so can't really tell.
@Raphaël maybe?
anyway, i saw enough of him last season, he's very good.