All the big clubs want him. Same level of talent to early Santos Neymar. Better prospect than Endrick. Nicknamed “Messinho”🪄
Estêvão Willian is a superstar🌟🇧🇷
A future Ballon d’Or winner. What this boy can do is special and he’s destined for the top🚀
[THREAD]
The Corinthians golden generation is truly special. One of them is Wesley Gassova🇧🇷
Dynamic superstar LW full of pnp and ball-striking prowess. Comparisons to Kylian Mbappé aren’t far off🔍
Add to that Wesley's defensive work-rate & physicality. Complete superstar🌟
[THREAD]
Boca Junior CCB prospect Aaron Anselmino is special✨
The Argentine is ultra calm on the ball blended with the perfect timing of aggression in duels🛡️
An intelligent CB who anticipates through balls in behind to defend big spaces🧠
You need to know about him👀
[THREAD]
Joshua Zirkzee is one of the most intelligent
#9
right now🧠
Facilitator of build-up play to escape swamped areas, drops deep to help the team evade the press, elite spatial awareness👀
6’4” but turns like he’s 5’9”, loves a Cruyff turn🪄
An elite potential ST💫
[THREAD]
Equi Fernández put on a show last night for Boca Juniors. One of my favourite players in South America with an elite level ceiling.
Perfect 6/8 hybrid.
A 20m bargain I’d sign.
A Rice x Equi Fernández pivot would be sensational.
🎥:
@JuannDis
São Paulo, a team that blessed us with top Brazilians: Kaká, Cafu, Júlio Baptista, Éder Militão, Casemiro and many more🇧🇷
Pablo Maia is the latest⭐️
21 y/o warrior. Ball-striking monster. Likened to former São Paulo DM Casemiro⚔️
Who is Arsenal’s latest DM target?👀
[THREAD]
You’ve all heard about Gabriel Moscardo, but there’s another Corinthians superstar you’ll want to know about…
Breno Bidon ⭐️
Super intelligent, all-phase
#8
with an advanced understanding of the game🧠
Exceptional weight of pass, good tackler, high IQ technician✨
[THREAD]
Marcin Bułka. The best complete GK in 2023/24 bar Alisson. The best GK on the market👀
Colossus presence, 6’6”, great ball-player, amazing shot stopper, penalty specialist🧤
An elite GK hiding at OGC Nice, but he can’t hide much longer🔍
The GK I want at Arsenal🤝🏽
[THREAD]
Ethan Nwaneri is one of the best talent at youth academy level. Elite potential✨
The Hale End star was on fire this week scoring 5 goals in the 2nd half😳
Could he play vs PSV?🇳🇱
Keeping Nwaneri has saved a future outlay of £100m on another player of his profile💰
[THREAD]
Turkey’s future prospects are super exciting. Arda Güler, Kenan Yıldız, Can Uzun plus the more established such as Orkun Kökçü and Ferdi Kadıoğlu..
One going under the radar is Beşiktaş future star:
Semih Kılıçsoy..
Powerful forward with close control..
[THREAD]
Versatile Fenerbahçe star Ferdi Kadıoğlu has been subject of Arsenal interest🇹🇷
The winger turned FB is an intelligent player who offers creativity, ball-striking, dribbling etc. on the ball💥
Kadıoğlu could be a great value for money signing for Arsenal💰
[THREAD]
Monster outs performance from Kiwior
That LB position is his now as far as I’m concerned, Zinchenko has to force his way back into the team. Love healthy competition
Massive headache when Timber is back because White has been quality recently too
Kiwior stocks to the moon🚀
Argentina have an exciting crop of young CB’s coming through. One of the hidden gems is Belgrano’s Matías Moreno🇦🇷💎
6’4”, athletic, can play WCB or CCB, press resistant, has outstanding progressing passing and quality 1v1 defending🛡️
One of my favourite CB finds🔍
[THREAD]
Brazil are notorious for producing exciting wingers and Alisson Santana at Atlético Mineiro is one of those next up🇧🇷
Santana combines pnp with technical ability and a desire to take on players⚡️
The future is bright for Atlético’s latest star⭐️
[THREAD]
Remember at the beginning of the season where rival fans said Ødegaard wasn’t near Fernandes, Maddison & Szoboszlai as a creator?
Pls, where have you people gone? All hiding in the shadows. Come outside. We need to have a conversation. Your boys have gone missing, MEANWHILE…
1 -
@Arsenal
's Martin Ødegaard is the first player on record (since 2003-04) to complete 100+ passes (107), create at least five chances (7), and assist multiple goals (2) in the same Premier League match. Maestro.
Brazil produces some of the best wingers in world football🇧🇷
A shining light at Grêmio is no other than LW prospect Gustavo Nunes💫
The skilful, pacy winger has alright hit the ground running since making his first team debut and there’s much more to come from him🔍
[THREAD]
Hale End is full of stars. The most likely to break into the first team next is Myles Lewis-Skelly⭐️
Crazy athlete, insane ball-carrier with physicality and tackling ability💥
There’s plenty of areas for improvement for Arsenal but they may have internal solutions💭
[THREAD]
Forever grateful for this CB partnership.
Gabriel - £21.5m
Saliba - £27m
Total = £48.5m
£48.5m for THIS?! Ridiculous value. Not spoken about enough how cheap they are compared to other Top6 CB’s.
Best Emirates-era CB partnership, potential to be the best ever Arsenal CB pair.
Dinizismo in full flow. Great to watch but VERY high risk
I’m curious to see how it would do in Europe as I feel it’s a style that would only be successful with a team full of WC players.
Elite skill is needed to execute this with minimal mistakes
Lots of teams in need of a new
#9
come the summer9️⃣
A bagsman to lead the line capable of holding up the ball, linking with attackers, instinctive finishing, physical, a threat in transitions🎯
Feyenoord’s Santiago Giménez ticks every box🇲🇽✔️
An underrated option👀
[THREAD]
Might not have won the tie but Vitinha showed how he’s been one of the best midfielders in the world this season.
The close control, IQ, vision, intelligence to dictate the tempo, ball-striking, the time of release, press resistance, mentality, tenacity.
So complete.
Wait on Fábio Vieira⏱️
When people criticise this signing, it’s almost comical.
There’s no better penetrative passer in the team, not a more decisive passer in the midfield than Fábio. Still think he’s another like Martinelli who’s made for Champions League nights🌟
Ødegaard entering his David Silva era and he’s running games for us right now. Another sensational performance from him today.
A lot of you owe him an apology…
Nico Williams. Get it done. My
#1
winger target🥇
The level of ability he has means he’s good enough to displace Saka or Martinelli, he could be a serious challenger & raise their game📈
It’s all about persuading him our project is best for him, many clubs will can pay the RC💰
Honestly there’s about 7 UCL level players at Palace:
-Guéhi
-Andersen
-Wharton
-Olise
-Eze
-Doucouré
-Mitchell
As much as I sees them all at big clubs, I’d love if they somehow kept them and built around these guys, finally with a manager able to get the best out of them.
Kylian, yes you could go to Real Madrid, win a few UCL’s, leagues blah blah blah. You’d be one of many Galacticos in the clubs history
OR go to Arsenal, be the difference maker taking the club to GREATNESS. First ever UCL, Henry 2.0, go machine for machine with Haaland, a legend
I’m disappointed in my club. When both Paquetá & Guimarães were at Lyon and we were linked I wanted us to do everything to sign them.
Bruno chose Newcastle, Paquetá seemingly wasn’t approached. Now they’ll both likely be going for around £100m. Keep missing out on lower prices.
Sport Recife’s Pedro Lima has exploded onto the scene this season & shown much promise at youth level💫
Flying attacking RB with lots of raw technical ability, final 3rd prowess plus the aggression & physicality when defending💪🏽
Pedro Lima is one to keep an eye on🔍
[THREAD]
My dream future back 4:
RB: Jurriën Timber
RCB: William Saliba
LCB: Ousmane Diomande
LB: Jorrel Hato
For me, Hato would be as well as Diomande, not instead. He’d play LB for us not CB. Diomande still my main CB target
Xavi Simons is too good to not be a key player at his club wherever he ends up. Shouldn’t accept a role at PSG where he doesn’t get regular minutes, he’s too good for that
My hope is that he ends up at Arsenal competing for all the front 3 and
#8
positions
Superstar potential💫
Gabriel Mec is making waves in Brazil. A 2-footed, skilful Brazilian attacker🇧🇷
A Joga Bonito baller🪄
Neymar-esque play-style and comes from the same academy (Grêmio) as Ronaldinho. Hard to not be excited by him🇪🇪
[THREAD]
Every game it reaffirms our need for Onana & Leão.
The presence in midfield and carrying from deep of Onana and the elite outlet of Leão would’ve been the difference to win us the game yesterday.
These must be the top targets, I doubt Leão is possible now but Onana maybe.
Vasco da Gama’s star midfielder Marlon Gomes is attracting interest from Premier League clubs, but who is he?💫
High energy, all-action flair midfielder who’s an aggressive tackler with close control and great carrying ability👏🏽
Vasco’s very own Lucas Paquetá🇧🇷🕺🏽
[THREAD]
Zhegrova is a literal Mahrez regen and barely anyone is talking about it.
The guy is a joke. Available for about 15m - could be the bargain of the season.
Teams wanting 30m,40m,50m for their RW’s, nah bring me Zhegrova and I’ll turn him into an 80m RW.
Vasco da Gama have many top prospects and the latest is Rayan Vitor🇧🇷
Technical powerhouse forward with deadly instincts around the box🎯
Rayan is someone to watch out for in the next few years as he becomes a regular for Vasco’s first team. Star in the making⭐️
[THREAD]
Estêvão is as good as youth talents come.
Blessed with a natural ability to come up with game winning moments.
Watching him just begs the question, just how good can he be?
The answer, the best.
🎥:
@XDcomps
Páez, Palmer, Estêvão, Ângelo, Hutchinson.
All RW/AM hybrids. All U22.
Zero plan, zero care for each player’s career. Would be such a shame if Estêvão was to go there for his own career.
Barça, Madrid, PSG all make much more sense.
🚨BREAKING: Chelsea advances and signals with offer of 30 million euros fixed + 25 million euros for objectives by Estêvão; in all, the eventual global business can reach 55 million euros.
[
@andrehernan
]
Ezequiel “Equi” Fernández is the star man in the midfield for Boca Juniors🇦🇷
Excellent ball-winner, powerful carrier, press resistant, two-footed, quality ball-manipulation. An all-round intelligent player🧠
Everything you want in a modern day all-action
#8
💥
[THREAD]
Nico Williams. Get it done. My
#1
winger target🥇
The level of ability he has means he’s good enough to displace Saka or Martinelli, he could be a serious challenger & raise their game📈
It’s all about persuading him our project is best for him, many clubs will can pay the RC💰
Palace are proof that the championship has amazing Premier League ready talents. 3 stand out players in Wharton, Eze & Olise all bought from the championship.
Wharton’s performances at Palace have been seriously impressive, they could easily flip him for double the price already
George Ilenikhena is one of the best killer striker prospects in Europe right now💥
Instinctive finisher, uses his body well in duels, so mobile running the channels🏃🏾♂️
Nigeria have produced another top
#9
but will he represent them or France?🇳🇬🇫🇷
[THREAD]
Estêvão & Yamal would be Barça’s Vini & Rodrygo. An exciting prospect of them playing together.
Estêvão at AM, Yamal RW.
With Barça it all depends on the money. No doubt they can make them work together.
0:44 - the kid wants Barça & Barça makes sense.
I’d much rather prefer this move for his progression in terms of playstyle, culture, space for him, competition, etc.
After Neymar, Barça haven’t had another big hit from Brazil (Roque will be soon though)
🚨 Enzo Fernandez is now open to a Chelsea departure. His agents have begun talks with various clubs to explore potential opportunities.
(Source:
@jac_talbot
)
Doesn’t get said enough so I’ll say it now…
Signing Jorginho for £12m was a great deal. Adds depth at
#6
, an experienced composed head to help control the game. His line-breaking passes & passes over the top of the defence are top drawer👏🏽
Having him as an option helps so much
In other news, Semih Kılıçsoy got another 2 goals today. Again showing he’s a serious killer in front of goal.
Can’t give him space to shoot, not even on his left. Look at this strike!
🎥:
@beINSPORTS_TR
It’s about time the world starts talking about Tomiyasu. There’s no one out there who’s as comfortable, composed & commanding at CB, LB & RB as him right now.
Many specialists are better in individual positions, but he’s the best ‘Swiss-army-knife defender’
📸:
@heptaviews
Somewhere Endrick has the coldest photo album to ever have existed at only 17🥶
Imagine all the iconic photos he’ll have by the time he’s retired…
[THREAD]
River Plate’s upcoming generation has a few future superstars in it✨
Every year they produce top talents and the latest is a killer up top🎯
A physical
#9
with instinctive finishing, electric pace, 6’1” and no angle bias when shooting🚀
His name is Agustín Ruberto🇦🇷
[THREAD]
Pascal Groß could be a Trossard-like signing for Arsenal/City who comes in for a relatively low fee but has a huge impact. Someone that knows the league but is able to fill in at so many different roles to a high level.
RB, LB, DM, RCM, LCM.
The leagues most underrated baller.
Diomande this, Diomande that, do top clubs really want to give Bayern a free run at this elite potential CB?!
Yoro has been performing at an insane level for so young, he’ll be a ‘galactico’ type CB one day. Someone better get him soon before he costs them £100m
Jorginho for £10m has to be one of the best value signings Arteta has made and will make.
Need him to sign the extension ASAP.
The dynamics of him and Rice works so well in these big games with Havertz up top. Absolutely love it.
Cubarsí was so good at youth level but the way he’s transitioned seamlessly to the first team is ridiculous.
The top level of anticipation, composure and security on the ball, timed aggressions. Such an impressive half from him today.
For only 17, what he’s doing is crazy.
I genuinely feel if West Ham had got Gyökeres in the summer for only the €30m Sporting paid Coventry, they’d be top 4 challengers this season
Gyökeres
Kudus Bowen
Paquetá Ward-Prowse
Álvarez
People have to look beyond this season.
Think about this for a second, Rashford broke through under Van Gaal and played under Mourinho, Solskjær, Carrick, Ragnick, Ten Hag. None of which had a highly functional system.
World class players joined and flopped, Rashford delivered.
If this is anything below £70m, you do it.
Honestly I think there’s our superstar if we want it
Talent ID is about seeing beyond the surface to what a player *could* be in the right environment
Wilfried Singo is the complete RB Arsenal need. A flying-RWB turned RCB in a back 3, his transfer to Monaco will do wonders for his development📈💥
6’3” duel monster, strong ball-carrier, freak athlete with top physicality & ability on the ball. What’s not to love?👀🤔
[THREAD]
Ball-playing CBs are everything in the modern game. Left-sided ones are harder to find, however Brazil have loads of LCB prospects🇧🇷
Robert Renan, Lucas Beraldo, Murillo, Natan and next up…
João Dalla Corte: Internacional’s academy LCB✨
[THREAD]
I never diverted away from Hato.
No matter what happens at LB/LCB, Hato is a must. It’s early in his development to sign him but I’d rather secure him now for Jorrel to develop at Arsenal & learn the system.
Another elite potential Swiss-army knife defender (like Jurriën is).
Crystal Palace Rebuild🔴🔵
With Palace an established Premier League team for a while now, it’s clear they’ve stagnated
A lack of ambition has them stuck around mid-table flirting with relegation on occasion when they’ve had the foundations for much more. Here's what I'd do...
Wesley Gassova is a serious talent.
An unpredictable dribbler with a serious amount of power and explosiveness in his stride.
Wesley’s rapid change of direction helps him break from defenders and unleash a powerful shot on goal.
🎥:
@jdp343
River Plate’s academy continues to create elite potential talents. Next up:
Franco Mastantuono🇦🇷✨
Advanced intelligence, excellent creator who judges the weight of pass excellently plus a ball-striking threat shooting from distance particularly on free kicks💥
[THREAD]
The shock of Brasileirão’s final day was a Santos RELEGATION. All season they were carried by 20y/o striker Marcos Leonardo🇧🇷
An instinctive poacher with similarities to Sergio Aguero💥
Leonardo could be one of the best opportunity signings💭
A potential bargain👀
[THREAD]
In the days where full-backs can be so influential in games, full-backs who can invert, overlap AND defend are so valuable💰
That’s why to me it’s such a surprise that not enough people are talking about Tiago Santos👀
The Portuguese Lille RB is so underrated📈
[THREAD]
Zinchenko was outstanding and it’s barely spoken about.
Gabriel Jesus brought the fire but Zinchenko brought the ice.
The most composed Arsenal player on the pitch.
Whilst everyone was rushing every pass, he would turn back, slow the tempo, calm everyone, then progress play.
Mohammed Kudus, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Simon Adingra and Ernest Nuamah. These are some of the explosive attackers that the Right to Dream academy produced and FC Nordsjælland developed✨
Next up: Ibrahim Osman🇬🇭
The Ghanaian LW/ST is one to watch👀
[THREAD]
One of the most complete 17 y/o midfielders. Yes he’s got great ball manipulation and creativity but he’s defensive ability, awareness and tackling is top quality. A leader at 17 too
Bergvall & Vermeeren are 2
#8
prospects rumoured to be going for around 10m. Long-term steals.
Jakub Kiwior.
Misunderstood and under-appreciated. A player of real quality whose reputation has been somewhat damaged due to playing in an unfamiliar role with limited minutes.
But what a game from him yesterday. More of that and he’ll force his way into the team. I hope so.
🇳🇱 Hato & Simons - Double Dutch 🇳🇱
Two players with elite football brains that have gone through the highest calibre of education and thrived in high pressure situations.
Mouldable but exceptional thinkers made to deliver on the biggest stage. These are MUSTS. My top 2 MUSTS.
Diomande, Yoro & Vušković are the CB prospects who have this same quality to ‘dunk’ on opponents.
Diomande through the way he bodies attackers, solid immovable brick wall.
Yoro more through his exceptional last man tackling. He’s got those octopus legs.
Vušković has both.
One of the things I love most about Saliba is his inevitability in 1v1’s. So often a winger will beat another player first but when they arrive to Saliba, his presence is frightening.
He locks off all angles and just collects the ball like it’s HIS and they stole it off him.
Really hope Kudus is still an option for us in the near future
Yes he’ll cost more now but for me there’s no better RW option for what we need and add to the fact he’s so versatile playing ST, LCM, RCM it’s a no brainer
Wanted him as our 5th summer signing, would’ve been insane
Federico Redondo: Like Father, Like Son👨👦✨
Federico is the heir to Fernando Redondo’s thrown as one of the greatest “6s” in football history
At 20yrs old, Federico has already shown that he has the ability to reach those same heights AND BEYOND
[THREAD🇦🇷]
Semih Kılıçsoy with another goal (AND an assist) today. What did I tell you about his ball striking?!💥
If you guys invested your stocks when I told you you’d have already tripled your money😂
5 goals & 2 assists in 4 games
🎥:
@FootColic
The day Šeško realises he’s 6’5” he’ll be a monster.
Physicality and aerial duels aren’t close to optimal yet, with time and coaching, his ceiling is high. Šeško is raw but has excellent fundamentals.
Havertz, Šeško, Obi all part of the mobile Giraffe ST club.
2023/24 “Breakout Prospects” XI⭐️
All across the world there are some quality players breaking through this season or about to💥
The future of football💫
Here are some of my favourites and what I’ve written in them all✍️
A thread of threads…
Thread-ception🫨
Yamal is a joke. His ball manipulation is ridiculous and the way he can open up his stride to have a higher top speed on transitions is just devastating.
Really hope he’s not another who struggles with injuries. Could be one of the best in the world in no time.
FC Porto signing Alan Varela for only €8m has to go down as one of the bargains of the season💶
Perfect player-club fit with a potentially huge sell on value📈
Varela has been a key player this season for Porto and has a very complete profile✅
[THREAD]
Gabriel was COLOSSUS yesterday. Always is in big games, loves to battles
Rice
Gabriel Saliba
This spine will win trophies & Gabriel is the unsung hero
Outside the Arsenal fanbase he’s not rated enough, time he gets the respect he deserves