Summer Mercato 2022

[Sleeping Giant]

When we signed Paqueta in 2018 Antony was 17-18 years old and played in Sao Paulo B-team and had done nothing so I'm pretty sure he was no real alternative back then.

Also Paqueta is not a horrible player. It's true that it didn't work out as we had hoped at Milan, but he was still very young and I still think that he could have come good here with better man management. Now he's one of the best players in Ligue 1, scores goals and contributes a lot for Lyon and at whoscored.com he's ranked 7th overall for player ratings this season. He is also doing well for the Brazilian national team.

It's a mirage, he will soon flop in his usual way outside France and being a starter for Brazil means nothing nowadays when they have players like Danilo, Fred and Everton starting in their Copa final...