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Fifty million euros. Count badly, net of more or less easy to reach bonuses. This is what Milan invested in last January to secure what was considered almost unanimously the best footballer of Flamengo winner of the Brasileirao. Lucas Paqueta it is a sample prospect on which even Paris Saint Germain had its eyes set but that the former rossoneri ds Leonardo has been able to secure with a work of highly skilled diplomacy and excellent previous relations with the Brazilian company. But that today, after just under a year in Serie A, it is still a question mark.TACTICAL EQUIVOCO – Half-wing or trequartista? This was the first unknown factor that accompanied the performance of the national green-gold, a player of undoubted technical qualities and with a potential that is still unexplored above all in terms of tactical sagacity that can definitely explode and make the fortune of anyone who has it available. . But the problem is that, until now, Paqueta's flashes have been isolated and not very closely linked, as if in a team like the Rossoneri, that changed three coaches a few months ago, the ideal conditions have not yet been created to bring out the qualities of the former Flamengo. Gattuso used it as a left-wing interior, with tasks more like a balancer than a raid, Giampaolo never aimed at us with great conviction, attributing to him excessive anarchy, Pioli instead has just embarked on the path to "free" him and turn him into a midfielder capable of attack the door and bring goals and assists.

IT CAN BE A LEADER – In all this, even the boy is called to make a qualitative leap from the point of view of personality and charisma, so that his being above the average in the current AC Milan leads him to become a technical leader. In a formation that needs the bread of players, even young people, able to take all the others by the hand and pull them out of the dryness of mediocrity that has accompanied the last Rossoneri seasons. IS to ward off even those market items that want it again on PSG radar, in which, by chance, Leonardo found a room that for him literally spins. And that in January could also present itself with a check for 60 million euros to take it back after having given it to the Milanese audience. It all depends on Paqueta and his desire to decide what to do when he grows up.