A goal and an assist in 8 games. A very normal booty, but that obviously must have been enough for Rafael Leao to feel like a player ready for the big squares, maybe even wasted for a suffering reality like Milan. A feeling shared by many experts after seeing the latest disappointing performances of the Portuguese talent in the Rossoneri shirt:
a mix of listlessness, superficiality and presumption, certainly not the most well-chosen ingredients to make headway in big football. Rather,
the antechamber of a path to Balotelli or alla Niang, to cite two examples of great promises that at San Siro have failed to consecrate themselves due to a character not in line with the qualities that Mother Nature has given him.
BET OR BET? – Leao remains the great hope, in addition to the big investment, of Paolo Maldini and Zvonimir Boban, convinced that they have found in one fell swoop the new promise of European football and a player who also satisfied Elliott's economic parameters 100%: futuristic and resellable to important figures in the event of an explosion.
A bet that deserved and that still deserves confidence for the qualities made visible by the former of Sporting Lisbon and Lille, but that without an adequate guide that also addresses attitudes and behavior risks dangerously to skid. An increasingly common tendency, unfortunately, to see great talents being lost behind strings of compliments and adulations for the first goal or the first level performance, only to get lost in the face of the first difficulties. A football system that now engulfs everything and always hastens the times, without allowing 20-year-olds the patience to grow and mature as people even before as athletes.
MILAN MIRROR – A fault that we too, as the world of information, must take upon ourselves when we too hastily rise to the stars and then promptly reject them in the dust. But that should not sound like an alibi for the current Leao, only the latest example of an increasingly widespread malpractice. But also it mirror of what Milan has become today, a group of players with little experience and a sense of belonging. Will Stefano Pioli's public tug of ears be enough to immediately correct the course and bring the boy back on the right path?
