Rafael Leão

[Jair Ventura]

Name: Rafael Alexandre da Conceição Leão
Current Team: LOSC Lille
Shirt Number: 7
Positions: RW
Nationality: Portugal, Angola
Age: 19 years - June 10, 1999
Height: 188cm
Weight: 81kg
Foot: Right

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/349207/Show/Rafael-Leão

https://www.transfermarkt.com/rafael-leao/profil/spieler/357164

 

[Joan]

Farmers checking in.

 

[Jombi]

This guy is really worth following closely. With the dearth of good strikers out there, he has some really interesting qualities.

 

[te amo barca]

Name: Rafael Alexandre da Conceição Leão
Current Team: LOSC Lille
Shirt Number: 7
Positions: RW
Nationality: Portugal, Angola
Age: 19 years - June 10, 1999
Height: 188cm
Weight: 81kg
Foot: Right

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/349207/Show/Rafael-Leão

https://www.transfermarkt.com/rafael-leao/profil/spieler/357164

What position does he play? I thought Pepe is the RW?

 

[Joan]

In the middle of attack, more or less.

 

[Jombi]

He's a striker, not right forward.

 

[Jair Ventura]

What's your opinion of Rafael Leao?

Good player with a lot of potential but he needs time to grow. He's not ready to lead Barca's line.

 

[Jair Ventura]

 

[DonAK]

Good player with a lot of potential but he needs time to grow. He's not ready to lead Barca's line.

Doubt we're going to get anyone to lead our line with Suarez freeloading in the team. Bet he'll still be starting next season

 

[Jair Ventura]

Doubt we're going to get anyone to lead our line with Suarez freeloading in the team. Bet he'll still be starting next season

You, Madrid, or Bayern will sign Jović.

 

[DonAK]

You, Madrid, or Bayern will sign Jović.

Not entirely convinced. Would prefer a striker with pace to burn to bring a different dimension to the attack, but better than nothing I guess.

 

[Jair Ventura]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Portuguese Mbappe" isn't a nickname <a href="https://twitter.com/LOSC_EN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LOSC_EN</a>'s Rafael Leao is quite ready for.<a href="https://t.co/sGpyH6mwwn">https://t.co/sGpyH6mwwn</a></p>— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/beINSPORTSUSA/status/1096946079701053440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[DonAK]

Well, I guess LOSC is the team to follow rather than OL. From those highlights videos he seem reasonably good on the ball, very fast and quite strong physically being able to hold the ball. Often goes out on the wing too.

Very interesting player. Former Barca director Marc Ingla at Lille too.

 

[DonAK]

I will scout him. If I approve I want the entire forum to join in on the hype train and spam Twitter. Remember, I brought you guys Nelson Semedo when you were gunning for Hector Bellerin.

Not to forget how I backed Arthur when people thought he was a no-name Brazilian who would flop.

 

[Messi983]

I will scout him. If I approve I want the entire forum to join in on the hype train and spam Twitter. Remember, I brought you guys Nelson Semedo when you were gunning for Hector Bellerin.

Not to forget how I backed Arthur when people thought he was a no-name Brazilian who would flop.

Don't think anyone here really wanted Bellerin. Well, I didn't for sure.


Leao looks very promising. Can anyone prognose how much he would cost? If he's not too expensive I wouldn't mind signing him alongside someone like Jović/Gomez and leave him on loan at Lille for a year or two. We'll eventually need 2 new strikers in next two years IMO. Maybe Abel Ruiz will be good enough for a backup role but I don't have too much faith in La Masia developing first team quality strikers.