The pure winger is back: the ten best under-21s

In a football that is becoming increasingly robotic and where tactics and physicality are rewarded more than individual quality itself, the appearance of the new young people with profanity and security is a real breath of fresh air.

The neutral viewer is in luck, as a promising new crop of pure extremes who repeatedly attack their protector.

With everyone starting to stand out in their teams, there is one selection that stands out above the rest:

Manchester United – 20 years – 8G/4A

Alejandro Garnacho

The Argentine is one of the main candidates to lead Manchester United in the coming years and become, under Amorim’s command, one of the best left wingers in the world.

2

Manchester City – 20 years – 0G/5A

Savino

The former player of Girona, who dazzled us all last year, is struggling in the first stage of the season in the ‘skyblue’ team, which is wrapped in a crisis of the game and results that seem to have no end.

3

Juventus – 19 years old – 4G/4A

Kenan Yildiz

The heir to Alessandro Del Piero’s ’10’ has emerged as part of which the future of the ‘Vecchia Signora’ will be built thanks to his lack of balance, vision of the game and ease in front of goal. He arrived in Turin from the Bayern youth academy in 2022.

4

Borussia Dortmund – 20 years – 9G/4A

Jamie Gittens

It’s starting to become customary for an Englishman to screw it up in Dortmund. In the case of Gittens, the ’43’ imitated Sancho, leaving the City youth academy to move to Dortmund in 2020, and this season he seems to have really exploded.

5

PSV Eindhoven – 21 years – 6G/3A

Johan Bakayoko

The experienced Belgian is one of PSV Eindhoven’s leaders despite his young age and it seems inevitable that next summer he will be in the big leagues.

6

PSG – 19 years old – 1G/1A

Désiré Doue

A Rennes striker was signed by PSG after the Games for 50 million euros, but although he only scored in the Champions League against Salzburg, he struggled to play regularly.

7

Monaco – 19 years – 5G/3A

Eliesse Ben-Seghir

The Moroccan has been one of Morocco’s sensations at the Olympic Games and now he is also one of Adi Hütter’s entertaining Monaco.

8

Leipzig – 19 years – 4G/8A

Antonio Nusa

The young Norwegian stood out above the rest in Bruges and made the leap this summer to Leipzig, where he was one of the few who could be rescued from Marco Rose’s team.

9

Manchester City – 21 years old – OG/1A

Oscar Bob

The other Norwegian on the list looked set to be a great asset for Guardiola this season after being key in the Community Shield with an assist, but all that was cut short when he broke his leg in training in August.

10

Sporting Lisbon – 17 years – 1G/2A

Geovany Quenda

The Portuguese is the breakout of the year in José Alvalade, courtesy of Gyokeres. Starting on the right wing, he has a real glove on the left and has already piqued the interest of half of Europe.