Lucas Rodrigues Moura Da Silva, more commonly known as Lucas Moura, or Lucas is a 19 year old Brazilian, attacking winger who plays for Sao Paolo FC in the Brazilian first league. Lucas Moura has been on the radar of many of Europe's top clubs for a while now, dating back to last summer where minor interest was shown in his talent by Real Madrid, but nothing official was produced. Only mid-season this year and more importantly, toward the end was his ability beginning to be admired by some of the best teams and managers around the world, with his main abilities most noted for having sensational pace, to go along with his creativity and change of direction and his world-class dribbling abilities. He has has many good and bad traits within him, he is skilled and fast and enjoys taking on the defender, however his bad traits are that at times his skills don't produce a finished product as nothing may come from them, and he prefer running at the defence rather than around them.
He is rated as one of the top players in Brazil (behind Neymar) and one of the hottest prospects in the world, being only 19 years of age. His interest heated up in early June, when chelsea, at the same time as chasing Hazard, were tabling bids for him to rival Inter Milan. They eventually had a £32.5m bid rejected, as Moura was in a position where he had no contract problems and did not want to join Chelsea and had the bid rejected, whereas now the club are still reluctant to sell, but he wants to leave to a big European club now. He also has a £67m buyout clause in his contract that is an amount no club will want to meet if they want to stay out of the reach of the FIFA fair play rules.
His club rating him highly for a teenager, at around £25-30m, it is obvious to see why they rate him at such a high amount. He is also compared in similarity to some of the world best attacking wingers, such as Juan Mata, David Silva and can also be compared to as a teenager to Cristiano Ronaldo who also developed at Manchester United. Moura tends to keep to his flanks but run at the defenders with his huge amounts of pace and pure Brazilian skill and excellence in order to get the ball through.
The talent he possesses, the skills and ability, he would be right for united present and future team. Attacking, skills and controlling a midfield in a Brazilian is something ferguson has not got right many times, but this time I can assure you Ferguson would have got this one spot on correct. One of the best talents in the world and for the future, he would dominate games for many, many years to come and would develop under the best Manager in the world, follow in the development footsteps of Ronaldo, how he went from a Portuguese nobody winger to the best in the world in a matter of years. The £25-30m price SHOULD be met as it is what United need and in a year or two will be considered a steal.
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