A couple of years ago when João Felix had just begun to emerge at Benfica, the Portuguese press asked Christian for his possible successor. The ex-Madridista, far from avoiding the question, pointed out to his heir: “You will be in good hands with André Silva “. Those statements were too heavy a slab for the current forward of the Eintracht, which until this course has been very far from meeting expectations.
The Milan bet on André in the summer of 2017 and paid 38 million euros for him to Port. His failure was resounding: two goals in 24 games in the A series. The Seville He tried to relaunch his career and got his loan a season later. After a hopeful first round, he ended badly with the board, who accused him of faking an injury. “We are not stupid,” said the Sevilla sports director, Joaquin Caparrós, when he saw that after months without playing with the Seville team, Silva was called by his team and played several games as a starter.
André left Sevilla through the back door and Milan decided to hand him over again, this time to Eintracht. His numbers last season were acceptable (16 goals in 38 games), but it is in this season that Silva is finally showing the player that Cristiano himself pointed out as his successor: seven goals in nine games of Bundesliga place him as the third top scorer in Germany, just behind the titans Lewandowski (12 and Haaland (10). Your goal is to gain a foothold on the list of Portugal in the next Eurocup and try to unseat Joao Felix and Diogo Jota of the position of companion of Cristiano. If it continues like this, the decision for Santos will be difficult.