João Félix, a year of learning

That July 8, 2019 the Wanda Metropolitano auditorium rolled out its red carpet to present the most expensive signing in its history: João Félix. 19 years, 127 million euros, nicknamed Menino de Oro after only a few months at Benfica first team. One year and 15 days later His mark at Atlético it is less than expected, injuries (three) and coupling. The history repeats at Atlético. Because if upon arrival the Comparison with Kun Agüero it was inevitable (17 years, 23 million, a fortune for Atlético in 2006, the most expensive transfer in the history of a minor player) at the end of his first season the numbers are almost the same. Better those in Portuguese. It was in the second season when the Kun stood out. That learning season that João has also passed.

2,479 minutes, 38 games, six goals. 2,451 minutes, 35 games, eight goals. That is to say, almost a tracing. The first are the numbers of Omen that 2006-07, when he landed in the Cerro de Independiente, already with dozens of exclamatory adjectives to his technique. The secondsthose of João. Three games, 28 minutes and two goals difference. Hardly anything. Or, what is written, the contribution of the Portuguese one point above: the Argentine that season scored his last goal with the red and white on February 11 to gradually fade away from the eleven of Aguirre. He João's last was in June, on the second day of LaLiga after the post-break restart, and in reality there were two, one double Osasuna.

The arrival de João to Atlético could not have started better. The preseason Lastly, the last name of wonderful. It fitted his numbers like a glove. Four goals and three assists. It seemed that, in just five summer games, he had jumped to the mili del Cholo, which was done. “In two years the Golden Ball“, than Futre predicted, Portuguese and Atlético legend. But the season and also his cross: the lesions. Two ankle (in October and July) and a muscular (February). 70 days off and a consequence: when he seemed to fit into the Cholo game system, which is not easy for newcomers either, he was forced to leave.

That I expected more than sparks, although these are marathon plays, such as that of the first day of the League against Getafeyeah But what your contribution it is the expected for a first year learning too. He knock on the table de João Félix is ​​expected for the 2020-21 Or, even, for the Champions League matches that Atleti has left in this 2019-20.

The comparisons they are hateful but sometimes too inevitable because its flickering glare has lived up to it, or above, of other big stars arrivals at LaLiga. Players like Hazard, the most expensive signing in the history of Madrid, a year later has marked a goal in the worst season of his life, beset by injuries. Two were Jovic's, whose price was around 60 million a year ago for Madrid. One in nine games he made the most expensive signing in the history of Barça three years later of your arrival. Dembelé. Together they add up four goals less than what he has done João Félix in his first year at Atleti.