Sylla, the 'new' Stuani 'of Girona discarded by Espanyol and Barça

Girona seem to have found their new Stuani in Mamadou Sylla, a Senegalese striker who has started the season in an unbeatable way in five games, scoring three goals and one assist. They are undoubtedly promising numbers for a last minute signing, amid the uncertainty of a possible Stuani departure. It will not be easy to beat the Uruguayan striker, but Sylla's start of the campaign proves those who bet on this 26-year-old player right years who has played in Spain, Belgium and Russia.

Mamadou has a past from Barcelona and Espanyol. However, neither of the two Barcelona clubs bet on the new sensation of Girona.

In the 2011-2012 season, when he was a promising striker of the Barcelona youth squad in Juvenil B, Sylla decided to go to Mataró, although he finally ended up enrolled in the youth team of the eternal rival culé: Espanyol.

In the blue and white lower categories, he did find the projection he expected, he even played in Second B, with Espanyol B, for two seasons. Sylla was a star in the making, after a brief assignment to Racing, who returned to Barcelona to work with the first team under Sergio González. It was his chance. However, it was not the dream comeback and after 17 games, fourteen league titles and three Cups and a single goal, in the 2016-17 campaign, he was loaned to KAS Eupen of the Second Division of Belgium with which he achieved promotion to First Division. . This circumstance makes the Belgian team pays 2.3 million for the player's transfer. It is striking that the value of the Senegalese player was practically the same as that of Felipe Caicedo, a Espanyol forward who is currently enrolled in Lazio and is playing in the Champions League this season. However, Sylla will not play the Belgian first division with KAS EUPEN, if not with KAA Gent, who paid 3.8 million euros, with which he would also participate in two qualifying matches for the Europa League.

After going through various teams in Belgium and Russia, a week before accepting Girona's offer, he had run out of a team after terminating with Orenburg. The season has just started, but Sylla's numbers, three goals and one assist, show her how one of the leading forward candidates of the season, the kind that allow a team to dream of being promoted to First Division.