Gabriel Barbosa is a well-know name for football fans across South America and Europe, not to mention us Football Managers who already know about this player for some time now. He's been mentioned in media in regards as a successor to Neymar, so let's see what can we expect from this youngster in Football Manager 2016.
Gabriel Barbosa is a well-know name for football fans across South America and Europe, not to mention us Football Managers who already know about this player for some time now. He's been mentioned in media in regards as a successor to Neymar, so let's see what can we expect from this youngster in Football Manager 2016.
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- ##fa-male## Basic Player Info
- Age: 18 years old, Nationality:
Brazilian (6 U20 caps / 3 U20 goals), Club: Santos,
Estimated Value: £5.25M, Preferred Foot: Left, Preferred Position: Attacking Midfielder (Right) Striker (Centre), Current/Potential Ability: 141/170
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- Career Stats
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- Player Development
- Gabriel Barbosa's Progress Rate is 9 out of 10 which is calculated by players age, professionalism, determination and ambition. Chanches of him reaching his full potential ability in the game are 74%, which tells us with a proper training and fair amount of first team football that Barbosa could go from wonderkid to world class player status easily and fast.
- Career Summary
- AS Monaco legend Gabriel Barbosa is truly one of the world football's superstars. He has gone on to make 60 appearances and score 16 goals for his country. He made a total of 121 league appearances for Santos in which he scored 39 goals for the club. He joint current club AS Monaco in 2016 for a fee of £10M and has gone on to make 283 league appearances and scored 157 goals for his club.
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- ##fa-thumbs-o-up## Strengths
- Gabriel Barbosa possesses great pace. One of the main reasons to players pace is his overall top speed. Would require work permit which is likely to be accepted during initial application. Is natural in couple of positions and could easily adopt in playing other positions due to his high versatility attribute. His current ability makes him very well suited for Premiership football.
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- ##fa-thumbs-o-down## Weaknesses
- His main weakness is his free-kick taking. He should definitely not be a player to take your set-piece situations of any-kind.
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- ##fa-refresh## Transfer Info
- Gabriel Barbosa has minimal fee release set at £35.5M, but you could easily snatch the player for a fee around £7.25 - £11.5M, Santos will probably be willing to open discussion about his transfer for this fee.
