When two hundred Milan fanatics gathered outside the club headquarters just over a week ago in protest at the preordained transfer of messiah Kaka to Spanish titans Real Madrid, a sympathetic Adriano Galliani pledged “a great attacker will arrive” to pacify the masses and expand on the current-base of quality in the chase for their first Serie A championship since 2004. Inevitably, the profiles and names of this talented individual are being branded around in true ‘Football Manager’ fashion, but one prime suspect has sustained the tag as ‘the next Kaka’ way before the original star departed for pastures new.
Sao Paulo’s box-to-box midfielder Hernanes has been touted as the world’s most exciting prospect and his credentials justify the incredible hype amassing around the 23-year-old. Adept and equally-proficient with both feet, an expertise embraced in the modern-day arena, Hernanes has already shown sufficient evidence in his homeland that he possesses the capacity to spot and deliver astute passes with his extraordinary vision. Deployed to deadly effect as a forward-roaming defensive midfielder at Sao Paulo, the Recife-born all-rounder helps to preserve possession in high-pressure situations and safeguard the back-four with a hard-work ethic and laudable marking and positional senses.
Only this week, Hernanes admitted he’d be 'honoured' to follow the Italian pathway set by Kaka and several other South Americans to compete in Serie A, declaring "It would be an honour and a pleasure to play in Italy one day.” Recommended to Milan by national boss Carlos Dunga, who praised him as acquiring '[Gennaro] Gattuso’s grit and [Andrea] Pirlo’s feet', Hernanes’ dream might become a reality thanks to the lucrative, world-record breaking sale of his predecessor.
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