Few gamers are afforded their likelihood to make a world debut within the warmth of a World Cup. And after discovering himself shoulder to shoulder alongside Luka Modric through the third-place play-off over in Qatar simply over a 12 months in the past, the reported Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur goal didn’t miss the chance for a fast chat with one of many most interesting playmakers of the fashionable period.
“I spoke with Luka Modric on the pitch,” Bilal El Khannouss recollects, by way of Madrid Universal, his Morocco aspect finally ending fourth behind Croatia.
“And at one level I advised him it was sizzling. He answered me by saying to me; “I’m drained, I’m 38 years previous and you’re 18 years previous. You’ve one other 20 years to be drained like me!”
Might Tottenham Hotspur signal the subsequent Luka Modric?
20 years Modric’s junior, El Khannouss is a kind of baby-faced abilities tipped to fill the void within the post-Modric, Toni Kroos, David Silva period.
The 19-year-old presently plies his commerce in Belgium with KRC Genk, however absolutely not for for much longer. Corriere dello Sport claims that Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool are eager, with Genk hoping to herald an analogous charge to the £22 million one Atletico Madrid splashed out to signal fellow teenager Arthur Vermeeren from Royal Antwerp in January.
Vermeeren was named the Jupiler League’s Younger Participant of the 12 months after inspiring Antwerp to their first title since 1957 final season. Reporter Filip Joos, nonetheless, charges El Khannouss even greater, whereas mentioning a sure Actual Madrid icon once more.
“For me, he’s the participant within the Belgian league who could have the best profession,” Joos tells the 90Minutes podcast on Sporza. “I don’t see anybody else higher than him.
“(El Khannouss) jogs my memory most of Modric. That doesn’t imply that he’ll attain that stage. (The comparisons are) purely when it comes to their kinds.
“We’ve got to take pleasure in him now as a result of, inside 9 matches, he shall be gone from Belgium.”
Bilal El Khannouss appears to be like destined for summer time exit
El Khannouss’ departure appears like a case of ‘when’, reasonably than ‘if’. However what concerning the ‘the place’ of the state of affairs?
Will he observe in Modric’s footsteps at Tottenham? Will he be one of many first new signings in a daring new period at Liverpool, following Jurgen Klopp’s departure?
Or will he take a leaf out of Jude Bellingham’s playbook within the Bundesliga? RB Leipzig have been closely linked of late, although Sky Sports’ Phillip Hinze is taking part in down these rumours.
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