Rayan Cherki has entered a new dimension by signing at Manchester City this summer. The best league 1 passer (11 assists) last season with Olympique Lyonnais the 22 -year -old, who knew his first selection with the Blues last June, asserts himself as a rising star of the ball.
Pure talent that does not leave indifferent to start with his coach among the Citizens, Pep Guardiola. “” Rayan's talent is simply incredible. Its creativity in the last thirty meters is extraordinary. And in some matches, at times, we will need it “He said about Rayan Cherki after his first first League game.
The former Barcelona coach is not the only one to be seduced by Lyonnais. Gaël Clichy, the ex-assistant of Thierry Henry in the French Hopes team, also underlined the qualities of Rayan Cherki on the set of the program Generation after
On RMC. “” With the ball, he has so many qualities. They are very complicated players to manage, it's confusing ”,
he said.
Cherki in the footsteps of de Bruyne
But the former French international lateral lateral French does not hesitate to point the finger at what is lacking to the player: his game without a ball. An axis of progression which he will have the opportunity to work with Pep Guardiola and which could have allowed him to match a legend of Sky Blues.
“” He has enormous progress to make in the ball without a balloon, this is his first defect. But if Pep manages to raise his level in this part of football, I think he can reach figures very close to those of Kevin de Bruyne Said Clichy. As a reminder, Rayan Cherki, injured in a thigh, will be far from the land for a period of eight weeks.
