During the usual episode of the “Elastici” podcast by Cronache di Spogliatoio, former Udinese sporting director Federico Balzaretti spoke about Rafael Leao:
The former director continued by saying: “It’s a matter of when you play with those who have that hunger, they play for the goal, they play to win the game, they finish that play. He (Leao) still seems to play for fun sometimes. That’s the difference. Salah, I watched him train every day (Balzaretti was a former director at Roma), he was like Leão, but then he started scoring 30-30-33-32-30-35-35 goals a season. But he used to be a juggler, someone who played with the ball at his feet for fun, but then he started putting up the numbers, we talked about it last time. If you want to be a top player, you need at least, at least, double digits, double digits. Leão is someone who should reach at least 15 goals in Serie A, minimum.”
