Liverpool are reportedly ready to rival Arsenal for the signing of Inter Milan midfield starlet Mateo Kovacic, who has been compared to modern greats such as Cesc Fabregas and Luka Modric.
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According to CaughtOffside, a move could be edging closer for the Croatian youngster to move to Anfield, but is the 20-year-old really a significant upgrade on what the club already has?
Despite being compared with players like Fabregas and Modric, Kovacic looks some way off doing what those two were doing at his age; the player has just one assist in all competitions this season, while Fabregas, for instance, was notching up double figures in that department for Arsenal when he was still a teenager!
We think youngsters in this country are over-hyped, but it seems the same can happen abroad and there’s little Kovacic has done in his career so far that suggests he is deserving of such attention at the moment.
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