Romain Alessandrini catching the eye of big European teams

The nippy little Frenchman has attracted attention from various scouts from around the world of big teams after an amazing first season in the top flight of French football with Stade Rennes.

 With ten goals and five assists from a wide left position for Rennes, he has impressed the bigger teams of the same league and Marseille have made the first move and reportedly lodged a £5.9 million bid for a player who was at their academy until the age of fifteen and left to join Clermont Foot. Alessandrini has come out and said he loves the attention he is receiving from the team who grew up with and it also helps it was his place of birth as well. Admittedly he has reaffirmed he feels he owes Rennes fans and the club after giving him the opportunity to bloom at a good sized team and I think Alessandrini himself and the club know that it’s a stepping stone in his career and one day he will eventually move onto a bigger sized club.

If you haven’t seen him play before, he has all the qualities to be world class. He’s got the pace of Theo Walcott but twinned with a strong core to give him the ability to shrug off opposition when needed and bloody hell, he can spank a ball! There is about a two minute montage on YouTube if you really want to see him and it perfectly highlight what he’s good at, it shows him scoring from the wing with Robin Van Persie-esque volleys into where the spiders live and clips of him drifting into the middle and showing a predator like finishing of a twenty goal a season man, I really hope he comes to the Premier League so I can see him consistently and more importantly, the people who don’t know about him can witness a genuine talent, but if he does go to Marseille, which he probably will do if not now, eventually will, at least he will be playing Champions League football.

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