Alejandro Garnacho is tearing up the Premier League at just 18. JohnnyTheNic really likes the look of him; he is proper.
Alejandro Garnacho Ferreyra is a 5’11” 18-year-old, Madrid-born winger who currently plays for Manchester United and qualifies to play for both Spain and Argentina.
United has such a long history of fantastic 11s and 7s going back decades, it’s no surprise to see another developing right before our eyes. 18 is such a young age to make your breakthrough on the highest stage but he shows zero signs of lacking in confidence and zero signs of being overawed, quite the opposite.
He can go wide to the line, or he can cut in on his right with real pace to shoot with either foot. He has that wonderful seemingly innate talent of showing the defender the ball, sucking him in, then knocking it past him, leaving him in his wake. And he’s an excellent chopper-backer where he advances to the goal on the left, gets the defender close, then chops it back unexpectedly, with the defender committed, to create space to shoot. He’s already scored plenty of those sorts of goals.
There is a fearless quality to his football that is surely part of his youthful age, with absolutely no hesitancy in taking on his opponents and trying to beat them. In that, United fans will see echoes of many past players who only ever played on the front foot.
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