Igor Thiago scored 29 targets in his first and solely season with Membership Brugge.
Brentford then anticipated competitors for his signing and paid a club-record £30m. The ahead arrived as a substitute for Ivan Toney, who was bought to Saudi membership Al-Ahli.
Commercial
“I bear in mind he at all times mentioned his dream was to play within the Premier League. He was at all times talking very extremely of Erling Haaland. And now, right this moment, he is competing with him for the Premier League’s high scorer,” says Cauly, a former team-mate at Ludogorets who now performs for Bahia in Brazil
“That makes me actually blissful to see. I am pleased with him. He is somebody who really deserves it – a genuinely good individual, with an enormous coronary heart, and he deserves to be the place he’s.”
With Brazil desperately searching for a quantity 9 earlier than the summer season’s World Cup, there’s a rising expectation head coach Carlo Ancelotti will embrace him in his March squad.
“For me, on this subsequent checklist – which is the final one earlier than the event – he needs to be in. If he is not, then it will not be justice,” Sergio Goncalves, his mentor from his early years at Gremio Ocidental, a area people soccer initiative, tells BBC Sport.
Commercial
“Brazil is lacking a correct striker, and I consider that is his second. And when he will get there, I feel he’ll make the distinction.
“I’ve already been dreaming about it – the World Cup ultimate, him scoring the successful objective. I am dreaming.”