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This article is part of Football FanCast’s In Numbers series, which takes a statistical look at performances, season-long form and reported transfer targets…
According to The Times, Lille forward Rafael Leao is close to a £31.5m move to AC Milan in a switch that will see Lille net 20% of any future sale, as well as centre-back Tiago Djalo moving to the Ligue 1 side as part of the deal.
Everton were also interested in the 20-year-old striker and had reportedly submitted a €40m (£36.3m) offer for his services, but they have seemingly lost out to the Italian giants in the race for his signature.
It’s not all bad news for the Toffees, however, as they are close to completing the signing of Moise Kean from Juventus for an initial fee of £29m – the teenager is due to fly over to finalise the deal on Wednesday.
When the Merseysiders officially get this one over the line, they will arguably have a better attacker on their hands.
As you can see, the pair are pretty similar in terms of their all-round attacking game.
Kean and Leao average the same amount of shots per game, whilst there is just 0.1 difference between their key passes per game – the Italy international also completes 0.7 dribbles per game whilst Leao isn’t far behind with 0.4.
Aside from that, it is Kean’s superior goals-per-game average that should help Everton get over the loss of Leao to AC Milan.
The Portuguese forward averages a goal every three games, whereas Kean manages to find the net closer to an average of a goal every two games.
Check out some amazing tekkers in the video below…
Given the fact that the Toffees’ two strikers – Cenk Tosun and Dominic Calvert-Lewin – netted just nine league goals between them last season, Kean’s goal-to-game ratio should be music to the Merseysiders’ ears.
Everton shouldn’t give their failed capture of Leao a moment’s thought when they get a deal for Kean over the line.
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