An absolute fan of Balotelli, is Moise Kean as unmanageable as his idol?

Moise Kean, the good pick from Leonardo, offers victory to PSG against Basaksehir.

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• Moise Kean should once again be the holder of the PSG attack on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the Parisian trip to Leipzig in the Champions League.

• Arrived on loan from Everton quietly, the kid is slowly making his hole in the workforce of PSG.

• His professional debut, however, was not in line with the immense potential that is his, the fault of small behavior problems at Juve, Everton and with Squadra Azzurra.

United Kingdom, April 2020. While the whole of Europe is confined and swears only by social distancing and barrier gestures, the young Italian Moise Kean (loaned this season by Everton to PSG), has found nothing better things to do than post videos of the gigantic party he organized at home.

Alcohol galore, big sounds and lascivious dances stuck tight, all the ingredients of the good old English scandal are there.

The Snapchat group in which he balances his exploits is private, of course, but the sequences leak in less time than it takes to say "oops".

The tabloids then have only to bend down to pick up the crumbs.

For them, the comparison is straightforward: the Premier League finally has the worthy successor of "Crazy" Mario Balotelli.

Super Mario, absolute idol of Moise Kean

It must be said that the common points between the two men are not lacking.

Born to parents originally from Africa, Mario and Moise lived a modest childhood in Italy, they are both beautiful babies, they are both obsessed with goal and are not clumsy with the ball.

Later, they will also share the same agent, Mino Raiola, to complete the picture.

But this label does not bother the Piedmontese, on the contrary.

He himself swears by the old Citizen, which he seeks to imitate in every detail.

“What haunted him was becoming Balotelli.

He was obsessed with Mario, ”said Patrick Gatti, his childhood friend and former teammate in the local Asti club then in Torino, in

.

So, when he gave him a “Why Always Me” t-shirt in reference to his idol, Kean proudly displayed it after a goal scored with the young

.

"Why Always Moise (Kean)?"

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Very quickly spotted by Juve, Kean joined the training center of the Old Lady at the age of ten and will dirty the opposing defenses in all categories of young people.

Faced with the monstrous potential that the kid suggests, Massimiliano Allegri does not hesitate to launch it as a pro at only 16 years old.

On November 19, 2016, Kean thus becomes the first Italian player born in 2000 to step onto a Serie A lawn. Problem, if everyone agrees that the player is called to become the next star of Squadra Azzurra - as for Super Mario in his day - it's mostly the dark sides of his idol that Moise Kean seems to have chosen to copy.

The player suffers from what we would call "acute Dembelitis".

The symptoms are known: an almost pathological impossibility to get out of his bed at dawn and to arrive on time for training.

In any case, the competition in attack for Juve is too tough and the club does not have the time or the inclination to deal with the beast.

He then decides to lend it to Hellas Verona.

"Juve lacked patience with him"

It was there that the current Auxerrois Samuel Souprayen met him.

“I don't remember that he ever arrived late for training, nor that he posed any problem for the coach.

On the other hand, it is true that in the attitude, he can pass for someone quite nonchalant.

Yet in training, he worked hard, it was far from being lazy.

Afterwards, we know how it works, we stuck a label on it and it's hard to get rid of it afterwards.

And then, it was quickly in the spotlight, that does not help.

"His passage in Veneto was not ultimately a great success (four goals scored in the space of twenty games), the fault of" a lot of physical problems during the second half of the season "explains Souprayen.

Back at Juve, Moise Kean will get a little playing time but nothing crazy either.

Above all, an event will precipitate the end of his Turin adventure.

After an away goal against Cagliari, the player, who suffered from racist cries throughout the meeting, did not hesitate to go and celebrate his goal in front of the

opposing

.

This will make his teammate Leonardo Bonnuci say that the blame is shared - "it's 50-50" - between him and the brainless opposite.

Great class… Despite the unconditional support of Massimiliano Allegri, Kean will be deeply marked by this episode.

The heart is no longer there, the

leaders

feel it and then decide to find a way out for him.

Moise Kean surrounded by his teammates after the famous match against Cagliari.

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Journalist at

, Paolo Tomaselli sums up Kean's passage to Juve: “Juventus has iron rules, it's not like other clubs in Italy.

Kean's behavior has not always been the right one, in the national youth team he was sent home for disciplinary reasons and delays, but overall nothing too serious.

The relationship with Allegri was not bad, but it can't be said that Juve really focused on Kean.

They lacked patience with him and, most importantly, they didn't believe much in him.

Neither in the player, nor in the man.

For them, Kean was in danger of being the new Balotelli… And then they needed cash at that time.

"

Focus on the Premier League

Direction the north of England, therefore, against a nice check for 28.5 million euros.

There, too, the striker did not make a big impression on the followers.

"His first season was not easy," agrees Philipp Kirckbride, journalist responsible for covering Toffees news for the

.

Even if he showed great promise at times, he struggled to integrate into this championship.

And then he also had behavior problems off the field [again, some delays in training with the fiesta confined to the climax].

Despite that, everyone at the club still believes in him.

You just have to see how Carlo Ancelotti talks about him in the press.

“When I was a player, I remember Platini arrived from Saint-Etienne to Juventus at the age of 27.

It took him six months to adjust and that was Platini!

I had the same problem with Hirving Lozano when he arrived in Napoli, and he was two or three years older than Kean… We always have to be patient with young players, explained the former PSG coach when he arrived at club last December.

Kean is a player we tried to recruit when I was at Napoli but he finally chose Everton.

He has fantastic qualities and I'm sure he will be a great talent but he's 19 and everything is new for him here.

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Moise Kean scored two goals this season in the Carabao Cup before being loaned to PSG.

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“Moise Kean said he wanted to win at Everton and impress Carlo Ancelotti, but that was before the club signed James Rodriguez and had an incredible start to the season with Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin at the forefront », Continues Philipp Kirckbride.

Clearly called to a role of

, the kid sees again his future blocked by a competition

in attack.

"He scored two goals in the Carabao Cup but he wasn't even celebrating his goals, clearly he was not happy."

This is where Leonardo came to get him.

Called to know the same fate as Everton, the Kean will finally take advantage of the cascading injuries to score his first goals and make his hole at PSG.

“I'm absolutely not surprised by what he's been doing since he arrived in Paris,” says Samuel Souprayen.

With the Di Maria, Neymar and Mbappé, he can only progress.

And then he had to mature in the meantime and put aside the comparisons with Balotelli.

Frankly, I don't worry about him.

It remains to be seen whether its medium or long-term future will be written in Paris or on the side of Goodison Park.

“That's the million dollar question!” Exclaims Kirckbride.

Everton executives did not want to insert a call option because they believe in him, but if he has a great season at PSG, nothing says that Paris will not make an offer to buy at the end of season.

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Things might even turn out to be a lot simpler than that for Leonardo.

Indeed, our colleagues from

revealed in October that PSG, contrary to what had been officially announced by the two clubs, had inserted a purchase option and that it "would turn around twenty million euros ".

If so, Leo is definitely unplayable in Negotiations.

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