For a while André Silva was the new guy coming forward. At a very young age, he had enchanted Europe with the Porto shirt, so much so that he became a transfer man and a possible center forward for Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal. In 2016-17 he had gone from a single goal in the previous season to 16 in 32 appearances, one every two games, plus five in the Champions League.
This scoring score, at twenty-one years old, earned him the call from Milan. An investment of around 35 million euros in the Fassone era, with the CEO’s idea of making him the spearhead of a team that would have to change the hierarchies. It won’t happen, because Juventus will continue to win, while the manager will only last one season, just like André Silva: 24 appearances and only two goals. From there he began a wandering that led him to wear the Sevilla shirt – 9 goals in 27 games, not that bad – then to Eintracht Frankfurt, to Leipzig and also to Real Sociedad, where he didn’t do as well as with Sevilla.
At Eintracht he scored 28 goals in 32 goals, returning to his initial glories. Then 11 with Leipzig in the first year, when he was paid 23 million euros, and 4 in the second. In short, if expectations become important, Portuguese tends to get worse. Today André Silva turns 29.