Return to the left and then kick to the far post. What has become Arjen Robben’s trademark has been imitated, not with the same premises, by Suso. Spanish, grew up in the Cadiz Academy until Liverpool decided to focus on him in 2010, when he had not yet made his first team debut. He was sixteen years old and waited two seasons to make his debut with the big boys, with fourteen appearances in the Premier League, plus another six in lateral competitions such as the Europa League and the Cup. A year’s loan to Almeria, doing reasonably well, then Milan who first took him for six months, then bought him out and after another half of the championship sold him to Genoa where he did more than discreetly.
The return to Milan seems like one of consecration. Because if it is true that the movement is more or less always the same, as for Robben it is not always easy to read. What is certain is that in that Milan, decidedly the least strong since the Berlusconi years onwards, it was also difficult to manage to warm the hearts of the fans. Suso did it on alternate occasions, then finding a place in his homeland, at Sevilla, where he also had time to win a Europa League as a protagonist, with many other players who had moved on from Serie A without leaving much of an impact.
This season has not started well, to put it mildly. Collateral ligament problems, then another injury that kept him sidelined for several weeks. Suso turns 31 today.