NAME: Loum Tchaouna
Born in: N’Djamena (Chad), on 08/09/2003
ROLE: Midfielder/Attacker
TEAM: Lazio
The deal that will bring one of the best young players of last season, Loum, has finally been made official. Chaounafrom Salernitana to Lazio. After the Noslin signing, the Biancoceleste team has made another promising acquisition for their offensive department, already without Luis Alberto, Kamada and Felipe Anderson. Tchaouna was one of the very few to save himself in the disastrous Granata season with 4 goals and 3 assists in 33 games to vote, with also 4 yellow cards and a fantamedia of 6.52, in his first year in Italy. The Chadian winger, a naturalized French national, had moved this summer on a free transfer to Campania from Rennes with whom he had made his first team debut in 2021-2022, while in 2022-2023 he had been loaned to Dijon in Ligue 2 (29 appearances, 2 goals and 2 assists). He boasts 8 appearances and 3 goals in the French U20 national team.
Tchaouna is a left-footed winger who can range across the entire offensive front, preferring to start from the right side of the pitch. He is a player with great physical power and speed, with excellent technique and a good personality. His impact in a higher level reality will obviously have to be assessed, compared to a team fighting for survival.
Fantasy football advice: it will be necessary to see in which role he will be listed this season, given that in 2023-2024 he was listed in midfield, but in fact he played as a winger for Salernitana. As a striker he would certainly have less appeal, in general he is not certain of a starting spot, even if he is a player that the club is banking on for the future, and for this reason he is a gamble. As a striker he is a last slot in both an 8-a-side league and a 10-a-side league, while as a midfielder he is a 6th slot in large leagues and a 6th/7th slot in an 8-a-side league.