At 20, center forward Elye Wahi is not only the youngest player among the ten top scorers in Ligue 1, but also the most prolific U21 talent in Europe’s top leagues.
Up to 20 years Most accurate talentsTo overview HSC Montpellier’s homegrown talent, with 17 goals in France, ranks ahead of Lionel Messi (PSG), among others, and is level with Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco) – such values usually ensure that the chances of a change of scenery increase. Club boss Laurent Nicol, who wrote with the French newspaper “L’Equipe‘ talked about his most valuable player by far.
“In January I turned down €25m plus bonus payments from an English club,” Nicol said. Arsenal and Tottenham were traded as potential buyers from the Premier League. “There are many interested clubs. I think if Elye Wahi were an Olympique Marseille striker, he would be worth €60m.” In the most recent market value update at the end of March, Wahi jumped from €18m to €25m – his contract runs until 2025.
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Most recently, the France U21 national player has also been linked to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he could succeed the courted Randal Kolo Muani (24), and in February there were rumors about BVB. According to reports, Montpellier is only willing to talk for a transfer fee of 30 million euros. “He’s destined to play at very big European clubs because he has the potential to change the world,” said Nicol.
“L’Équipe” quoted one of the numerous scouts watching Wahi as saying: “I don’t see how Montpellier could keep him.” He sees the next step for the striker in Germany, “to develop further because he might suffer physically in England”. There are 37 French players under contract in the Bundesliga this season, making them the largest group of foreign players in the German football league.
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