Richarlison is not everyone’s cup of tea but he has taken every step in his stride to end up at Tottenham and Brazil when few believed.
Who’s this then?
Richarlison de Andrade is a 6ft, 25-year-old Brazilian striker who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and who scored two goals on Friday against Ghana for his country.
Born in Nova Venécia, he got his start at América Mineiro in 2014 after being rejected by several other clubs, making his debut in 2015 and eventually playing 24 games and scoring nine times.
From there he moved to Fluminense for two seasons, making a big impression in his second by scoring 15 in 36 games.
At this point, Watford, at the time a Premier League club, swaggered into the room carrying a garden waste sack of £11.2 million in used 20s, shouted ‘get in the van’ at our man and drove him to the notorious wastelands of Hertfordshire.
He was to stay at Watford for just a single season and played the entire Premier League campaign but only netted five goals. However, that was the sort of form that attracted him to Everton who were in need of such a striker.
The Everton manager’s revolving door had, at this time, pushed Marco Silva into the room, who had been Watford’s manager for seven months before getting sacked for being quite rubbish, but quite rubbish was good enough for Everton who were trying to bleach the Sam Allardyce stink off their soiled body. And Silva thought that Richarlison could do a job for the Toffees.
Turned out he was right because the Brazilian scored 14 times in his first season and 15 in the second, by which time Silva had been sacked after 18 months in charge. Across the following campaigns he would play under four different managers, all of them doing as badly as each other. His form was only good in flashes but he scraped together 13 goals and 11 in his last two seasons at Goodison. Ended with 53 goals in 152 games.
It was a bit of a surprise when Daniel Levy pushed a whole £50million through Everton’s letter box to take him to Spurs. £50million! Everton tried to keep a serious face as they waved him off, then went on a bender and ended up with Neal Maupay in the band. Nobody could remember why.
However, it turned out, in a simple twist of fate, that Richarlison was one of those players that plays better the better his team is. He ups his game. So while there were some cynics who thought Levy had bought him as part of some mid-life crisis, in fact in the eight games he’s played, he’s…
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