AC Milan, despite going through a very long period of struggling to compete for trophies, always have a superb academy producing top players.
The latest to roll off the production line is Patrick Cutrone, who has been one of the true success stories of Gennaro Gattuso’s reign.
He spoke to Football Italia yesterday, and revealed an incredibly unlikely fact: his idol as a striker is ALVARO MORATA…
Given Cutrone grew up watching Andriy Shevchenko, Hernan Crespo and Pippo Inzaghi, the choice of a guy who’s never even been able to establish himself as a number one forward in his career is just… bizarre. But each to their own.
“My idol? It has always been Morata, he has characteristics that I like very much. The speed, his instinct in front of goal. I admire him, at home I have DVDs with all his and Inzaghi’s goal,” they quote him as saying.
It’s a bizarre situation given at this very moment, probably 99% of Chelsea fans would swap Morata for Cutrone in a heartbeat. Even Blues fans who have never heard of him would probably fancy their chances of improving on the Spaniard.
