João Félix, from merkato star to Milan crisis symbol

João Félix is a mirror to Milan's crisis, a team that is constantly searching for an identity. After enthralling “public San Siros”, with the presentation in Italy's Cup against Rome, the Portuguese assailant has gradually lost his glow until his end on the bench against Lazio. Clear signal that even the patience of Sergio Conceicão, one of his biggest supporters, is at the bottom.

In fact, Félix was a fixed point in the red formation, playing at all (7) the available games. Long-desired by the club, as much as an agreement was reached in the last few hours of winter merkatos, 25-year-old from Viseu is “listed” gradually, taking with him the entire team, which was hoping at the “his soft legs” to bring some peace in an attack filled with continuous experiments since the start of the season.

Despite Conceicão's various efforts, from positioning as second attacker in a “four stars” to use as a triangle, he has almost never succeeded in convincing, raising a big question about the future. The club run by Gerry Cardinal is carefully evaluating his presentations and the possibility of not buying it from Chelsea at the end of the season is more than real.

Thus, goodbye could be said to renew possible borrowing, a hypothesis mentioned in early February, much more final purchase. A farewell without remorse, given the possible change in the panquea, which would remove Jorge Mende's assistant from the red team.

Among other things, one of the reasons for the fall of Tianni Reynders, who with its insights had become one of the most productive midfielders in Europe, is the exact need to find a place in the Yoão Félix red blood formation. At this point, the real question is: Can Yoão Félix be an asset to Milan by the end of the season, or will it just remain another disappointment?

An idea offered Ricardo Travisan during the show “prissing”, where he expressed his opinion of Portuguese: “It seems like Milan can't even play a part without João Félix. Milan was under pressure from Lazio, and Musah's replacement with João Félix made the team even more unbalanced. This Milan looks like "Harlem Globetrotters"; he plays for show, but they never have a clear tactical idea of balance in field”.