Rabiu Ibrahim is another great talent coming from Nigeria. He was born on the 15th of March 1991 in Kano. He will certainly be a future star of the Nigerian national team. He has a very good technique, likes having the ball, which is crucial on his position. At the moment he is loaned from Sporting Lisbon to Real Massamá, which dressing rooms and pitch were occupied by such players as Nuno Gomes, Nani or Ricardo Vaz Te, so you can be sure that under good care from specialists, who polished skills of those mentioned, Ibrahim’s talent will be developing in astonishing tempo. Besides, after his good performance on U-17 Championship in South Korea in 2007, where Nigeria won gold medal, there are rumors about interest of such clubs as Chelsea, Manchester United or Arsenal.
Technically amazing, good passer, very good one-two player and great dribbler. He has good creativity and flair, as well as acceleration and pace – in other words everything what an ideal attacking midfielder should have. His only weakness is high number of random attributes, thus we cannot say if we would get a professional workaholic or professional lazybones.
He can be drawn out of Sporting for circa 0,5 million Euros, but for a promise of such perspective development, I think it is worth the risk.
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