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SOFYAN AMRABAT · Defensive midfield · Age 21Current Ability 128 / Potential 160Stamina 16 · Work Rate 16 · Tackling 14 · Aggression 15
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A kid. A squad player. The younger brother of Nordin.
Because Nordin is the Amrabat everyone knows. The Watford man, the workhorse winger off the Premier League, with the name and the caps and the highlight reel. Nordin's card I could've drawn from memory.
Sofyan's I'd glanced at and moved on. One for the last twenty minutes when a game needed legs thrown at it. Potential 160, fine, a future, file it.
Then the kid walked into the room.
And I looked at him properly, in the flesh, the way you cannot off a screen, and the number stopped matching the man.
It was the way he carried himself among the senior ones. Twenty-one years old, in a room full of internationals twice the capped man he was, and not a flicker of the deference a kid that age usually wears.
He sat near his brother. Not behind him.
