The reason teams like Arsenal do ‘all in’ for the 17 -year -old frame

Football decision -making is one of the elements that the teams look at a footballer and Konstantinos Karetsas gets … excellently in this track. Genk’s 17 -year -old midfielder before even became adulthood (he will do so next November) shows maturity … veteran in his game, both with his team and with our country.

As such, next summer, Karetsas will be one of the most talked about names under 18 in the transcriptional bazaar. And the reason is specific that groups such as Arsenal are willing to spend up to 45m euros to acquire it.

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Before closing in his 18th year, being a key to Genk, he claimed the championship to the end, but without celebrating in the end, competing in 34 Belgian league games, with their performance not to go unnoticed by the big scouts.

With the help of Datamb.football’s data, to10.gr records some « peaks » of 17 -year -old Wonderkid, the fact that some surpasses him … Lamin Yamal and compares him to all under 18 midfielders of all championships worldwide.

Karetsas is not hiding

Karetsas welcomed 28.05 passes every 90 minutes in the Belgian league games, a performance that ranks him in the 5th place on the list, among the under 18 midfielders of all championships. Something that shows that the Greek international is coming forward and asks the ball to do … things.

Passes to… score

By its very nature the « little » is an aggressive player, who always sies to threaten either through execution or through creation. The end season had 2.5 apt passes in the area, every 90 ‘, with Yamal being the only one in the world (!) With more (3.05).

Final pass for execution …

In this way, in the Belgian Championship, Karetsas created 1.85 finals every 90 minutes for his teammates and is third in the list between his peers, in the world, but first in Europe, since only Mastadouon (River, 2.05) and Estevao (Palmeira, 2.09).

At the same time, the expected assists are also behind only Yamal (0.3), with Karesa recording this year’s Belgian Championship 0.24, every 90 ‘.

This is a small example of the things that this season has done this season on the Belgian league stadiums Karetsas and since the big European clubs have the data as a … gospel, then they have definitely identified them. And this is probably the reason why Arsenal level teams put his … hand in his pocket.