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Porto's Fabio Silva: The 17-Year-Old '€125M Striker' Destined for Big Things

A few weeks before the 2018 World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo was unsurprisingly the main topic of conversation as pundits talked football on Portuguese news channel SIC Noticias.

While discussing his position on the pitch, Sporting CP legend Manuel Fernandes, who was working at the time as the club's scouting director, threw another name into the conversation out of the blue.

"When Ronaldo was 17, he played as a centre-forward for Sporting's youth teams. I saw him doing things that I'm now seeing a boy from FC Porto do, Fabio Silva. He will be a hell of a 'crack,'" Fernandes said.