Throughout his whole AC Milan career, Andrea Bertolacci will have that transfer fee to justify.
The club paid €20 million for the 24-year-old midfielder, one of the biggest deals in all of Europe this summer. Rightly or wrongly, it’s now up to him to play up to that price.
But he does have the tools at his disposal to do it—even if those tools still need a bit of sharpening.
Bertolacci is going to score goals and set them up. He’s a creative influence in midfield and an ambitious shot-taker with a ferocious left foot, although he can also use his right.