While we find the genre of nickname that gives us things like ‘The Bolivian Cruyff’ or ‘The Micronesian Maradona’ to be rather dull and lazy, we won’t hold that against Crvena Zvezda midfielder Andrija Maksimović, who is apparently ‘The Serbian Messi’.
Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea are “among several sides” interested in the 17-year-old, who can play as a number ten or out wide and already has a dozen goal contributions for his club – the artist formerly known as Red Star Belgrade – this season.
Apparently Maksimović, who claims himself to be better than Lamine Yamal, will “not come cheap”, although a specific price point isn’t mentioned.
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