Gourcuff coming back to AC Milan

Know in France by the name of ‘petit Zidane’ – yes, I now there are a lot of players seen as the next Zizou – and at age 22, Yoann Gourcuff is on his way to became one of France’s finest. Early spotted by the rossoneri scouts, he's a product of the well reputed Rennes academy and was bought by the Milanese side in 2006. After a couple of seasons in the main squad, with a low average games – less than 20 per season – but with a lot of potential show, especially on the champions league – that he won in 2007, where he’d performed good games and managed to score a couple of goals, Ancelotti has decided to loan him to French side Girondins Bordeaux and Gourcuff has seize the opportunity to became even a better and more influential player – witch lead him to became a ‘bleu’ regular and assured a return to San Siro.
He’s the playmaker in Bordeaux’s football, the ‘number 10’ – although he’s playing with the 8 – and has a major role in he’s side title bid (Marseille and Bordeaux are fighting to end Lyon’s run) and took part in 45 games (43 in the starting eleven), scoring 13 goals – at the moment. Technically gifted, he’s still very powerful in the physical aspects, with 1.85m/79kg uses his stature to win a lot of balls in the midfield and to become his team’s primary defense line. He’s not a runner and to stretch the game he prefers to use short or long passes and to appear alongside the strikes in the shooting range. Capable also scoring headers, he’s trademarks move’s include powerful kicks with his right foot and movements from the center to the right or directly to the net.

Tip: Coming back to the rossoneri is a big challenge, but Gourcuff seems apt to the extremely aged Ancelotti’s side. Altought he’s a number ten – witch in the 4-3-2-1 of Milan means to play in Kaka’s or Seedorf’s place, he’s physical and combative attributes will let him be competitive on one of the defensive midfield side’s. Knowing how Milan works, we’d expect him to be a regular used replacement in the next couple of season (besides Pirlo's unusual nr.6, he’s capable of stepping up into any man shoes in Ancelotti’s eleven), being forced to replace Kaka or Seedorf in a regular basis in 2011/12.