Brighton’s €28m Midfielder Zadok Yohanna Embraces Comparison to Riyad Mahrez
Brighton's expensive new Nigerian signing, Zadok Yohanna, has revealed that his style of play has earned him comparisons to Riyad Mahrez, while his manager has called for patience during his integration into the Premier League.
Newly signed Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Zadok Yohanna has revealed that his former teammates in Nigeria affectionately nicknamed him after Algerian icon Riyad Mahrez due to his deceptive left-footed dribbling style. The eighteen-year-old rising star, who completed a record-breaking twenty-eight million euro transfer to the Premier League from Swedish side AIK Stockholm just one year after leaving Ikon Allah FA in Kaduna, stated that he deliberately models his creative playing style on the former Manchester City playmaker. While Seagulls manager Fabian Hürzeler has publicly expressed immense excitement about Yohanna's final-third attacking qualities, he has simultaneously urged British football fans to exercise patience as the young Nigerian midfielder gradually adapts to the extreme physical demands of English top-flight football.
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