“We’re very different in the way we play,” declares Alberto Moleiro, who has been lazily compared to the boy in the year above for the last three seasons or so. As it happens, the boy is Pedri, and there’s no bitterness from the Las Palmas playmaker, but there is a calm confidence and defiance in his words. Moleiro believes he is good enough to make his own name, rather than hanging onto the tail of someone else’s.
“People have compared me to Pedri, he also played for Las Palmas, he left a year before I started playing, it’s only natural that people compare us, and I feel proud that people do so,” Moleiro tells Football España.
“But we’re very different in the way we play. I like a lot of players, Pedri, Fermin from Barcelona, any player that likes the ball, players that are technically gifted, I can’t give you many names, but that type of player,” he replies when asked for the ones he likes the most.
The 20-year-old is sharing a dressing room with Fermin Lopez this week, after the two were called up for the under-21 Spain squad by Santi Denia. All three are reminders that development is not linear by any means.
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