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Scott McTominay's startling rise hits another level as Napoli's 'protagonist' crowned the BEST in Serie A
There's no-one in Serie A better than Scott McTominay, according to Italian legend Antonio Cassano.
And he's fast becoming Napoli's "protagonist" with boss Antonio Conte running out of superlatives for the firing midfielder. The Scotland midfield hero scored his fourth goal in 15 games since his £25m move from Manchester United, and it was a decisive one that downed Torino and kept Napoli at the top of Serie A.
Former striker Cassano, who played for both Milan clubs and won 39 caps for Italy, has been hugely impressed by McTominay. And he reckons Napoli boss Conte bagged a bargain when he snared him in the summer.
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He said: "For the umpteenth time, Antonio Conte has made a fantastic transfer when he signed Scott McTominay. He's having a great season. I am very surprised no other English teams tried to sign him at that kind of transfer fee.
"For me, it's a bit like what happened with Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba in England. There you find players who are more physically dominant than you and if you're not a technical phenomenon you struggle. And McTominay is very good technically.
"He has settled in very well in Italy and is doing even better than Lukaku at Napoli. He is clearly their best player - better even than Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. I don't see a better player than McTominay in Serie A at the moment."
Boss Conte has also made it abundantly clear he's been impressed with the 27-year-old, who he knew well from his time managing Chelsea and Tottenham in England. And he reckons he's becoming the hero of his own story amid a stunning revival in Italy.
Conte told TuttoMercatoWeb: “He is a boy who was not a protagonist at United, I knew him well because I was frequently in the Premier League. He has quality, we were good and lucky because he agreed to come in a situation in which we were not playing in Europe and after a tenth place. He could have seen Napoli as a demotion, instead he came to be a protagonist. And time will tell.”
