As Pippo will probably remember, I was a fairly heavy critic of Suso last season. His immaturity and selfishness wound me up and I considered him a poor man's Menez.
Pippo in fact agreed with this at one point, and it was frustrating because I knew how much talent the young Spaniard had.
Vincenzo Montella is the best thing to ever happen to Suso - with every passing game more and more of the selfishness and head down play is being eradicated and he looks up and adds creativity with fine assists to his game. Indeed, of the past 9 goals, he's scored or assisted 7 of them.
Montella has polished this rough gem and turned him into what is turning into a world-beating player. We got him for free, and over the past few months he's grown into our best attacking threat by a mile, putting his value into the £30M range easily.
I am so glad my fears have been eradicated. I saw him going the way of Taraabt - thankfully the right coach at the right time in his career has cultivated the best out of him and from nowhere Suso is alongside Romagnoli and Donnarumma as one of our absolute marquee players.