Age: 16 Club: Benfica Position: Winger Right/Left Value: £28.5k The highly-rated winger Joao Filipe has been tracked by Barcelona and Manchester United in real life and is one of the best young talents on Football Manager 2016. The Benfica academy graduate becomes an assist king and can also be deployed as an inside forward (and therefore pitch in with a few goals as well). Aged just 16, he can be plucked out of Portugal relatively easily and if you nurture his raw ability then you should reap the rewards come 2017-18 (and he actually played well during my 2016-17 season also). If you don't buy him early then you will have to fight off stuff competition from a host of top sides and will be expected to pay around £30 million for his services.
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