Football Manager 2022: 10 Brazilian Wonderkids You Must Sign
3. Matheus Gonçalves (Flamengo)
To recover from the financial hit of Martinelli, we turn to a much cheaper option that could, potentially, end up being even better.
At only 15 years of age, Gonçalves is by far the youngest player to feature in our selection, and with his youth come all the usual question marks. He is very, very raw, but his ceiling is so high that any time spent on developing him and waiting for him to bloom could pay off multiple times over.
A left-footed magician, Gonçalves already has some eye-catching attributes, such as 15 in both dribbling and determination, and 16 in flair. That will, no doubt, help him produce the goods straight away in the youth ranks while he works on improving other aspects of his game and becoming ready for the men's game. Can you imagine him weaving through traffic from the right-hand side towards the penalty box, rounding the keeper, and slotting it away? Does it remind you of someone?
When you're buying a player so young and unproven, you are not investing your money into him, as much as you are investing time. Therefore, Gonçalves can be bought for something like £2.8 - £5.6 million, which is basically peanuts.