Football Manager 2022: 10 European Wonderkids You Must Sign

7. David De La Vibora

Football Manager 2022 Leandro Barreiro
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Club: Levante (on load from Real Madrid)

Nationality: Spanish

Price: £1.2 million

While Matteo Ruggeri represents a great prospect for your left-back position, another LB standout is Real Madrid's David de la Vibora.

Currently on loan at Levante, this 18-year-old is a little more defensively sound in a traditional full-back sense than Ruggeri, but that's not to say that he's not a threat going forward. And at £1.2 million or so, he's another youngster who it's well worth signing up if you can convince Los Blancos to part with him.

At most, you may have to pay upwards of £4 million for this Spanish youth international, but he should be available for a lot less than that amount. For that fee, you get another full-back destined to be one of the world's best in a few years time. Additionally, de la Vibora is one of those full-backs who can become a great winger or inverted winger if you wish to train him up for such a role, and his 'fairly strong' right foot means you could also deploy him on the right side of your defence with only a small amount of training.

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