Presentation: Zakaria Bakkali

TRANSFERS Last month we introduced you to the first six newcomers from Anderlecht. Meanwhile the counter is at twelve. Time to briefly introduce you to the second load of reinforcements. Today: Zakaria Bakkali.


Name: Zakaria Bakkali
Position: Flank attacker
Age: 22
Nationality: Belgian / Moroccan
Previous club:Deportivo de La Coruña on loan from Valencia

Bakkali was seventeen years old when he made his debut at PSV against Zulte Waregem in the preliminary round of the Champions League. He made his debut with the Red Devils in October.
 
Lightning fast, delicious dribble. A huge guts. The efficiency was still lacking, but that would come as he played more games.

Unfortunately he had an argument with the board of the Eindhoven team and he spent the next season with the Reserves, before moving to Valencia without a transfer.

In his first two seasons, he played regularly between the injuries. Last season he was on loan to Deportivo, where he had to fight against relegation as a substitute.

Bakkali has made wrong choices in the past, but otherwise Anderlecht could not have recruited him now. The Moroccan Belgian is still only 22. Some smaller players then put their nose to the window. If he stays with his head, purple-white again has an unadulterated flash player in the ranks. And it did a golden business for 1.2 million euros.