Rafael Leao has hit back at Antonio Cassano for the latest instalment of criticism that the Portuguese forward has received.
Former Milan forward Cassano has seemingly made a brand out of wildly criticising modern footballers and coaches and Leao is one of his regular targets.
The Italian was a guest on La Domenica Sportiva on Rai 2 (via Radio Rossonera) and he discussed various issues surrounding the Rossoneri.
Cassano’s issue with Leao this time seemed to be that the winger ‘thinks he is a phenomenon’ despite having a poor season on the whole in front of goal.
The rants from Cassano often lack some coherence but he compared Leao’s goal tally to players like Marcus Rashford, Kvicha Kvaratskhelia and Phil Foden over the past season or two.
“If I go and see a winger last year, [Marcus] Rashford scores 26 goals and had a great season, he does the two phases, [Khvicha] Kvaratskhelia comes in and does a wonderful season doing the two phases, [Phil] Foden is a year younger and this year he has already scored 20 goals and 10 assists,” Cassano said.
“In Italy the league is not good. The problem is that he thinks he is a phenomenon, he is a good player who has great physical strength, finished. People like Kaka, Rui Costa, Vinicius Jr today how much should they get…he’s scored eight goals in five and a half months in a poor league.”
Leao chose to respond to Cassano on this occasion, but not with words. He merely quote tweeted a video of Cassano’s thoughts and added a series of clown emojis, making his feelings clear.
Cassano also went on to suggest that Leao is not as committed to fighting for the team as a player like Lautaro Martinez at Inter.
Leao has two goals and an assist in Milan’s last two Serie A matches with his form starting to return to previous levels.
