For decades Brazil has been holding the brand of the world's leading forge of football talent, but recently there has been a tendency to reduce the number of players leaving the country. The current season has become the least productive in recent years for the export of Brazilian players to European championships. Among the reasons, experts call both the increase in the financial attractiveness of Brasileirao, and the reluctance of leading European clubs to risk, coupled with huge demands, and the increased preference of coaches to use more experienced players to the detriment of the development of promising youth, and even the difficult situation in Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, although no high-profile transitions of the Neymar or Lucas Moura caliber are planned in the near future, the Brazilian championship is still not lacking in interesting and promising names.

Thiago Mendes

Club : Goias
Age : 22
Position : defensive / central midfielder
Strengths : tenacity, intransigence, sports arrogance, ball selection
Who wants: Sao Paulo, Palmeiras
Estimated cost : 4 million euros
Goiás revealed a lot of good football players, but mainly for other clubs: such is the fate of the provincials who are not able to compete with the grandees and who survive, not least due to the sale of football players. Thiago Mendes in this sense can even be called a long-liver. The pupil of the team debuted three and a half years ago, helped the Greens to get out of “Series B” and attracted the attention of functionaries. It became clear that the obvious fate of being soon sold to a stronger club is destined for him.
The first information about the interest in a football player from Europe appeared a couple of years ago, when Mendes had not yet played a single game in the elite Brazilian division. Porto allegedly wanted to include a young midfielder in a deal to return striker Walter to Goias. Either there was no substantive interest on the part of the Portuguese, and the whole story turned out to be rumors, or the Brazilian club decided that it was too early to part with Thiago, but the Greens leadership officially denied this possibility. The first season at the highest level at Mendes turned out to be unstable, but in the last championship it was no longer possible to present the team without him.
Thiago Mendes performs in the base zone, although he admitted that he liked the game closer to the attack. However, if the qualities of the attacking midfielder Tiago are frankly lacking, then the position of the G8 quite combines the capabilities and desires of the player. Tenacious and unyielding, he is perfect in the selections, which for the most part he performs cleanly, without breaking the rules, despite the sometimes somewhat zealous manner, and if the opponent is still ahead, he often catches up with a jerk. It can not only help the development of attacks, but it is also useful to connect, including in the opponent’s penalty area. So far, only São Paulo and Palmeiras have identified specific views of Thiago, but it is probably located on a pencil and in clubs outside Brazil.

Malcolm

Club : Corinthians
Age : 17
Position : striker
Strengths: speed, dribbling, use of free zones
Who wants: Dynamo, Shakhtar, Marseille, Inter
Estimated cost: 12 million euros
The appearance on the transfer market of the young forward Corinthians and especially the amount appearing around him became a complete surprise. More than three months ago, Malcolm did not really know anyone, even in Brazil itself (except for those paying attention to youth football), and on his account there were only two matches for the first team: 12 and 19 minutes in the state and country championships, respectively. Everything changed in early September, when the Corinthians, which had already had problems in the attack for a long time, lost three forwards, and Mano Menezes was forced to entrust Malkom with a base. He perfectly seized the chance and became the starting lineup player until the end of the tournament.
In fact, the explanation is quite obvious. Corinthians owns only 30% of the economic rights to the striker, while the rest is concentrated in the hands of agent Fernando Garcia and his company Elenko Sports, and the amount of 12 million euros is the clause prescribed in the contract of the football player. It was Garcia who started the whole story, wanting to sell the striker and in addition to the best player of the youth team Timao Mateus Pereira (all three recently visited Marseille), who generally belong to the agent 95%. The club, of course, is against it, but President Mario Gobbi has practically no leverage in this case.
However, the matter is not only in the desire of the agent of the football player to profit. Malcolm is really very talented, because not everyone succeeds in breaking into big football so quickly. As well as getting into the list of forty major promises of world football according to the British version of The Guardian. Baptized him with the “new Neymar” Tuttomercatto, attributing interest to the football player to Milan Inter, of course, she was in a hurry, but comparisons with the star of Barcelona or the same Robinho are not meaningless. Malcolm prefers to act as a second striker and likes to run behind the backs of the defenders, is very quick and technical, boldly goes into the game, while interacting well with partners and good at playing out.

Tales

Club : Vasco da Gama
Age : 19
Position : striker
Strengths : texture, technique, kick
Who wants: Spartak, Borussia
Estimated cost: 5-7 million euros
Last September, the idol of Vasco da Gama Mauro Galvao, who holds the post of director of the youth football department at the club, after one of the tournaments praised the 18-year-old striker who distinguished himself there by his game: “Tales is a modern footballer and will win a place in the first team for two years ". But the talented Admiral had enough for this month too: already in October he marked himself not only with his debut on a professional level, but also with his first goals.
The next season, even if he joined the sub-elite Brazilian division, Talles started as a player in the main team, and in the summer he ended up in the Brazilian youth team, with whom he first won the international festival in Toulon (having written down two goals and three assists ), and then won the traditional tournament in Valencia. It is currently considered one of the candidates for participation in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The successes of the high and powerful striker, who had good equipment and a delivered strike, could not fail to attract the attention of foreign football clubs. In the middle of the season, rumors connected Tallles with Spartak and Borussia, and the latter even allegedly offered 5 million euros, which the Brazilian club did not like.

Charles arangis

Club : International
Age : 25
Position : central midfielder
Strengths: universalism, maneuverability, working with the ball, support for the attack, smartness
Who wants: so far no one has announced, which is rather strange
Estimated cost: 3 million euros
Usually they become football players following in the footsteps of their father, but Arangis in this sense turned out to be a unique person: he owes his career to his mother, who worked as a football coach. It was she who at one time convinced her son to continue playing when he almost started to take free bread at a young age, for which Charles probably thanks her to this day.
Another amazing fact from the Chilean biography is that for some time it belonged to Udinese, who bought the rights to a football player at the end of last year, but in his profile you will not find a single game for the Italian team. Due to lack of space due to the overflowing limit, Zebras immediately leased Charles to the Internacional, and after six months they were completely short-sighted, which, after the World Cup, they undoubtedly regretted it.
The universal central midfielder immediately took root at Internacional, winning the state championship with the team and becoming the most valuable player in the tournament, and then proved his worth in Brasileirao. According to the estimates of the popular Brazilian publication Placar, the Chilean got into the symbolic national team of the championship, sharing the title of best volanchis with Lucas Silva. Charles Arangis stands out for his versatility (he can play in any position in the center of the field and on the right flank), endurance, determination and ingenuity. Arangis is able not only to select the ball, but also to carry out organizational functions with it, and if necessary, to independently complete the attack.

Ricardo Gular

Club : Cruzeiro
Age : 23
Position : attacking midfielder
Strengths : endurance, speed, completion
Who wants to : Cruz Asul
Estimated cost: 5 million euros
If according to the Brazilian Confederation of Football, Everton Ribeiro became the best player of the championship twice in a row, the no less honorable and prestigious award from the famous Placar magazine did not submit to the midfielder for the second time: his teammate Ricardo Gular won the Golden Ball. Probably, there is some justice in this, because if you choose the two best players of Cruzeiro of recent times, then these surnames first come to mind.
Ricardo was noticed in the modest team of Santo Andre, sensationally managing to get to the elite of Brazilian football five years ago. The club’s rapid take-off from São Paulo ended with an equally rapid fall into the abyss, but the path of the player and team had already diverged by that time. A 20-year-old boy failed to conquer one of the grandees of Brazilian football in the person of Internacional; he was sent to pull Goias from “Serie B”, which he managed to do successfully and conquered the football community so much that at the end of the season he was invited to become part of a serious and ambitious Cruzeiro project.
Ricardo did not immediately become a star in Belo Horizonte: a chance fell only with the departure of Diego Souza in the Metalist. But this chance was used to its fullest. Ricardo Gular, nominally being a midfielder, shares the laurels of the team’s top scorer for the second year in a row. Gular's trump card is a quick break into the free zone and the final blow. He seems to know how to score from any position and situation. Stamina, high-speed handling of the ball and physical strength, which helps to regularly win the fight for balls, help him in this.

Alexandre Pato

Club : Sao Paulo
Age : 25
Position : striker
Strengths : no longer crystal
Who wants: Fiorentina
Estimated cost: 10 million euros
Alexandre Pato did not forget about Europe, and Europe did not forget about Alexandre Pato. While the star striker is trying to restart his own career in his homeland, periodically, at the level of rumors and not only, interest from various clubs of the Old World continues to arise. Including from Italy, where they are likely to follow the progress and hope to return to the former form of the once brilliant Brazilian in Milan. However, affairs in Brazil at Alexandrera are mixed.
Not without the help of local doctors, he got rid of the “crystal” prefix, having not received a single serious injury in two years, but with football achievements everything is somewhat worse. Pato spent the first season in Corinthians so terribly that at the end of it, under the cheers of the fans, the club got rid of the 15 millionth football player without any hesitation, sending him already on a two-year lease in Sao Paulo. At Murisi Ramallo, he performed much better, but still with big differences, losing the competition in the final part of the season not only to Alan Cardeki, but even to Luis Fabiano.
It is hard to believe, but Alexandre Pato turned 25 only in September, which means that with desire and zeal, his career is still ahead. It is still far from its former ideal form, but it is also impossible to deny a certain progress for the two season homes spent. According to Vincenzo Montella, Fiorentina is already showing an interest in Pato. And if in the winter the Duckling does not leave Brazil, then he will have the opportunity to expand the list of his wishers by the summer. But whether she will use it is a question.

Dede

Club : Cruzeiro
Age : 26
Position : central defender
Strengths : texture, speed, start of attacks
Who wants: Milan
Estimated cost: 9 million euros
Two and a half years ago, Dede, while still a player of Vasco da Gama, already fell into our hit parade like this - a talented central defender then really attracted the attention of many European clubs. However, later he received an interesting financial and not only proposal from Cruzeiro, deciding to wait a while with moving to another continent. Over time, such a decision, which caused a lot of surprise, can hardly be called erroneous: Dede became part of the great Cruzeiro team, who won the Brazil championship twice in a row, and he gained experience and matured, adding in many aspects of the game.
The impressive size of the Brazilian does not affect the speed of his actions, but they are a significant advantage in the power struggle and give superiority in the air. This factor makes Dede dangerous in the penalty area of ​​rivals with traditional connections to the standards: for five years in Vasco da Gama and Cruzeiro he has 26 goals on his account - an incredible indicator for the defender. Of course, Dede is characterized by periodic positional flaws caused by excessive zeal - the Libertadores Cup turned out to be especially unsuccessful in this regard (as, indeed, for the whole team). However, later the football player pulled himself together and spent the remaining season at the highest level.
Although it may seem that Dede delayed the start of his European career, there are certainly many who want to get hold of one of the best defenders of South America and claim to be the main place in the Brazilian national team at the 2018 World Cup. In the summer he will turn 27, and therefore with the choice of priorities it is necessary to determine in the very near future. So far, Dede’s name is not connected with other clubs with specific facts, but rumors about the interest of Milan and Pippo Inzaghi have already appeared in the press.

Mikey

Club : Cruzeiro
Age : 22
Position: right lateral
Strengths : determination, physical fitness, filigree
Who wants : Porto, Juventus, Roma, Napoli, Inter, Milan
Estimated cost: 6 million euros
The strongest Brazilian team of the last two years, by definition, is under the scrutiny of the functionaries of various foreign clubs. One of those representatives of the Brazilian champion who has a keen eye is Mikey's talented lateral. Having waited up to twenty years for the opportunity to debut at a professional level, the pupil of Cruzeiro and twice the winner of the youth championship of the country received it only with the arrival of Marcelo Oliveira on the coaching bridge. Starting as an option for the most experienced breeder Ceara, Mikey very quickly and irrevocably put him on the bench.
Confident, quick and decisive, Mikey can tirelessly plow the edge and interacts well with partners, and his radio-controlled cross-country routes often confuse rival defense. In the season that ended, he counted only ten assists, but statistics take into account far from all the useful connections that led to the goal. He is reliable in defensive actions, although sometimes he can make a mistake and not have time to return (which is periodically characteristic of attacking laterals), but in these components the footballer constantly adds and progresses.
Porte has been looking after Mikey for a long time, seeing in him a potential replacement on the right flank of Danilo, who is about to leave the Portuguese club. Perhaps the Dragons will have to compete with a number of Italian competitors, in any case, rumors connect the brosrochnik Cruzeiro already with almost all the big Italian clubs.

Eric

Club : Goias
Age : 20
Position : forward
Strengths: speed, dribbling, completion
Who wants: Porto, Benfica, Flamengo
Estimated cost : 4.5 million euros
Another Goiás pupil on our list is Eric, who announced himself last season. The functionaries of the club from Goiania immediately identified the potential in the eleven-year-old boy who appeared somehow on their viewing, and attached him to the club school. Their farsightedness became more and more obvious every year, the young striker stood out at the youth level, but the door to big football began to be opened in front of him only last year. Then he made his debut for the youth team of Brazil, distinguished himself in his first match against Nigeria.
In the offseason, Goias underwent significant changes and relied on young players, but even so, in the first half of the year, Eric was content with exits from the bench. Everything has changed for the young striker exactly at the end of our summer or Brazilian winter. Eric scored both goals in the confrontation with Fluminense in the framework of Cope Sudamerican, having distinguished himself once in each game and thereby making a decisive contribution to Goias' pass by a more formidable opponent, and between these fights he made a hat-trick against Atlético Paranaense. After that, the forward position in the starting lineup was no longer in doubt, and Eric in the remainder of the championship chalked up nine more goals, having received the title of the main opening of the championship.
Born the day after the Brazilians won the fourth world title, Eric almost became Romario or Bebeto - as his twice-happy father wanted to call him, but the mother of the future footballer resisted. However, he has all the opportunities to repeat the fate of his failed ties and become one of the best Brazilian forwards: remarkable talent and great potential with him. Eric is not in a hurry to Europe and wants to play Flamengo, something that Rubro Negros bosses are already trying to use. However, famous hunters of South American talent from Portugal loomed on the horizon, which could well adjust the football player’s plans.

Luan

Club : Gremio
Age : 21
Position : attacking midfielder, striker
Strengths : universalism, creativity, dribbling
Who wants: an unnamed club from Spain
Estimated cost: 11 million euros
Gremio traditionally pays special attention to the education and search for young talents and often takes advantage of the work. One of her successful examples is Luan Guillerme de Jesus Vieira. Until this season, few have heard of Luan in Brazil itself, and a couple of years ago he wandered around various inconspicuous clubs and even managed to play futsal. The breeders of the Porto Alegre team saw a promising player in the São Paulo Youth Cup or, as they call him, Lance: the main showcase of talented football players from all over the country. Luan justified the advances made, becoming last year the first star of youth Gremio.
On the eve of last season, the Tricolors lost several key players, the club management did not bother looking for a replacement, relying on internal reserves. Among these reserves included Luan: having shown himself perfectly in the state championship, by the beginning of Cope Libertadores he was already a full-time player in the starting lineup, quickly making him forget about the loss of the Chilean Eduardo Vargas. In addition, Luan turned out to be a very versatile attack player - Anderson Moreira, who came as center forward, used the second striker, acting from the depths, and even the attacking midfielder. 
Technical, with high-speed dribbling and playmaking skills - the fans called their favorite Luanel Messi. Gremio did not intend to part with the leaders, but a miss in the Libertadores Cup adjusted plans to reduce costs. Among the others, Luan may become a victim of the situation: President Fabio Coff allegedly already received an offer from one of the Spanish clubs in the amount of 9 million euros, and would not mind parting with a football player if a potential buyer throws another couple of millions.

Marcos Rocha

Club : Atletico Mineiro
Age : 26
Position : right lateral
Strengths: determination, focus on the attack, working with the ball, responsibility
Who wants : Porto, Juventus
Estimated cost: 5 million euros
Pupil Atletico Mineiro for a long time was waiting for his chance: having made his debut for the first team of Halo eight years ago, Marcos Rocha was forced to dangle on leases for several seasons. He managed to prove himself in America by Mineiro, with whom he won “Series B”, becoming one of the best players in the tournament, and for two years in a row received the award for the best lateral of the State of Minas Gerais. The successes of Marcos could not go unnoticed, and Atlético returned the wanderer home. Rocha immediately became the unconditional title in the Cookies team, first fighting for the championship in Brazil, and then for the first time in history taking the Libertadores Cup.
For the third year in a row Marcos Rocha is rightly recognized as the best right lateral champion of Brazil. He reigns supreme on his brow, tirelessly plowing her from one gate to another. Marcos is good, first of all, for his connections to attacks, thanks to dribbling and perseverance, he can push any opponent, but he is responsible for defensive duties. Rocha likes to work with the ball (not bad) and always, whenever possible, is looking for a meeting with him.
Lateral Atletico Mineiro is quite happy in his club and has never been in a hurry to leave Brazil, but admitted that he still wants to play in Europe. Such an opportunity in the near future may provide him with Port, looking for a future replacement for Danilo, and to help with the transition - Deco, who is the agent of the football player.

Gabriel

Club : Santos
Age : 18
Position : attacking midfielder, striker
Strengths : speed, mobility, technique, completion
Who wants: Wolfsburg
Estimated cost : 8 million euros
The "New Neymar" in Santos began to dream even before the departure of the "old" in Barcelona. Any talented attack player, along with the release from the local canter, acquired a similar status and corresponding expectations. The first who decided to justify the advances made was Gabriel Barbosa Almeida, who was found two-time world champion Zito in the futsal team of Paisies. The young talent instantly began to demonstrate the qualities of a born scorer and break performance records, attracting the attention of coaches of youth national teams. As soon as the striker turned sixteen, Santos laid out a professional contract on the table, and even before his seventeenth birthday, the guy with the inscription Gabigol on his back managed to make his debut on a professional level and score the first goal.
Gabriel gave up his childhood nickname quickly, just as rapidly starting to grow up on the football field. Before the current season, Santos generated high expectations and was not purchased by the latest forwards (Damiao, Rildo), but they did not become competitors for a place in the base. The team’s top scorer with 21 goals and one of the leaders in the assists with nine assists - the figures speak for themselves. Fast and technical, Gabriel performs well in a game with constant movements, and in addition to completing attacks, he can also be useful in a team game. The striking talent of the striker is obvious, and so far only a lack of physical power stands out from the minuses, however, this is a matter of gain, as well as experience.
A year and a half ago, Gabriel turned out to be part of the scandalous Neymar transfer deal: Barcelona paid Santos about 8-9 million euros for the priority right to buy three players, including the then 16-year-old striker. However, despite the rapid progress, it is still too early to talk about the possibility of the Catalans to use this right, but more modest clubs are already building bridges. In particular, a football player’s agent recently had a conversation with representatives of Wolfsburg.

Everton Ribeiro

Club : Cruzeiro
Age : 25
Position : attacking midfielder
Strengths: intelligence, creativity, playmaking, dribbling
Who wants : Juventus
Estimated cost : 10-15 million euros
Twice in a row, the best player in the championship according to the Brazilian Confederation of Football became known to the general public last year, when he was actively wooed in Manchester United. The name of Everton Ribeiro dazzled for a long time in the news headlines of sports resources, but the transition was not destined to take place. The idea that the summer of winter turned out to be wiser than a mistake: during this time, Manchester United managed to leave David Moyes, and Cruzeiro and Everton - to issue the unsuccessful Copa Libertadores, which somewhat cooled the ardor of potential buyers. But in the championship that ended, Cruzeiro and Everton again proved their strength and the midfielder returned to the list of potential tidbits of the transfer market.
Everton revealed himself quite late by Brazilian standards for the reason that at first he was put in ... defense. The first steps in his native Corinthians came at a bad time for the club - Timao flew to Serie B. The future star was then seen exclusively as a left lateral, and they did not rely on him much: after several matches, Ribeiro was given to San Caetano for two seasons, where he immediately became one of the revelations, although at first he also continued to play on the defensive. An important role in the fate of the football player was played by the coach Antonio Carlos Zago, who discerned football intelligence and creativity in his ward. Despite the great time in San Caetano, Corinthians Everton was not needed as a player in the center of the field, but his talent was appreciated by Marcelo Oliveira, who then headed Coritiba.
Leaving for promotion to Cruzeiro, the mentor took his best player to Belo Horizonte, where together he conquered new heights. Everton Ribeiro instantly blended into the new team, becoming the main engine of the Fox attack. The speed, technique and skills of the flanking player allow him to act with equal productivity along the entire front of the attack. The seventeenth issue of Cruzeiro not only conducts his partners perfectly, being two years in a row being the best in the number of assists, but he can perfectly take on the game and complete the episode. In addition, Everton does not stop in development: over the past two seasons, he has seriously added in such a traditional playmaker component as controlling the pace of the game.

Douglas Coutinho

Club : Atletico Paranaense
Age : 20
Position : forward
Strengths : speed, completion, physical data 
Who wants : Manchester United, Atletico Madrid, Porto, Monaco, Cruzeiro
Estimated cost: 7 million euros
Atletico Paranaense has changed his own philosophy before the current season, taking a course towards rejuvenation, and turned out to be one of the most non-age teams in the championship. Actually, there were reasons for this: according to the number of talented youth, Hurricanes can now give odds to anyone in Brazil. Among the young talents of the club, striker Douglas Coutinho stood out noticeably, for some time even making him forget about the loss by the team of the best scorer of the previous Brasileirao Ederson.
Douglas Coutinho made a name for himself in the Paraná state tournament last year, becoming Atlético's top scorer, but breaking into the base in the Brazilian championship was unrealistic - then they only started to slowly let her in. However, after the above changes, the striker gained a place in the main team: the Spanish coach Miguel Angel Portugal made a bet on him in the Copa Libertadores. Although scoring goals failed, Douglas left a positive impression on himself. Having accepted the team of Leandro Avila already before the start of Serie A, however, Coutinho found it damp and began to leave in reserve. The mentor changed his attitude after the main derby of Atlético against Coritiba, where the striker lit up with the other talent of the Hurricanes Marcos Guillerme.
Fast-footed, with a scoring flair and quite physically strong, thanks to which he does not shy away from power struggle, Douglas Coutinho began to score regularly and became one of the leaders of his team. However, what often happens at this age was not very stable. The constant change of coaches and the struggle for survival turned out to be great pressure for the young football player, and closer to the fall, Atletico had to rely on the experienced Cleo. Despite this, at the end of the season there is no shortage of applicants for the forward: the club has already said goodbye to Douglas, having sold 70% of his economic rights for 4.5 million euros to Doyen Sports, which hopes to add him to one of the European clubs in the near future.

Lucas Silva

Club : Cruzeiro
Age : 21
Position : defensive / central midfielder
Strengths : reading the game, position selection, attack support, long-range strike
Who wants it: Real, Arsenal
Estimated cost: 15 million euros
The epic with the transition of Lucas Silva to Real Madrid is unfolding right before our eyes and, apparently, this is already a foregone conclusion. However, a couple of years ago, the fate of the young midfielder was full of uncertainty, and his stay in Cruzeiro was in question. The road to the big football was given to Lucas by the then coach of the team Selso Roth, who found in his person a replacement for experienced Tinga, who was experiencing a difficult playing period. Silva made his debut so confidently that he almost immediately claimed a place in the starting lineup for the next few games, but also quickly lost it. 
A couple of unsuccessful fights, including Clasico with Atletico Mineiro, where he, along with Marcelo Oliveira (not to be confused with the future head coach), “organized” the famous goal of Ronaldinho , quickly undermined the mentor’s trust in the young ward. At the end of his first season, the footballer was already scrolling through all kinds of career options in his head when Cruzeiro headed Marcelo Oliveira, known for successfully attracting young people to his first squad. The mentor assured Lucas Silva of the need for the club and convinced him to stay, although he did not immediately entrust the place at the base. However, already in his second mast in the starting lineup, Lucas took a double and brought the team a victory over Vasco da Gama, having staked since then the place of one of the volanchis with him.
Schematically, Lucas Silva acts as a defensive midfielder, but in the game he performs the functions of a central midfielder, supporting the attack, while his partner is mainly focused on rough work. Thanks to the excellent pass and vision of the field, Lucas can start and disperse the attacks of his team, and his ability to penetrate from a long distance is a nice bonus. However, he is good in defensive actions, stopping opponents and taking away balls by reading the game and choosing the right position. Add to this the reliability, learning ability, discipline and natural modesty, which is a guarantee against star disease - not a guy, but gold