hammersmithlad
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Check his stats, see his videos .
This guy will play for Top clubs sooner or later.
He is more skillful than Riyad imo.
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/137021/Show/Saïd-Benrahma
Currently these two are worlds apart.
Since moving down south Brentford is my local football team & have been following them for years.
The assumption is correct that Benrahma is far more similar to Mahrez than say Sane & certainly would not be a like for like adjustment.
Currently Benhrama, as aluded to by another poster, tries to do too much on the ball & would infuriate Pep. Since Mahrez has arrived to City, I've seen him mature from a player that always want to take people on like a Fifa video game to now understanding the importance of space, positioning & decision making. The latter still needs some work IMO.
I've only seen rare flashes of this from Benhrama in the Championship & most of the time his tricks are successful. If he tries this in the Premiership, he will be found out unless he improves the aforementioned skills.
Perhaps the best example of my analysis of him was his most recent game against Fulham where he was pretty average, tackled & crowded out early on but persisted & ended up scoring a goal by following up the space in the penalty area. He needs to do more of this & less of the show pony stuff.