
Only Time Will Tell The Top Qualities of Kamaldeen as he Joins Southampton-Didi Dramani
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- February 3, 2023
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Former assistant coach of Ghana Black Stars, Didi Dramani has spoken highly of the talents and qualities of Kamaldeen Sulemana as the joins the English Premiership.
Following his £24.6m move from Rennes to Southampton, top football analysts and coaches including Kamal”s long time coach, Didi, have all been speaking about the talented player and what he brings on-board to the Southampton team.
Southampton coach Nathan Jones has been a long time admirer of the Ghanaian and believes he brings something different to his squad going forward as the club’s new record-signing Kamaldeen Sulemana”s unique dribbling threat will surely excite the Premier League.
However, former coach of the player, Didi Dramani in an interview said, “His strength is coming inside as a wide player. He is very dynamic in his movement, very unpredictable where he wants to go with either foot. When he is in space, he is basically unstoppable in one-on-one situations.”
He continued, “For me, he is my son. He is my son in the sense that we come from the same area of Ghana. I know him deeper than others because I knew his mother, his father, his siblings, and I communicate with him in our local dialect. I know what he can bring.”
I promoted him to the older group,” Didi recounts, “You can imagine what it was like, a boy born in 2002 with a group born in 1999, but he had resilience coupled with that pace and dynamism. He soon showed that he was not afraid to express himself”.
“I remember telling him to do whatever he wanted with the ball. That natural creativity of the African player, it is something that we try as much as possible not to kill. We want to continuously develop this speed and this creativity but just give him some structure.”
“His personality can be very deceptive. It can look like arrogance but he is just a very expressive person who says it how it is and is not afraid to speak his mind. He knows how important I am in his life and he knows I am genuine with him so he takes it seriously.”
“He can adapt to the preferences of the coach. He can play as a forward, as a No 9 who can make those runs into the spaces, and as a winger. As a wide player, he can use that half space when he has a wing-back coming past him. He can even play as a wing-back.” He added.
“He is about to turn 21 and he has that creativity, he has that speed and he has that aggression with the ball, as well as the ability to press very high, so only time will tell what player we will have in the next two years when he begins to hit his peak. But I know there is an elite player in the making.” He concluded.
The young talent has completed 4.27 dribbles per 90 minutes this season at his former club Stade Rennes, well clear of the 3.77 by Allan Saint-Maximin, the Premier League’s top dribbler.

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