The promise in Lyon’s Nabil Fekir is so much that many have compared the 21-year-old to Karim Benzema, the Les Gones academy graduate who raised the club £32 million for his sale to Real Madrid in 2009. However, the Frenchman himself has another comparison in mind, likening the winger to Hatem Ben Arfa, whom Benzema says “I saw him do unbelievable things with the ball”. Ben Arfa is also a fellow product of Lyon’s fertile youth system but who now acts as the warning for how things can go wrong as much as Benzema, a winner of so many trophies in Madrid, is the poster-boy for what can go right. Now 28, after tumultuous spells at Marseille and Newcastle, Ben Arfa...
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