Boubakary Soumaré is a name that most football fans might not be so familiar with in 2021 but the footballing world is starting to gauge an understanding of a player who was so pivotal to Lille’s rise to French dominance.

The 22-year-old French midfielder has been linked with moves to English giants such as Arsenal, Manchester United, and Tottenham even so that a surprisingly failed move to Newcastle was on the brink of completion only for the midfielder to reject the Geordie club as the move didn't seem ambitious to Soumaré but when Leicester approached the player in February he was distended to be a Premier League player in the summer.  

Background

Boubakary was born in Noisy-le-Sec in France in 1999 and is of Senegalese descent. In Bobua’s (childhood nickname) early footballing years, he was enrolled as a youth player at Paris FC (2006-2011). Soumaré quickly settled into the Paris FC youth set up, and was known as a player who could do everything and usually a level above the others around him according to his U13 coach Marc Moesta and was eye-catching from a young age even though he was described as reserved and shy character.