La Liga 2019-20: 5 contenders for signing of the season

#1 Lucas Ocampos (Marseille to Sevilla, €15.00m)

Ocampos has been a revalation for Sevilla this season.

Although Lucas Ocampos arrived at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjúan in the summer of 2019 from Olympique Marseille with a fair bit of expectation, few could have predicted just how much of a success he would be for Julen Lopetegui’s side.

Playing as a right winger, Ocampos is Sevilla’s top-scorer this season with 12 goals across all competitions. Such has been his impact in Spain that Lionel Scaloni, the coach of the Argentinian national side, handed Ocampos his first international call-up just a few weeks into the start of the season.

With 10 goals and 2 assists in 22 appearances in the league thus far, Ocampos has become only the fourth Argentine on Sevilla’s storeyed history to reach double figures for goals scored in a single league season.

For an idea of how rare this feat is, the last Argentine to achieve it did it in the 1979-80 season! Ocampos’ performances are conjuring up fond memories of his free-scoring compatriots from the late 70s, and he looks to be really at home in Seville.

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Edited by A. Ayush Chatterjee