Every few years, RB Leipzig move early on a player who looks as if he has been designed in a lab for the next phase of elite football. Ezechiel Banzuzi fits that category neatly. Tall, rangy, powerful, mobile and technically clean enough to play through pressure, the Dutch midfielder arrived in Germany as one of the more intriguing young midfielders in Europe. He is not yet a finished article, but that is exactly the point. Leipzig have bought the projection as much as the player.

​Every few years, RB Leipzig move early on a player who looks as if he has been designed in a lab for the next phase of elite football. Ezechiel Banzuzi fits that category neatly. Tall, rangy, powerful, mobile and technically clean enough to play through pressure, the Dutch midfielder arrived in Germany as one of the more intriguing young midfielders in Europe. He is not yet a finished article, but that is exactly the point. Leipzig have bought the projection as much as the player.