Chelsea and Liverpool lead race for Uruguay wonderkid Gustavo Viera

Chelsea and Liverpool lead a host of European clubs in the race for Uruguay wonderkid Gustavo Viera.

The 16-year-old striker has been likened to compatriot Luis Suarez and recent comments from his parent club’s sporting director suggest a move to the Premier League is on the horizon.

‘I think Europe he could go in a short while,’ Gonzalo Mattos of Liverpool – the Uruguayan Primera Division club – told the Sun.

‘Of course he can play in Premier League.’

Viera recently broke into the Liverpool first team and has been playing for the Uruguay under-17s side.

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Mattos believes the youngster’s physicality means he would be well-suited to the English game.

‘Fundamentally for two reasons,’ he added in regards to a possible move.

‘One because of his great ability to play at the same level against top players or against his own age, his scoring ability, another because he has top-level physical levels, he has a speed and physical level that others simply do not have.’

The centre-forward revealed last year that he is a fan of both Chelsea and Liverpool, handing those clubs a possible advantage in the transfer market.

‘I like of course Luis Suarez from his time in Liverpool. Liverpool and Chelsea are my two favourite teams. I enjoyed the physical side of the English game,’ he said.

‘It’s a top league and I like London, my agent lives there and I have been to stay there with him. I would like to play for either Liverpool or Chelsea but just to play in the Premier League is a dream of mine.

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