Mohamed-Ali Cho

Key strength: Pace and dribbling

Wide creator

In the wreckage of OGC Nice's catastrophic slide to 15th place—adrift with just one point from their last five matches—Mohamed-Ali Cho has emerged as the solitary beacon cutting through the gathering storm on the Côte d'Azur. While Franck Haise's Les Aiglons hemorrhage points and confidence, the 22-year-old French winger continues to produce moments of genuine quality: 5 goals and 4 assists across 28 appearances, finding the net every 322 minutes despite the dysfunction around him. Operating as an inverted right winger who terrorizes fullbacks by cutting mercilessly onto his favored left foot, Cho combines deceptive pace with audacious dribbling to create his own opportunities in a side starved of creativity. His maturity is equally striking—just one yellow card in nearly 1,700 minutes speaks to composure rare in young wide players. With a €15 million market valuation that already looks conservative, the Angers academy graduate has quietly become both Nice's survival lifeline and their most bankable asset. As European scouts inevitably take notice of a talent thriving amid chaos, Cho keeps producing magic in a season desperately short of it.