You have probably not heard of him. You should have.
Targhaline is a Moroccan midfielder who has spent his entire career in modest European leagues. He has been one of the most intelligent number eights in continental football for years. He has not played in the Premier League. He has not played in La Liga. He has therefore not been written about.
This is a category of player the European press systematically fails to cover. The very good midfielder in the very ordinary league. The press has frameworks for stars at top clubs and frameworks for promising youngsters and frameworks for fading veterans. It does not have a framework for the consistent, intelligent, technically excellent player at a Levante or a Lorient.
Targhaline reads the game. He breaks lines with passes that look obvious in slow motion and are actually rare. He covers ground intelligently. He almost never gives the ball away in his own half. He is the player a top coach would build a midfield around.
The reason he is not at a top club is partly luck and partly the structural conservatism of recruitment. Top clubs sign from top clubs. Targhaline has never been at a top club. The cycle is its own answer.
Watch him. Watch him for one match, with the camera on him, ignoring the ball when it is elsewhere. You will see something the European press has not been telling you.