A Barcelona official has tipped Lamine Yamal to surpass even Lionel Messi, because the membership consistently searches for the following model of the teenage sensation.
Messi lays declare to being arguably the biggest footballer not solely throughout the realms of Barcelona’s historical past, however of all time. Nonetheless, even the longer term nice had performed solely a handful of first-team matches by the point he turned 18, in contrast to Yamal, who grew to become the membership’s most necessary participant on the age of 16.
Andrea Mancini, son of Italian legend Roberto, is employed in Barcelona’s sporting division underneath director Deco and is tasked with discovering the following Yamal, which is clearly no straightforward feat.
“I’m in search of new Lamine Yamals,” he instructed Gazzetta dello Sport.
“The membership’s problem is to get a minimum of 4 or 5 kids from La Masia into the first-team yearly. And the problem is met yearly. Take a look at Yamal, it is easy to say, however he is been right here for 3 years now. He’ll turn out to be stronger than everybody, even Messi.”
Even when his early impression has been larger than Messi on the similar age, what Yamal has not but had the possibility to do is carry out at his game-changing degree over a protracted interval of time period.
Messi’s success has been in consistency and longevity, having fun with a far longer peak than a typical participant, even one at a world class degree, would have. He exceeded 30 targets in 13 successive seasons for Barcelona, remarkably scoring as many as 73 instances throughout 2011/12 alone.
Yamal isn’t but a prolific goalscorer, however neither was Messi till after he turned 21.
Barcelona count on Yamal to be with them for a protracted time frame. A €250m bid from Paris Saint-Germain was rejected final summer time, in the same vein to Inter failing with such a suggestion to take Messi to Serie A in 2006. Deco has warned that gives for Yamal will not even be thought-about as a brand new contract for the teenager phenom is within the works.
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