At the time, when he was still a much lesser-known schoolboy in his early days at Manchester City, it was a description that made Jadon Sancho sound almost too good to be true.
'He has a little bit of all of them,' one seasoned youth football expert said. 'Because he does some skills that I've only seen the Brazilian Ronaldo do. Also the way he runs at people. It's not the same power as Ronaldo, obviously, but it's the same level of skill and technique.
'With Neymar, it's the trickery but also level of productivity.