It’s really difficult not to get excited by Lamine Yamal.
The problem for us all is that the expectation on his shoulders already is at a preposterous level.
During the commentary of the Spain vs Croatia game in the UK, the analysts even mentioned him in the same breath as Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona.
Frankly, that’s absurd, and might be the one thing over time that ends up weighing far too heavily on his shoulders.
Special players like Lamine Yamal come along once in a generation if you’re lucky, and it is so, so easy to bestow them as ‘the new .