After watching Lamin Yamal in the past Euro 2024 tournament, I was thinking we will be having another Lionel Messi in him, but now that he has played some real football in a big team especially where Messi played most of career football, I now have a little reservations. Although his age still gives him the opportunity of trying to fit into Messi's shoes, he will have to double his work rate including practice to come close to being Lionel Messi. I have not even seen anyone making any efforts to be like Cristiano Ronaldo.
You cannot conclude about yamal just yet, he's still a young talent who can grow even beyond the confineds of those great footballers in the likes of Messi, he's still very young and still have quiet a number of time ahead of which if rightly utilised, he's going to be another top star Barcelona will be having I'm their history, at his age he's already doing so much and so comparing him to Messi will onlbe unfair and look like making some u realistic expectations but very likely he's going to do so well with Tim, if he stays as long as these others, there's almost no limit to the much he can achieve.
Lamine Yamal has a long playing time since he is still young but if we want to make comparison from when Lionel Messi started shinning in football you will see that he was very young then just like Lamine Yamal is now. Lionel Messi featured in his first world cup at the age of 18 years and 358 days which was almost 19 years of age and Lamine Yamal is also expected to feature in the 2026 world cup which means he will be 19 years by then since he is approaching 18 years by July 13th this year. So far as Lamine Yamal has made great impact in the last EURO 2024 and has also made applaudable contributions towards the growth of Barcelona last season and this season, he is equal to the task ahead of him. Yamal may not meet up with the achievement of Lionel Messi in football overall, but this player has the potentials to become one of the greatest footballers of all time someday if he maintains consistency, loyalty, focus, resilience and hardwork.