but I had never faced him as an opponent before. I didn’t realise just how strong he really was until that match.”
“For 90 minutes, it felt like a nightmare. It’s impossible to stop him his speed, his footwork, the way he glides past defenders… it’s on another level. Lamine Yamal is, without a doubt, the Leo Messi of our generation.”
Valle’s words paint the picture of a player whose talent is so overwhelming, even those who once shared the same dressing room are stunned when facing him head-on. For Yamal, comparisons to Messi are nothing new but when they come from a former teammate who’s seen both sides of him, they carry a different kind of weight.
