football is always interesting especially the young talents nowadays, whether people/fans downplay it by saying it's not because of yadda yadda this and that. whenever a young player breaks out they often get compared no matter what, doesn't matter what position they play, doesn't matter how old they are - if they make it to the first team and show some glances of what they can be the fans scour through the plethora of players and put them in comparison with them. recently it's getting out of reach no matter how big performances you have, no matter how consistently you are putting up those promising performances you are bound to be compared with lamine yamal, it's just how it is you make it to the first team, you put up some decent performances, you get some youtube highlights the very first comment you are going to see on any posts of you is going to be comparison with lamine yamal, it's bound to happen you cannot escape it.
the prime examples of these are lennart karl and estevao, lennart a promising young talent broke into the first team since musiala's absence due to his injury put up some decent performances in bundesliga and in the champions league aswell regardless to say a really good player with a promising career ahead, but what happens when he does all this - fans praise him for his technical abilities? fans appreciate his hardwork upfront while pressing? no. they compare him with lamine yamal - no matter where you go instagram, tiktok or youtube you will see videos/comments saying "better than yamal btw" - and i wonder what's the point? it's simple. nothing. there's no point in comparing these players (or any) fans have genuinely forgotten how to enjoy the sport, every other day you are compared, every other day you are scrutinized if you don't live up to the comparison they made.
fans have players like jamal musiala, jude bellingham, pedri etc etc the list goes on and this is just scratching the surface, there are so many exciting young players that are constantly putting up amazing performances at the top level and will continue to do so in the future and will also improve as they are not in their prime yet. why can't they just sit back and enjoy watching these players without putting them up against each other.
it is genuinely so absurd now that being so good doesn't get you anywhere in the end you are always to be compared with others. they compare past players with present players, they compare strikers with defensive midfielders, they compare a 20 year old with a 17 year old - it doesn't end.
and the pr stuff on the social media is ridiculous - like what do you mean that a player putting team-carrying performances week in week out and is not even nominated for balon dor because he didn't get enough shout outs on social media? what do you mean that a player who put his club and his country on his back since day 1 till the last day of the season is placed 5th because the club's fans decided to play favouritism and picked their starboy as the balon dor contender just
social media playing a huge part in individual awards rather than a player's individual performances throughout the season is stupid.
watch the player. enjoy the player.
watch the game. enjoy the game.