This is becoming a bit tedious regarding the Messi comparisons.
He is not similar to Messi in his approach due to differences in his atributes, this can be seen in both style and game, players with the pace, power and dribbling ability of a Messi, would always tend to run over teams, more in their youth, no matter how intelliegent they were since a kid, or their range of abilities already there, they would just burst like a ball of fire.
It doesn't matter if Messi due to diff reasons, that went from permitts, avoding loosing him for having too many top players, injuries, the level and sate of Barca when he appeared didn't started to be a regular sooner, just watch old vids from him in Reserve, his first matches, the differences are clearly there.
Messi was explosive and dribbling oriented since day one. Still, had his passes, his overall game of course, since he was an enganche as a kid in Newell's, yet his tendency to be electric was clear. Also while being "a tad sellfish" due to his ability, he was always since a boy: team oriented and like Zico, very goal oriented too.
Regarding Yamal, being in the spotlight since day one, has been awesome in dealing with that scenario. A very mature player most of times in his decision making and an ability that can provide him an All Time Status and even a priviledge place among those on the very very top. He just started and he already can retire in terms of titles and he had done great. He can end with what he already achieved and might be considered his progression as the best player ever, at least in terms of achievements, who the feck knows?. Yet on his own right, with his style, with his atributes.
To make direct comparisons in terms of atributes with Messi and conclude because he is already a starter doing amazing shyte he is intrinsically better in terms of ability and characteristics, it's simplistic, a tad silly and more when both are diff players in terms of build, tendencies, atributes, with of course lot of other aspects that both share in common.
To also think that Yamal cannot start scoring for fun in years to come? it's silly too, that can even have a greater build and while not in the same realm, improve his dribbling, it's silly too.
The only thing that can be said, it's that Messi was always more goal oriented in his youngster carreer, that still was this way even when he got closer to first division and at the same time he was as wasteful or even more than Yamal has been at times, I'll say even more because he put himself throught his dribbling in scoring potions time and again and he wasn't as calm as he rapidly became. More than probably because he wanted to forced his inclusion and he was a bit sellfish and rushed up plays in many of those ocassions.
At the end we can say YAMAL already HAS a carreer (and a great one) and he just started, when Messi was just merely starting.
Yet we can say that even if it was in reserve, just way less matches, etc, Messi was a diff specimen in terms of some atributes (more rare ones). And on the other hand, this doesn't mean that even with Messi tons of achievements in terms of titles, stats and such, Yamal cannot even surpasse those, more in the way he just started with a bang.
For me Yamal's intelligence, even the emotional one to deal with all the praise around and the way he just "plays", screams like the greatest.
Yamal "juega a la pelota" (like Diego, like R9, Like Pele, like Messi, etc in such regard they all feel the same), he treates the Pro Sport, like a game without forgetting that still is a Pro Sport and its demands. This is one of the greatest traits of the ones I feel are/were the greatest ever. So far he has been outstanding in that overall intelligence and THIS is a an tribute that I find time and again very hard to actually be praise by lots of fans.
PD side note: Let's agree with what the term history actually implies: the whole fecking extension of the game (this remineded me of a chat regarding Cristiano and that "he only", when players like Puskas already scored for fun even more than him and Messi in terms of ratio.
I know that in this forum we would tend to talk in morte recent terms, yet nor Yamal, nor Messi or Rooney, nor R9, nor Diego, nor Sivori, nor Pele, where before, after or in between the only really young kids playing at top flight first division football at high level to state those "only Rooney" and such.
What it's NEW with Yamal, it's him being in the Spotlight, in the most overexpose period of the game (due to current tech) doing his thing, a thing he does in a way like the greatest have done in the past, with an "amateur" approach.
