The France forward Kylian Mbappe has won the Golden Boy award for the best young player in this year, fending off competition from Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembele and Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford. In recent year, more and more young players who have shown how good they are. Such as Mbappe, Dembele, Rashford, Sane, Asensio, Alli, Gabriel Jesus G. Donarumma and so on. In your opinion, among these players born in 1995 or after, who has the brightest future? And Why?
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Experts of last DAILY TOPIC: Who will become the next midfield Maestro after Pirlo's retirement?
Marco Veratti!
The ideal replacement for Andrea Pirlo is Veratti! An Italian just like Andrea, Verratti plays in the center of the midfield much like Pirlo used to early in his career. We have also seen Marco Verratti play as a deep lying playmaker which is exactly where Pirlo played before hanging up his boots.
In terms of quality and experience, Veratti is way ahead of his age with his immense talents already seen in the game. Another thing Marco Veratti has that so many other players don't is the opportunity to have played with the Maestro himself.
In fact, the Maestro himself had these great words to say on Marco; “Verratti is a great player, he is and will be the future of Italian and European football for the next twenty years. He plays more or less in my position, but we are very different in the way we play. “He dribbles a lot more than me and he keeps the ball, he’s the best Italian player both today and tomorrow, and we’ve had good times together with Italy."
For Andrea Pirlo himself to speak so highly of Verratti and add that Verratti dribbles and holds onto the ball better than he does tells of an improvement in Pirlo. In the 4-0 victory against Barca last season, we saw exactly what Pirlo was talking about.
Marco Verratti is the ideal next Maestro in World Football!
To follow Pirlo's footsteps will be really hard , because he was unique, brilliant midfielder and fantastic freekick taker! Today on European football scene are enough quality young midfielders who could develop themselves into a real top-class players,for example Joshua Kimmich,he is brilliant young versatile player who has enough football qualities to replace Pirlo but he is playing more often like a flawless defender so I would not include him. Player who is obvious choise is MC golden midfielder, Kevin De Bruyne!! He is absolutely brilliant and seems that he is better and better in every next match. De Bruyne has amazing talente, fantastic football abilities, great ball control, precise passes, incredible sense and vision of the game. Kevin has great football intelligence and he is becoming a living legend in years to come!
Most people are naming attacking midfielders or wingers. Many of those players are NOT maestros like Pirlo was. Pirlo was a deep lying playmaker that barely defended. In my opinion, there is no replacement for Pirlo. Pirlo is just too unique. The deep lying playmakers playing right now are all in the Xavi style. Verratti, Thiago Alcantara, and Jorginho all play more similar to how Xavi did, then how Pirlo did. Pirlo himself cannot even think of a player similar to him.
There will only be one Andrea Pirlo.
Dreamville
59
It is such a difficult question to answer.There are a lot of great young stars on that list. I will go with Marco Asensio,not because of my affiliation with Los blancos but because of of his obvious talent and experiences. Marco Asensio is probably one of the most exciting young player out there and he is certainly not some fluff in a pan and plays for one of the biggest football club side in the world. Asensio has won numerous titles at his fledgling Real Madrid career,and that gives him an edge over his peers. Under the tutelage of great managers at Real,coupled with CR7 shielding the spotlight away from the Asensio,the path for Marco to roar to superstardom is paved. GO!! ASENSIO! WE LOVE YOU
MRCOOL
47
The Next Legend The Next Star The Next Best GK In History And The Next Buffon donnarumma is considering to be the next buffon he has just amazing vision and diving he is a born leader he is a tall GK which is great for a GK the way ge plays his brilliant saving his team back all the time great player DONNARUMMA~
Rutkos_2
32
My vote has been for CHRISTIAN PULISIC. I don't watch Bundesliga much, neither do I know much about his stats. But, in the recent game of Dortmund against Bayern I definitely saw a spark of a special player in him. Googled a bit about him and found that after Messi and Neymar he has the most dribbles in Europe. My opinion is not the best if supporting by any data is concerned; but I believe that he's got something special. It sounds like a story but it's the truth. Mbappe, Asensio,etc are also good but Pulisic is the one I'll mention. #Instincts #Skills
Maxpower
25
Gabriel Jesus seems like the one with the brightest future, surrounded by a team full of experience yet still very young, he has broken a record of the best strike rate even ahead of his teammate Aguero, the Brazilian is something special, Asensio is also one with a bright future, surrounded by every World Class player you could ask for, the man himself CR7, the French tactician and the Flying Welshman. So many pros to learn stuff from and become a world class finisher.
Timz
19
KYLIAN MBAPPE! Talk about the most talented youngster today and you'll get 89% of football fans, players and pundits alike mentioning one name... Mbappe! At just age 18, Kylian Mbappe is performing miracles and wonders in France and Europe! On both the international scene and domestic scenes, Mbappe has stormed World Football. He already has 8⃣ Uefa Champions League Goals(breaking Kluivert's record) which is the most goals in history for any player under 20 years. That tally also sets him above top players such as Eden Hazard, Dybala, Isco and many more. Last season, Mbappe scored 2⃣6⃣ Goals and provided 1⃣4⃣ Assists in just 43 games. That absurd rate of scoring already made him better than Henry, Messi and Ronaldo at his age. For all who thought his performance was a fluke or a 1 season wonder, he has proven wrong by scoring 9⃣ Goals and Assisting 7⃣ this term. Great Players like Ronaldo and Neymar have already praised the talents and potential of Kylian and with a mentor in Neymar at a top club like PSG which is always competing for trophies and could soon dominate world football, Golden Boy Mbappe has the Brightest future amongst all the youngsters.
ch3nsang
16
Personally, I feeel that Marcus Rashford has great potential. He is England's brightest young talent that has only just turned 20 in thr first team. He is able to make into the first team in Manchester Utd who is 2nd in the league, a decent spot but not the best. He has great skills but has great potential to improve his final ball: the assists, the shots on goals and even 1-on-1. If he is able to work 9n those, he can be as good as the likes of Harry Kane or even Jermain Defoe in his prime.
Dhairya_Rawal
15
I must say it's between Asensio and Dembele..... They're in a situation of make or break where they can either become the best in the world and conquer everything as they're associated with the best clubs in the world or ruin their careers by making wrong decisions.... I see that Kylian Mbappe has been voted the most.... And I also think that he is a wonder kid but personally I think he made a mistake by joining PSG instead of Barca or Madrid coz he would have got exactly what he needs at those clubs and that is limelight.... He, instead went for a less competitive league and a less decorated side.....
cxllxs
13
all of them are gonna be great but my pick is dembele the reason I say this is because neymar came to barca and he was sculpted under messi and suarez and the rest of the squad I believe that dembele will also be sculpted just as neymar was and become the next big thing but hey its a really difficult choice to make only time will tell.