OL looked for their new Benzema, OM a disciple of Drogba, PSG their heir to Motta. And Barça the successor to Lionel Messi. He may have found it with Lamine Yamal, the new sensation of Spanish football, already called up for the selection at just 16 years old. And here he is even dubbed by another legend of the Blaugrana club, the Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov. In an interview given to Tuttosporthe said all the good things he thought of Yamal, “unstoppable in his dribbling”.
But he also expressed some reservations. “He has to grow a lot tactically. He needs a coach like Cruyff to help him mature. The problem is that Cruyff does not exist today. Even the great Guardiola or any other top coach, like Klopp or Ancelotti, are not like Johan…”laments Stoichkov, nostalgic for the Dutch coach who died on March 24, 2016.
