“I don’t think Lamine Yamal would have started at Barça in 2012», Launched Cristian Tello in an interview given to Sport. The former FC Barcelona winger believes that the Spanish prodigy would certainly have had the qualities to join the first team, but that he would have had much more difficulty establishing himself there at the time.
For Tello, the competition was particularly fierce with players like Lionel Messi, Pedro, David Villa and Alexis Sanchez. A golden generation which, according to him, would have made it very difficult for a young player, even as talented as Yamal, to start. “With players like them, it is very difficult for any young person from the academy to establish themselves”he explained.
