Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said that Lamine Yamal is a genius.
He recently addressed the teenage wonderkid’s comparisons with Lionel Messi, and fans have been reacting.
Speaking during an interview with the press, Laporta revealed that Messi has been the best player in the world for many years, and Yamal will be the best very soon.
According to him, Yamal has an amazing personality like the Argentine football legend, so it’s normal for fans to point out similarities between them.
“Lamine is Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi was Lionel Messi. Messi has been the best player in the world, and Lamine, I think that in today’s situation, he is the best in the world. I think we’ll see, we’ll see.
Lamine has a lot of personality, like Messi, in his time he also had a lot of personality. Of course, Messi won everything. Messi did everything. For me, he is probably the best player in history,” he said.
Hailing Messi as an all-time great, Joan stated that the teenage sensation is clearly heading down an identical path.
The club president concluded by saying that Messi is an absolute football genius, and there is no one like him.
“He is the type of player of which there are very few like him because he is a genius and he is at the highest level,” he added.
