Gary Lineker never thought we’d see another player like Lionel Messi – until Lamine Yamal came along. “Just watching him, he makes it look so easy to beat a player. He goes past them almost as if they’re invisible, like they’re not there,” the ex-England international enthused on the ‘Stick to Football’ podcast the morning after Barcelona’s thrilling 3-3 draw with Inter on April 30. <\/p>\n
For all his understandable excitement, though, Lineker felt compelled to add a word of warning, pointing out that Yamal had already played more than 100 games for Barcelona before the age of 18 – which, in his eyes, was as concerning as it was impressive. “It worries me slightly that they might burn him out,” Lineker admitted.<\/a><\/p>\n Regrettably, Yamal’s workload has become an even bigger talking point over the past six months, culminating in a very public row breaking out between Barca boss Hansi Flick and his Spain counterpart Luis de la Fuente over the forward’s latest injury issue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker never thought we’d see another player like Lionel Messi – until Lamine Yamal came along. “Just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[199,1614,2000,299,154677,161597,140607,7325,123516,104,154678,30157],"class_list":{"0":"post-489644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-h-flick","13":"tag-l-de-la-fuente","14":"tag-l-yamal","15":"tag-laliga","16":"tag-sevilla","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-spain-vs-georgia","19":"tag-world-cup-qualification-uefa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}