goon I've always been impressed by the confidence with which he throws himself at difficult far post finishes and the like, he goes in like an Olympic high jump contender. But he's a stereotypical modern athlete as opposed to a sportsman, and the premise he's displacing Messi among the elite of the elite is a stereotypically modern thing. Players such as Saka and Mbappé have more raw football talent: in fact there's probably hundreds that do.
