I'm not implying that
for me he is on a level of talent Pele, Maradona or Messi are...in fact I'm extremely fond of Johan, Platini, Zico and Di Stefano (a dino by now) that seems like quite a freak for his time, those are some of my favorites ever.
In Killian's specific more forward oriented role I still preffer R9's game, yet Kiki has enough talent and time on his side to collect a huge ammount of praise (and add things to his game too) and due to his style and atributes he is a player that can be part of that R9 braquet, like Henry once did too: the big, pacey, powerful yet very skill forward that can decide in a action by their own. All of them different, but leaving aside our prefferences more or less in the same "group".
Also we are living in a time that it's right after a massive oriented metrics period, mostly because in my view (and leaving aside the historical appeal of massive goaslcorers since day one in football, there is nothing new there), there was also a clear need (due to the nefarious Barca vs Madrid agenda) to create some levelled ground in the money maker Cris VS Lio stuff. Anyway the trend for whatever reason, it's already settle.
As a side note:
For me regarding CR and Messi, they are not in the same level and more or less equal stats or titles was never a parameter to decide between the two, I would always preffer "a Messi" as a player.
Of course I'm invested because of being Argie, but at the same time if Messi was Italian, German or Brazilian I would still think the same, if it was Zico instead of Messi in these last years, I'm with Zico, just my taste, view or whatever you can all it.
That's why I preffer some of the mentioned above Kiki too, even if I'm more incline to like a player like Mbappe in his style than CR.
PD: Naming all those oldies I just recall Futre, what a fecking extraordinary player.
Yet at the end of the day like I've said in the other post, if Mbappe collects numbers (more if those come with titles), there won't be much analysis regarding doing what role, from what position in the field, if he didn't contribute in other areas or if he just appeared 3 minutes almost every match, etc. Look at this last CL, watching the matches he wasn't on his best level, yet he has the talent and timing to still produce massive numbers in the competition.
He will also might have lots of assists to his name, a metric that has a lot of weight nowadays, even if it's as silly/stupid as Messi's first assist to Rojas in his recent match against NY Red Bulls or sthg. He would do them more in the style of what CR and Suarez can provide, than the type of stuff Maradona, Platini, Zico, Messi or even Ney and Di Maria did with him as teammates, yet at the end of the day it's still an assist.
Also I feel fans still be more incline to preffer a player of his mold instead of a Erling if the matchup becomes more or less equal in terms of stats.
Anyway, so much can happen from now on, let's see what the newer generations can provide too, how he settles in Madrid and so on, but in terms of enviroment and him as a special combination of athletism and skills, he is in a really great great spot.
He has enough style and talent to be instantly considered among the very best ever if the nowadays possible scenario plays in good terms for him.
PD: from the current CROP I really hope Wirtz continues to grow, what a great fecking player in the making we might have, time will tell, also BTW Kiki is a proven fella and even if he sucks in Madrid, nothing can take away what he already did and that he can recover from a bad transfer too, enough time for that scenario too (see Grizzie post Barca as a more or les recent example). SORRY for THE HUGE POST!
