Good players usually win a yard on their defenders, great players might win two yards on them, Mbappe feels like he's three yards above all the rest, he's a freak, above young Messi in explosive power, and maybe even better than 96/98 Ronaldo.
What do you guys think will happen to his game once he loses that extra 2 or 3 yards on everyone else?. I'm not really sure what to think about that.
I really, really wish people would stop saying this or comparing him to Ronaldo, who was levels above Mbappe to the point where it belittles a very good player in his own right to be mentioned in the same breath for no good reason.
Up until injuries took hold, Ronaldo was unplayable, Mbappe, for as good as he is in spurts, is not and the hype is ahead of the player.
For Mbappe to be what Ronaldo was, at the same age, he'd need to be better at everything, except his maturity, than he is: technique, dribbling, shooting, vision. The list goes on. I don't thing there's a single facet he is a match for Ronaldo of 19 at, and that's no slight on Mbappe as Ronaldo, alongside Maradona and Pelè are a mile ahead of any other teenage attacker because they were essentially complete in their technical development before even being 20 years old, which is freakish in the extreme.
Mbappe has the world ahead of him, but he's not nearly the finished article, and if what he is right now is the apex for him, then he's a distance away from being in the company of Ronaldo.
The player is a shining light at a time when not many with the raw tools to be challenging for the best player in the world once Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are done, are emerging, but the OTT stuff, like these Ronaldo comparisons do nothing but have the player dragged into a mire that is completely unnecessary.