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Who are the best U21 players in the world?

Joao Neves is without hyperbole the best CM that’s I’ve seen play this season besides Pedri. And it’s not a big difference. Don’t really like comparing wingers to midfielders and whatnot but Neves is basically if you combined Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo into one player
 
Pedri should be the ballon dor if it goes to a Barca player not him it’s because the award is for forwards and not footballers. He is barca
 
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Duchene2MacKinnon said:
Pedri should be the ballon dor if it goes to a Barca player not him it’s because the award is for forwards and not footballers. He is barca
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Yeah I agree with this. It’s Pedri or Dembele for me. But so as to not derail this threat, just wanting to say how high level Joao Neves is. Obviously don’t watch as much L1 as others but He’s like Alexis with elite running ability. He doesn’t have any weakness.
 
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luiginb said:
Size and offensive output.
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good thing he is a midfielder then.

He’s doesn’t need to score for PSG because they have at least four elite elite forward options.

Also he’s small, but he’s outstanding in duels; especially for his size. He plays in a three so if you are worried about defense you can just play a bigger more defensive guy there.

Working out great for PSG
 
To me Xavi is on a similar career trajectory to Odegaard. Incredible talent that is highly regarded but needs to move to a couple smaller clubs to hone his skill and reaches the World Class levels a little later in his career.
 
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bluesfan94 said:
Was very underwhelmed by Neves against Arsenal
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The PSG that played Arsenal is very different that PSG now. PSG played Arsenal on October 1. That was before they signed Kvara and more importantly, that was before they moved Dembele central. A lot of time has passed since then.
 
Savant said:
good thing he is a midfielder then.

He’s doesn’t need to score for PSG because they have at least four elite elite forward options.

Also he’s small, but he’s outstanding in duels; especially for his size. He plays in a three so if you are worried about defense you can just play a bigger more defensive guy there.

Working out great for PSG
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Outstanding in the air too, so not sure how size is a problem.
3+7 as a CM in L1.
 
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If we rank 2003 and later, my top 15 ranking would be AS OF NOW (in terms of actual play+ potential) :

1 Yamal (though I fear he got too many games too young)
2 Musiala
3 Neves
4 Wirtz
5 Bellingham
6 Cherki (his season is better than almost all above him so needs to be seen how that evolves)
7 Doue
8 Nwaneri (potential here)
9 Cubarsi
10 Yoro (IMO more potential than Cubarsi, but lesser season)
11 Arda
12 WZE (so good so young, needs to take the next step, injuries didn't help)
13 Simmons (good but vastly overrated here)
14 Savinho
15 Tel (was impressive last year, his development is stalling, needs to take the next step) or Akliouche.

I'm not familiar enough with the prime young south american prospects to judge them.
 
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Evilo said:
If we rank 2003 and later, my top 15 ranking would be AS OF NOW (in terms of actual play+ potential) :

1 Yamal (though I fear he got too many games too young)
2 Musiala
3 Neves
4 Wirtz
5 Bellingham
6 Cherki (his season is better than almost all above him so needs to be seen how that evolves)
7 Doue
8 Nwaneri (potential here)
9 Cubarsi
10 Yoro (IMO more potential than Cubarsi, but lesser season)
11 Arda
12 WZE (so good so young, needs to take the next step, injuries didn't help)
13 Simmons (good but vastly overrated here)
14 Savinho
15 Tel (was impressive last year, his development is stalling, needs to take the next step) or Akliouche.

I'm not familiar enough with the prime young south american prospects to judge them.
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I like this ranking though Huijsen looks spectacular I must say at this rate he will be there soon
 
Vasilevskiy said:
I like this ranking though Huijsen looks spectacular I must say at this rate he will be there soon
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Agreed. Think most of the names on there are correct but I’m certainly taking Huijsen over Tel. Arda deserves to be there on talent but he needs to go somewhere and get minutes or he could find himself in that Tel zone soon. WZE obviously has talent but has two better midfielders in front of him that probably aren’t going anywhere so he might need to go find some minutes too. So yeah Huijsen and both the Monaco kids Akilouche and Ben Seghir have pretty good claims
 
Vasilevskiy said:
Yeah Arda needs to be loaned to a good team that will play him. Leverkusen could be a good fit
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I mean to galaxy brain a bit, Xabi Alonso to Madrid. Takes Wirtz. Madrid loan Arda to Leverkusen to replace Wirtz. That makes sense to me at least
 
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