Nowadays you can see numerous players being called from their fellow country fans such as the "english" messi, or the "turkish" messi, or whatevere messi.

We have reached to a point where barely any youngster who is just too good for his sunday league being called resembling to what he is good at. the next Ronaldo, messi, xavi etc. I think we need to relax before giving them such high expectations, nearly 99% of the young players from 2010 have reached their peak. Some got lost, some were just trash, and a few rose high like Neymar and Hazard.

I would just like to know, who are your top 10 under 21s and how far will they reach.

1. Ousmane Dembele - Balon D'or winner
2. Kingsley coman - Balon D'or contender
3. Renato sanches - Balon D'or contender
4. Donnarumma - If not, the world's best keeper.
5. Leroy Sane - Under Guardiola, can compete for the Balon D'or
6. Alen Halilovic - Great talent, but I dont think his peak if he doesnt go back to barca asap
7. Rashford - Wouldn't reach his peak. he will end up averaging 15 goals a season.
8. Dele Alli - great plaer, but needs to win something to earn a place to be a world's best.
9. Kennedy - really talented lad, I personal like him, but needs to fight more and play more to develop.
10. Odegaard - Probably the youngest out of all, but most confident. He needs to think about the team when he plays and shouldn't be overconfident.

I hope everyone can share their best young talents, would love to see your ideas and opinions.

Good list.
I would add Emre Mor instead of Halilovic.
Tielemans instead of Kenedy.
Brandt instead of Rashford.

I actually added Emre to the list but I thought it was too early since I havent seen much of him in any competitive matches. His pre season performances were really good, him and Dembele really can pose a threat to any defence alongside Aubamayeng.

My top 10:

1. Renato Sanches

2. Ousmane Dembelé

3. Gianluigi Donnarumma

4. Kingsley Coman

5. Max Meyer

6. Alen Halilovic

7. Dele Alli

8. Youri Tielemans

9. Hachim Mastour

10. Julian Weigl

@rayrex7 I agree about it's being too early to call it but when I watch him play, he really excites me man. It's maybe because he is Turkish but he makes a difference in the game. He has to improve his timing on passing the ball tho. But he will make it perfect with Dortmund I believe.

By the way I think Halilovic is overrated.

It's basically impossible to predict what will happen to young players. Managers change, teams change, attitude changes, success changes...

The person you evaluate as a young player won't the be same person a year from now. That's a good thing, but it makes predictions essentially impossible.

@sun I know its impossible to expect, in fact prediction itself is an impossible. It relies more on luck than stats and facts. However, I just want to know who will reach or even exceed everyones expectations.

It also depends on the players decision, and that should be noted as a players attribute. If, let's say Ousmane was given offers from Barcelona and Napoli. Based on the two teams history and name, Barca will always be a number 1 choice, but will he play as he wants? No. So if the player follows to the place he can improve as a player and a person, than thats a better choice than taking a shortcut to just earn trophies without feeling the joy to earn them.

Plus this is just a thread I made cause I was bored.

"It relies more on luck than stats and facts"

Hence why I am useless in this discussion lol

See it now, lol sorry. I would like to add Youri Tielemans though.

@VAMOS He is third on my list lol

It's just my opinion but I feel like Sanches is a bit overrated. If you compare him with Alli or Tielemans he is better just physically. However great talent. My list would be:

1. Coman
2. Dembele
3. Alli
4. Tielemans
5. Brandt
6. Renato
7. Odegaard
8. Halilovic (it happens almost everytime that young player like him just goes on loan and doesn't get any first team experience, I feel like he's slightly dropping. Hope he gets chance at HSV)
9. Mastour (although he is more of skiller/showboat than complete player from what I heard)
10. Kennedy

I would add my Niguez, Saul Niguez with Oliver Torres two gems from Atletico.
Lucas Vasquez from Madrid, is he young enough ?

my top 3list:

1.kurt zouma
2.kurt zouma
3.kurt zouma

Mine are all under 24 at least.

1. Martial
2. Zouma
3. Dembele
4. Coman
5. Umtiti
6. Digne
7. Pogba
8. Rabbiot

Umm... I don't know why, but I feel like all the player I named had something in common. Something that will make them all play together in one incredible team in the future. I have no idea what it is though. ;P

Lucas Vazquez is 25 years old. I'd go with Asensio being a possible future Ballon d'Or contender if he works very hard. Odegaard and Saul are my top 2 though.

Yeah how come the list doesn't have the 2 youngster from Real.

Asensio to me is a must

Ah ok Dynast, he looks pretty young tho :)

Jese was better than Asensio at his age, look where is here, we used to call him future ballon D'or contender and he is no where near of achieving this. All the players listed are under 20 aside of Coman. Asensio is a great player, but I still want to see more of him before judging him any more.

He needs to be a player madrid can rely on without the BBC. He may have scored a wonder vs Sevilla, but I just think we need more time watching him. I may be wrong, but that's just my 2 cents.

Gabriel Jesus

My top ten "Little Messis" under age 24 are:

1. Dybala
2. Gabriel Jesus
3. Dembele
4. Emre Mor
5. Donnarumma
6. Sanches
7. Coman
8. Pogba
9. Asensio
10. Niguez

My list is not in order....just my top ten Ballon'Dor contenders...feel free to comment or correct me!!

Dybala, guys, Dybala..