Football: why Mbappé, 22, and Haaland, 20, will take power

Goodbye Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, hello Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland!

For the first time since they played in the Champions League together, but separately, the two record-keepers of the France Football Ballon d'Or (six for the Argentinian, five for the Portuguese) will not see the quarter-finals of the competition while the two gandins, insolent of talent, rush towards the continuation with the final victory as horizon.

Transfer of power, did you say transfer of power?

The expression, in this case, appears to be overused and false.

It returns the idea of ​​a decline of the first two and an imminent consecration of the two designated heirs.

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However, CR7, 36, and Messi, 33, top scorers in the history of the Champions League with respectively 134 and 119 goals and nine editions removed from them both, remain two geniuses in their style.

They are rather victims of the etiolation of their team (Juventus and Barcelona) than of the weakening of their power.

They still dominate the scorers rankings in Spain and Italy.

The other pitfall is to suggest that Mbappé, 22, and Haaland, 20, will settle down when they already occupy all the space.

They are certainly the future but already the present of football, two global fires which set fire to all districts of the planet.

It was also the time, but they have already reached the rank of icons, with an already impressive fan base.

Recruit Haaland, "a matter of state" in Spain

The two men run together towards a sensational transfer, made arguably more urgent for the Norwegian, only 6th in the Bundesliga and for the moment not sure to see the Champions League again next season.

Unless Borussia Dortmund win it, which would be a colossal surprise.

Already holders of many records, the 2018 world champion and the youngest player to have scored 20 goals in C1 will normally stretch their power over the whole decade 2020-2030, while Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema, the 3rd (72 goals ) and 5th (69 goals) top scorers in the history of the event, will have passed the baton.

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Europe is racing and bowing before the two phenomena of precocity as they increase each week the height of the bar they want to cross.

In this story, Real Madrid serve as a bit of an authentic football postmark, by rumoring a transfer to their hegemony.

Mbappé knew that, it's Haaland's turn.

“Until now, wrote the Madrid daily AS this week, the recruitment of Haaland was an obligation, all the more so with the difficulty of bringing in Mbappé this summer.

Now it has become a matter of state.

Real do not want, under any circumstances, to slip from their hands the striker who will undoubtedly dominate the football of the next decade.

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The former Salzburg striker promises to be the top scorer of the future juggernaut he will join, Real, Chelsea or Manchester City, the three most active on this file at more than € 100 million.

It is then that he will be even more gauged and evaluated even if no one doubts that he will overcome the next stage.

It is possible that the scoring weight weighs more at Real than in Dortmund.

Erling Haaland this Tuesday in the Champions League against Sevilla.

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Mbappé is somehow ahead, even if he is not at the center of the Parisian project, always left to Neymar.

He will be more so by leaving PSG one day, at the same time as he will join a historic club of the oligarchy (Liverpool and Real Madrid are two tracks under study).

Already world champion, the Parisian crack has more chances of winning trophies with France than Haaland with Norway, even if the pressure (therefore the difficulty) between the two selections is not comparable.

They ultimately resemble each other more in the way we look at them than in their style of play or the expectations that escort them.

“Both are strong, but they are different, analyzed the Franco Argentinian striker Carlos Bianchi in our columns recently.

Haaland is a center forward.

Mbappé is not a center forward, but both are scorers.

Haaland is more goalscorer than Mbappé, but Kylian will be the best player in the world.

If he doesn't hurt himself, he'll be the best in two or three years.

He is much more than a goalscorer.

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