I'm with Jay inasmuch as I think Real are overrated - but not to the extent Jay is claiming. I do rate Mbappe though, but when you compare him to truly great players like an Henry or a Weah, he isn't at that level. I absolutely think Vinicius and Bellingham are totally overrated and this is coming from someone that thinks Bellingham is a very good player, he seems to have gone off the boil this season. I don't think his (Mbappe) scoring record for France should be any kind of guide, Giroud also outscored Henry for France and nobody thinks Giroud comes even remotely close to Henry as a player.
I think Mbappe's technique is pretty average to be honest, thats why he is significantly below an Henry or a Weah. He is very fast and that gets him 75% of his goals not his technique. Its rare that I see an Mbappe goal and think "top tekkers", a lot of his shots are straight at the keeper too. Same with Michael Owen, his pace got him most of his goals not his technique.
I'm sure the Europa used to be a vaguely acceptable trophy... has anyone SEEN the teams in that table?! And the europa conference table is comical. It's like reading the league table of a pub sunday league.
On the one hand you can say if you win the CL that you had to beat lots of top teams to do so, but on the other hand, before the CL, you could only qualify by winning your domestic league so arguably that made it harder to win the European Cup.
