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Lamine Yamal: When Greatness Becomes the Baseline

28.09.26, 09:14 Updated 28.09.26, 09:18

Brilliance eventually recalibrates the scale on which a player is judged. Indeed, there comes a point with certain footballers where brilliance stops being treated as brilliance. It becomes the norm. That is where Lamine Yamal is already at.

Produce something extraordinary once and the world marvels at it. Do it again and people begin to wonder whether you can sustain it. Do it every week, for long enough, and something rather strange happens: the extraordinary becomes the expectation. The standards shift. What would constitute a magnificent performance for almost anyone else becomes merely satisfactory for you.

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