With Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi supposedly in the twilight of their staggering, record-breaking careers, there is a desire to see the torch passed.
The pair will unquestionably go down as two of, if not the, greatest players of all time. For the last 15 years or so debates in offices, playgrounds and group chats have been conducted about who is really better.
But if people hoped their advancing years meant the era of disagreements was over, the emergence of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe has put paid to that.
Aged 20 and 22 respectively, Haaland and Mbappe are set to be the latest pair to dominate the sport for a generation. Mbappe's hat-trick against Barcelona in midweek put the Frenchman front and centre in the discussion, only
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