I agree with soul24rage to be honest, it depends as to what metric you are rating him against. As a youngster he looks special and has the potential to develop into a fantastic player especially how he plays at 18.
If we are comparing with the current worlds best, then yes he is nowhere near there yet. I don't think the constant Iniesta stat comparisons help much in that aspect either as it just gets used as a tool to criticise him against.
Realistically it may be 4-5 years until we see a finished article. It also depends on what coaches he has as well of course.
I think that he will end closer to Isco than Iniesta.
Further, the same as how we often say: players like Coutinho or Ozil don't have a clear position in a modern football, I still don't understand what is Pedri's position?
1. he is slow, never shoots, has bad attacking instincts for an "8"
2. for a Xavi's type of a CM, he doesn't move enough of the ball, he is involved too little (even Arthur was a more suitable Xavi than him), he is slow and he is not a stamina merchant needed for a current era, plus his defending is questionable
3. a pivot: too weak, slow, questionable defensively, doesn't have robotic stamina
He is currently overrated because as a 18 years old, he played for Barca, yet we only had 3 capable midfielders.
Cou was injured, Puig sucks, Pjanic is retired.
He played in a team without midfielders.
And then for Spain, he was a starter for Spain, for Lucho, who is some sort of a hidden Catalonian agent, who has a weird agenda against Madrid, hasn't called a single player from RM, plays with a NT consisted of Barcelona B, and plays Eric, Busquets and Pedri as starters.
On top of everything, Spain dominated a lot but in the end had 1 win over 90 minutes in the hole tournament.
I really don't want to hate on Pedri (unlike Riki, for example) cause he is a nice player.
But he is overrated massively lately.
1. he doesn't have a clear position
2. and he possesses some of those famouse "deadly traits" like horrible attacking DNA, weakish stamina, weakish defending, which makes him somewhat good for all position, but not a master for any of positions.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
And people already act as if we should build a midfield around him and Frenkie.
But AGAIN, how?
What is Frenkie's position and what is Pedri's position?
Homestly NONE of them has a clear position in 433.
Frenkie is okish as a CM, but far from perfect.
Pedri is good at all positions, but not perfect on any of them.
And considering his deadly attacking, defending and physical flaws, it is extremely hadr to expect that he will turn into something like new Iniesta.
For the end, I think that a user Vegitot mentioned Iniesta and number of shooting sequences.
This is Iniesta's debut, how many shooting sequences he created in that match?
Also, look at Iniesta's attacking instincts. Even though he was miles from being a killer and a scorer, he possessed some basic instincts to open, run, shoot, make himself available in the box for scoring.
When Pedri is in similar positions, he makes a pass and then STOPS (he is not following the action anymore in terms of making himself available for scoring later in that action). He often acts as the action ended for him once when he made the pass:
, not even that at times. Abysmal compared to this tactical level that we see from Tuchel, Klopp etc.