Mbappe has achieved more than Messi and Ronaldo at the same age, and is a more effective goalscorer than either of them at that age.
Ronaldos stats in particular were quite average until he was 22/23, thing is though, at some point Messi and Ronaldos goal distribution just exploded, there is no guarantee that Mbappe will become significantly more productive than he currently is, though its entirely possible.
Outside of those 14 goals ALL of his goals are being scored in the Ligue 1 (5th best league in Europe) for the by far most dominant team in France (QSG). A very old Ibra had numbers comparable to Messi and Ronaldo (almost) while playing for a much worse QSG than their current version. Cavani later even improved those numbers. Says it all.
Now people will mention that single Monaco season but they were one of the most offensive and goal-scoring teams in French football history and Mbappé was 1 offensive piece out of many that season. Even bums like Bakayoko looked like world beaters.
Messi's performance against RM as a 19 year old against Capello's RM, when he single-handedly won us 1 point by scoring a hattrick and controlling the game and dominating the best player in the world back then in Ronaldinho, is something that a 20 year old Mbappé has never done to date.
R9 had twice as impressive stats as well when he was Mbappé's age in a time period where there were better individual defenders IMO and when many fewer goals were scored on average.
Not to mention that Ronaldo was twice the player for Brazil than Mbappé has been for France.
When Ronaldo was 20 years old he had scored 145 goals (in 153 freaking club games!) for 3 club teams across 3 leagues. In one of those season he 47 goals in 49 games for us as a 20 year old!
24 goals in 34 games for Brazil as well. Winning the Copa América in 1997 and being declared the best player of the tournament. World Cup winner in 1994 as a 17 year old although not playing a single minute. 4 years later he was by far the best player during the World Cup in 1998 until that panic attack/strange episode before the final. Then 4 years later, allost half-crippled, he won the World Cup and was the topscorer in the process after being out for almost 3 fucking years!
In the 1997-98 season, just before his first serious knee injury, he scored 34 goals in 47 games in what was back then the by far best league in the world. Making a joke out of some of the best defenders in history in the process.
Speaking about Man Utd, Ronaldo had a 100 times better performance against a much superior Man Utd as an oldie where he scored a hattrick and was clapped off the pitch in a quarterfinal if I recall.
Won the Ballon d'Or Mbappé's age as well.
An insult to compare R9 with Mbappé. End of discussion.
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Forget twice, Ronaldo was thrice the player! The only player that I have watched where I am genially unsure if Messi was the bigger talent. Taking about pre-injury Ronaldo here. That guy had everything. Brutal strength and a brutal pace. Insane dribbling, goalscoring etc. The most elite defenders were scared shitless of him and entire training sessions were created to work on how to stop him. You have Youtube videos of a prime Thuram and Desailly taking the piss and talking about him like he was an alien.
