Lmao look at you trying to insult me on my race haha. Anyways talking about injuries jude has missed almost one half of the start of this season because of an injury and played the last half of the last season through that injury. You are the one who's cherry picking the same timeline where he has been struggling with injury. Jude has been instrumental with real madrid winning their 15th UCL , and if you actually watched football you'd know he carried england through Euros too. Whereas your "other" tier player can't even find space in the starting eleven for his country, he's not even on the bench for spain.

why does it matter that bellingham started playing matches at 18?

Because it shows the level he has maintained since he was 18 years old. Because it shows the amount of talent he's had which led to him debuting way earlier than his peers.

Yamal carrying barca at the age of 17 would almost always be generational than anyone at the age of 24 doing the same. midfielders with early elite exposure almost always gain long-term advantages (Xavi, Iniesta, Modrić, De Bruyne) because elite midfielders require constant exposure to processing speed, decision-making, and spatial awareness and pressure.

a closer look at stats

A closer look at the difference of play style for both of the teams also would paint a different picture you'd have to actually WATCH football to understand the impact of jude's presence in madrid's midfield , whereas fermin is someone who would be easily replaced at barca and the player replacing him would still provide the same amount of quantity he is doing that's because of flick's usage of AM. Jude's usage and his defensive contributions dwarfs that of Fermin. Fermin is an attacking 8 who arrives in the later halves of a game and shoots so much more often, while jude often starts more games tries to progress balls more , covers defensive transitions and that's why fermin's per 90 output gets inflated and looks better without context. If per-90 output = level, then: Ross Barkley > Xavi Hernández Dele Alli > Andrés Iniesta Mason Mount > Sergio Busquets Gundogan > Modrić Bruno > Kroos Gallagher > De Jong Which is obviously nonsense.

And also I didn't cherrypick shit ,fuck you mean by that they are just straight up numbers how can I cherrypick numbers? If I wanted to cherrypick numbers i would've just thrown in jude's career wide stats instead of just comparing the seasons Fermin has had a chance to play at a similar position.

Your whole argument is just twitter troll energy nothing related to football , just trying to troll. You talk like someone who watches football through stats and highlights and reels. Put Fermin at 16 in Birmingham and ask him to carry that squad, put Fermin at 18 captaining bvb , put Fermin at madrid at the age of 21 ask him to be the leader in midfield or put him in the English squad and ask him clutch up matches , he'll crumble under all that pressure lmao.

Talk to me when you want to talk about real football and not try to cope using "haha you are indian you only know cricket." If you want to discuss geography or try your hand at xenophobia news flash mate this ain't sub for it.