When a new young prospect bursts onto the scene many are quick to compare them to a current great.
The 'next Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes' tags can often weigh a player down with the burden of expectation. Very few make it to the heights of those that they aspire to be and are all too quickly deemed 'failures' because of it.
Unfortunately for Kobbie Mainoo he will most likely be saddled with the same pressure, but if his performance for the under-21s against Brighton and Hove Albion this weekend is anything to go by, he should hopefully be able to cope just fine.
