"It's disgraceful to me that Lamine Yamal is suffering a tornado of recriminations after LaLiga's first Clásico of the season on Sunday -- in which Barcelona were beaten 2-1 at Real Madrid -- when the men in the dock, hanging their heads in shame, should actually be Gerard Piqué, Jorge Mendes, Dani Carvajal, Ibai Llanos and Hansi Flick."
"At 18, Lamine's maturing years have been lived inside the bubble of football, and so his preternatural intelligence and savoir-faire on the pitch, light years ahead of where they should be, contrast to the fact that off the pitch, he's prone to all the same daftness any ordinary teenager would be. More so because he's wealthy, and there are increasingly few people who'll tell him he can't do something."
Lamine Yamal drew intense public criticism after Barcelona's 2-1 loss to Real Madrid in the first LaLiga Clásico, but others connected to the situation bear greater responsibility. Gerard Piqué rearranged his King's League Clásico and persuaded Yamal to be the La Capital franchise president and to attend the match, exposing the teenager to extra media commitments. Yamal, 18, developed inside football's bubble and shows extraordinary on-field intelligence while still behaving like a typical wealthy teenager off the pitch. Proper targets of reproach include Piqué, Jorge Mendes, Dani Carvajal, Ibai Llanos and Hansi Flick.
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