"The New Ronaldinho" AKA Gerard Deulofeu

I wish the movie Back to the Future was real, don't you? I simply cannot bear to wait five years for the 2013 Champion League group stages. By that time the scores of wunderkind next-Cristiano Ronaldos, next-Messis, next-Kakas, and next-Zidanes will all have surely put paid to all that potential (note: English football will continue to lag til scouts locate the next-Titus Bramble and Carlton Coles, who were the next-Sol Campbell and Alan Shearers, respectively). Life mirrors the old Football Manager games you see.

If you believe the Daily Mail, which I typically don't, Chelsea and Arsenal are locking hor~ er, checkbooks, in pursuit of the next-Ronaldinho. 14-year-old Gerard Deulofeu is the teen idolized today. If you're not impressed, don't fret my fellow football fan... Jean Carlos Chera will be arriving on the scene any damn day now.

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