Jamie Carragher has likened one Manchester City player to Zinedine Zidane and Andres Iniesta.
The Citizens recently won their sixth Premier League title in seven years and could now get their hands on a consecutive FA Cup if they beat Manchester United on Saturday to top off another successful season.
With the upcoming European Championship likely to see a significant number of City players in action for their countries, one figure in Pep Guardiola’s squad has now been mentioned in the same breath as two former top-level players who know all about being successful at club level and on the international stage.
Carragher says Phil Foden is just like Zidane and Iniesta
In his latest column for The Telegraph, Carragher had this to say about Phil Foden and what separates him from other English players around at the moment.
He said: “With regards to Foden, I am not sure England have ever had a similar style of player of such a level.
“Foden has more in common with the typical Spanish or Portuguese players, his technique setting him apart.
“The highest praise I can offer is whenever I watch Foden and see that first touch, control and balletic movement in tight spaces, the first players who spring to mind are Zinedine Zidane and Andres Iniesta.
“Foden has that same talent to run in possession as if he is slaloming, his boots with a magnetic attraction to the ball.”
Foden is one of Europe’s top players
After working his way through the youth ranks at City, the midfielder made his senior debut for the Blues back in 2017.
Since then, the Englishman has made 269 appearances for Guardiola’s side across all competitions, scoring 87 goals and delivering 52 assists along the way.
Bearing in mind how Zidane and Iniesta are considered two of the best midfielder players over the past 30 years based on their individual talent and the number of trophies they won throughout their careers, the fact that Carragher has now put Foden in a similar bracket to those two based on his playing ability shows just how much he admires the City star.