Lamine Yamal
FC Barcelona
95.1Performance-led rankings generated from structured football data and reviewed by FootballerRank.
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95.1Manchester City
94.6Real Madrid
92Real Madrid
91.5FC Bayern Munich
90.8Paris Saint-Germain
90.2Manchester City
88.9FC Barcelona
87.8Real Madrid
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