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    He’s heard the whispers.
    That his rival is more than that, more than a singular human being. That Pedri doesn't play, he wills football art into existence, doesn't command the ball with a tap of his foot so much as with a glance, a magnetic look.
    That if you were to project them onto that overused-and- gnawed-to-the-bone debate, he is Messi and Jude is Ronaldo.

    Jude can see it. But it’s because there is just one thing wrong with their prescribed roles. Because Pedri, as much as he appears to be, is not the human shifted three spaces to the left in their pair.

    Because Jude is.

    or

    a creative exercise in taking the current goat midfielder debate and its ramifications a bit too seriously

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