Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe
Influence
Both wore the Real Madrid shirt, in different eras: one left the club long before the other arrived. They are compared not because they played together but because the second took the space the first vacated.
How they met
They never lined up together — what brought them together is the queue for the same throne.
The core tension
One is measured by his records, the other by whether he will reach them.
