Who is the best player in world football? For the best part of two decades, the answer has been a coin toss. No longer. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were the two greatest footballers of a ...

Ousmane Dembélé was doing what he's doing now: wrecking Ligue 1. But back then, he was an 18-year-old playing for Rennes. It ...

In Mbappé, they have “a striker with everything” who has “underlined” why he is “surely the best player” at this World Cup. Is Mbappé the best player on the planet? It’s “hard to ...

Andrey Santos has admitted that he isn’t guaranteed to return to Chelsea this summer, despite reports to the contrary.

There is a genuine argument that Salah is currently the best football player in the world. He has amassed a jaw-dropping 30 goals and 22 assists in 39 games for Liverpool this season and looks set ...

And at other times, like Tuesday night, he looks like the best soccer player in the world. [Yahoo Fantasy Bracket Mayhem is back: Enter for a shot to win up to $50K] Because even at 17 ...

Now, even artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed to analyze player performance and contribute to the ongoing debate. A recent AI analysis reportedly selected Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé as the ...

Ryan O'Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He's also the author of "Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution." Nine years ago, Ousmane Dembélé was doing what he's doing now ...