As teammates at RB Leipzig and with the French nationwide group, Bayern Munich’s Dayot Upamecano and Liverpool FCIbrahim Konate know one another very nicely.

Possibly very nicely.

Evaluating gamers from totally different groups with one another is a reasonably frequent prevalence for a lot of sports activities followers. Though it may be tough to check gamers in several leagues and totally different groups to one another, it would not forestall this train from occurring. It’s uncommon for a participant to talk overtly about these sorts of comparisons.

When requested just lately to check Upamecano and his Liverpool Teammate Virgil van Dijk, Konnat was confused as to how anybody might put the 2 names in the identical sentence.

“What sort of query is that this? You possibly can’t evaluate the 2. With Upamecano we’re in the identical class even when he is a really massive competitor. However Konate informed Eurosport (as he was beforehand captured). @tweet).

Ouch.

Van Dijk completed second within the Ballon d’Or rankings and led Liverpool to the Champions League and the English Premier League, earlier than, sadly, he suffered a extreme damage and will lose a transfer this season. Is that sufficient to carry him again to the identical planet Upamecano and Konate reside on? That is for individuals who like these comparisons to debate.

It has been an essential couple of weeks for the Bayern gamers who took pictures from everybody, however this time it was a bit deep. Whereas Van Dijk is – undoubtedly – the extra well-known (and sure, higher) participant, Konate did not should do his countryman soiled like that.