2016 Golden Boy

Agree with that Donnarumma should win it. Can't give Golden Boy to bench players.

Just had a look at the list of players that have won it since the award started in 2003, its a pretty legit list of players

Van Der Vaart
Rooney
Messi
Fabregas
Aguero
Anderson
Pato
Balotelli
Gotze
Isco
Pogba
Sterling
Martial

Exclude the first 5 years and say that again

You are trying to exclude almost half of the award winners

Even then we have Pogba, who you may rate or not but he is clearly more successful than most youngsters. Gotze won the Bundesliga, made a CL final and won the world cup. Pato had hit like 100 Serie A apps and hit over 50 goals as a kid, everyone rated him. Etc.

Its a solid list of prospects.

You see it's not my fault you didn't include Pogba (and Isco) in the list.

Obviously they had talent but it would be pretty terrible to see players without great talent in the list. I'd call the list legit if they mostly find players who actually went on to become world beaters. That's kind of what it's about for me at least. Of course it's somewhat hard to judge the list anyway because most players are still young. But right now quite a lot of them look like "failed" prospects.

My bad, thought I wrote all of them.

Its interesting seeing some of the prices of the high profile moves for the players

Van Der Vaart - 20m (to Real)
Rooney - 32m (to United)
Messi - N/A
Fabregas - 45m (to Barca)
Aguero - 34m (to City)
Anderson - 27m (to United)
Pato - 18m (to Milan)
Balotelli - 25m (to City)
Gotze - 38m (to Dortmund)
Isco - 25m (to Real)
Pogba - 100m (to United)
Sterling - 50m (to City)
Martial - 80m (to United)

Yeah it really should be either Donarumma or Alli.

But neither have the hype Rashford has going for him at the moment.

lol.com quoting tuttosport for revealing it early...and the winner is

Renato Sanches

Rashford second place and Coman third