Next World Cup stars? Meet Real Madrid's next Galactico and Spurs' wonderkid

Imagery by Alice DaniellEach World Cup presents us with a new footballing star. Enzo Fernandez in Qatar. Kylian Mbappe in Russia. James Rodriguez in Brazil. Who will it be in the USA, Canada and Mexico?Sky Sports has used Gemini Sports, a mobile-first, next-generation command centre for squad planning, to provide insight into which Premier League players these potential breakout stars are statistically most similar to. It has been a remarkable rise for the RB Leipzig forward. Liverpool have made Yan Diomande their top target for the right-wing position after Mohamed Salah's exit. It was only a year ago that the German club plucked him from relative obscurity in a £17m deal from Leganes.The price has gone up for the Ivory Coast international, who is also wanted by Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United. RB Leipzig are demanding more than £86m (€100m) for the 19-year-old. He had only started half a dozen games at Leganes when he moved last summer.Diomande has been a revelation in his first Bundesliga season, scoring 12 goals and providing eight assists, while completing the most successful dribbles of any other player in the competition. His 118 completed take-ons were 50 more than the next-best player.Dribbling is Diomande's super skill, and Ivory Coast, having failed to qualify for the last two World Cups, will hope their teenage star can light up the tournament this summer with his devastating skills. He will form a forward line that includes Manchester United's Amad Diallo. Reaching the knockout stages would mark an historic achievement for the African nation, which has never made it out of the groups at the World Cup. Diomande could come up against his Leipzig captain, David Raum, when they face Group E opponents Germany in Toronto.Diomande has experience of a major tournament after starting in all but one game at AFCON, scoring against Burkina Faso in the last 16 before Ivory Coast were knocked out by Egypt in the quarter-finals. But this tournament will be s...