6 players who can be successors to Cristiano Ronaldo according to Ronaldo himself!

#5 Ousmane Dembele

In January 2016, Ousmane Dembele had played a handful of games for Ligue 1 strugglers Rennes and people were starting to take notice of him. Fast forward to 2017 and Dembele is now one of the hottest young prospects in world football having just completed a blockbuster move to Barcelona.

Still only 20, the Frenchman has been signed as a long-term replacement to Neymar and Barcelona are confident that the former Borussia Dortmund man can live upto their expectations.

Quick, skilled and a penchant for creating something out of nothing, the two-footed Frenchman will be under a lot of pressure at Camp Nou. However, these are the situations where the truly world class players thrive in and Ronaldo believes that Dembele will go on to become one of the best players of the future generation.

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