FEW players have made as big an impact, in as little time, as Turkiye and Real Madrid’s Arda Guler, with the 19-year-old’s recent performances for club and country propelling him towards a superstardom for which he has long been prepared.
Hailed as the ‘‘Turkish Messi’’ while emerging as a precocious teenager at Fenerbahce in his native country, Guler made a sensational goalscoring run late in the 2023-24 La Liga season with Real – who he joined in a US$21.5mil (RM101.45mil) deal last summer.
