I challenge everyone to compare him to players without using other black players. Vieira and Toure are lazy, someone tell me why he's Bastien Schweinsteiger.
Vieira & Toure are right up there as two of the best central midfielders in the premier league era. I'm not a huge fan of jumping on the hype train & bigging players up too early but if some on here see attributes of Onana's game that in it's early form is somewhat comparable to either of thiers then they are free to do so.
The insinuation of it being a purely lazy black comparison does not sit well with me at all.
If you made a list of say the 10-15 best central midfielders to grace the premier league i would imagine at least a third of that list happens to be black.
In fact lets throw so names out there.
Patrick Vieira, Yaya Toure, Michael Essien, Claude Makelele, Ngolo Kante etc. Mix that list with the likes of Keane, Fabregas, Gerrard, Lampard, Silva, De Bruyne, Carrick, Milner etc & stylistically i can see why some on here would make an early, raw comparison to Toure or Vieira instead of some of the others. He doesn't having a playing style like most of the other players i listed currently.
Could he in the future? Sure, but right now his style is more akin to Toure & Vieira hence the comparisons some have made.
I shouldn't even need to make this post. We're better than this.