Wunderkids: Building football’s most exciting young XI - week six: Kamaldeen Sulemana, winger

It is the stuff of management dreams — a blank cheque to build the most exciting young starting XI in world football.

But that is exactly what new BBC Sounds podcast Wunderkids is offering, in fantasy form at least, over its 11 episodes. The first five episodes are available to listen to now.

The Wunderkids team, in conjunction with BBC Sport, have come up with 11 players — and presenter Steve Crossman will be joined by experts to discuss the latest inclusion, with one new player revealed each week.

So far, Manchester City forward Julian Alvarez, Bayer Leverkusen winger Florian Wirtz, Ajax midfielder Ryan Gravenberch, Santos central defender Kaiky and Barcelona midfielder Gavi have been named in the line-up.

Ghana international Kamaldeen Sulemana began his career in his country with the Right to Dream Academy before joining Danish top-flight side FC Nordsjaelland in February 2020, signing his contract on his 18th birthday.

He made his international debut later that year and during his spell in Denmark was voted the Superliga Player of the Month in April 2021, before joining French side Rennes last summer in a transfer worth more than £16.5m.

Sulemana, a 20-year-old pacy and skilful left-winger, scored after only 14 minutes of his competitive debut for Rennes — a 1-1 draw with Lens — and has been an integral part of their side that are pushing for Champions League qualification and reached the last 16 of the Europa Conference League.

Gary Al-Smith, football journalist

«If you like [Paris St-Germain and France forward] Kylian Mbappe, you like Kamaldeen. If you've not seen Kamaldeen, think of Mbappe but someone who is not as refined.

»He is raw and Rennes was one of the best places for him to go and, like Mbappe got at Monaco, he