Joke is that people tend to use the word talent way too much.
Well, as a word no, but even less in the way how people use it.
You're born with certain genetics, aka talent and that determines whether you will be excellent at something or not. Someone might look like a great "talent", might have a great technique, could be fast etc. but what it doesn't know how to play the game? Football is still a game and if you don't undertand it as a game, what's the actual talent in there? So it's completely based on the things you see and avoiding all the other factors. There's people who are making way more right decisions instead of wrong decisions and there's people who are making those wrong decisions non stop. That's how you play the game. We can talk about great qualities, but then i might agree but i would not talk about "talent "before he's actually something or has played many years on top, because that's a guarantee he had better genetics to play the game than others.