Well match of the day had a wank over his talent last night and so did talksport and skysports soccer saturday. The fact of the matter is joe cole was really skillful at that age, but he did not have the pace vision or the brain kakuta has. I would say joe cole was more skillful but kakuta is better at everything else at 18 except shooting i would say they are around the same at that, joe cole had a brilliant shot in his teen years.