Seagull on the wing
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Top call especially, with Garrincha on the wing
Who would you choose?
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Messi is obviously GREAT, but is he THAT great?
I'm yet to really see him turn it on in an International tournament (and of course, I fully appreciate time is in his hands), but unless his International team improves, I'm not sure he will.
Yes, he scores a SHIT load of goals, and gets a SHIT load of assists, but, if you took a Wayne Rooney, or a Fernando Torres, and put them in that Barcelona team, in that Spanish league, would they struggle to get near the amount he does? I'm not sure they would.
Look at Ronaldo, he has scored 55 goals, in 59 games in TWO seasons in Spain.
Messi has scored 119 goals, in 175 games, in SEVEN seasons.
Ronaldo has almost half of Messi's goals in almost a third of the time.
I am in the camp of Messi is a great player, playing for (possibly) the best team ever, in a pretty poor league.
If he moved to Manchester United, Chelsea, or Arsenal at the end of the season, I think it would be a number of years until he was crowned the Worlds best player again.
Having said all that, he does have PLENTY of time ahead of him.
Messi or Maradona? I'll sleep on it
I'm yet to really see him turn it on in an International tournament (and of course, I fully appreciate time is in his hands), but unless his International team improves, I'm not sure he will.
Yes, he scores a SHIT load of goals, and gets a SHIT load of assists, but, if you took a Wayne Rooney, or a Fernando Torres, and put them in that Barcelona team, in that Spanish league, would they struggle to get near the amount he does? I'm not sure they would.
Look at Ronaldo, he has scored 55 goals, in 59 games in TWO seasons in Spain.
Messi has scored 119 goals, in 175 games, in SEVEN seasons.
Ronaldo has almost half of Messi's goals in almost a third of the time.
I am in the camp of Messi is a great player, playing for (possibly) the best team ever, in a pretty poor league.
If he moved to Manchester United, Chelsea, or Arsenal at the end of the season, I think it would be a number of years until he was crowned the Worlds best player again.
Having said all that, he does have PLENTY of time ahead of him.
Messi or Maradona? I'll sleep on it
BensGrandad
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I would go for Messi without a doubt as I think that Georgie Best was better than Maradona not sure between Messi and Best.
sir albion
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Pele was awsome in his day but nothing that special to be honest,maradona on the other hand had bloody everything and one day messi could be the next maradona
No player has ever come near maradona in recent times,maradona was playing with skills in the 80's that clearly shouldn't have been seen til recent years.Bloody genius
supaseagull
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Messi has never yet proven himself in a major European or World Cup final and therefore cannot be compared to the greats like Maradona, Pele or even Van Basten.
Messi truly is a naturally gifted talent one of the best footballers in the hame today but has to go some way to be compared to those I've mentioned.
I remember everyone was saying the same about Ronaldinho(who I never rated as much as the media did) and yet he bottled the big games. It remains to be seen whether Messi will be as disappointing.
Messi truly is a naturally gifted talent one of the best footballers in the hame today but has to go some way to be compared to those I've mentioned.
I remember everyone was saying the same about Ronaldinho(who I never rated as much as the media did) and yet he bottled the big games. It remains to be seen whether Messi will be as disappointing.
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Nah I always thought he was a bit limp in comparison to Maradona.
JonathanLivingstonSeagull
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more pressingly, who on earth sets a compilation to that music? that said i did put on a dress and watch it with tears in my eyes. it was magic.
Beach Hut
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In my lifetime I have never seen a more gifted player than Maradona, he was brilliant beyond belief.
