Ryan Giggs has given his verdict over who is better between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, insisting that while he would always back his former team-mate, the Barcelona star is a "once-in-a-lifetime" player.

Widely considered to be two of the best players ever, Messi and Ronaldo have long divided opinion over who is the greatest, with both having scored over 600 goals each and having collected 10 Ballon d'Or awards between them.

And Giggs, who played alongside Ronaldo during the Portugal captain's time at Manchester United, insists that while he will always speak highly of the 34-year-old, Messi has proved to be a "genius" with his displays over the years.

He told DAZN: "Obviously I lean towards Ronaldo a little bit because I played with him and saw him develop as a player. But Messi is a genius, he's a once in a lifetime player. It's as simple as that."


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Lemme summarize this for y’all slow penadogs, there will be plenty Penados, there are players wey dem dey talk say na the next penado be this, Mbappe, Haaland, Bellingham just to mention few, but no player on this planet currently wey we fit talk say na the next Messi be this, not even his kids, that’s the definition of “once-in-a-lifetime player”.

Even without the World Cup Messi has always been clear, we just needed that trophy to shutdown all irrelevant arguments from the other side. Leo’s World Cup doesn’t happen by accident, it was destined and that’s why every impossible things he does looks scripted and y’all penadogs scream say na ojoro, whereas pendu’s career na big time fraud.


Signed: Almiron (Penadogs’ nightmare)

Even Ronaldo and his fans knows that

All his former teammates that are bold enough or truthful are all telling us who the best player of all time is. Tapnaldo will soon stop talking to giggs and others.
Figo picked messi
Rooney picked Messi
Ramos picked messi
Giggs picked messi
Kroos picked messi
Etc

The other ones are just deceiving him and laughing at his back in his desperation to match up with messi. He scored penalty and tapins yesterday again against lowly placed Slovakia.


He stole a world cup goal unsuccessfully in desperation. Very embarrassing. Tapnaldo brought undue pressure upon himself by claiming to be in rivalry with Messi. He could have just enjoyed his game by not sending his sisters, family members, pepe etc to criticize fifa and Messi at the world cup.

Lol....

Another irrelevant thread 😬

Jokerman:
Lol....

Another irrelevant thread 😬

Giggs, Rooney, Ramos and others shared the same dressing room with Ronaldo for atleast 6-7years. You don’t know Ronaldo better than these guys. Therefore, their opinion cannot be labeled “irrelevant”.

You dismissed the opinion of renowned teammates of Ronaldo but swallowed that of Boateng. One who may never be remembered as a Barca player and also don’t forget he spent less than 2years with Messi.

Joker, biko define hypocrisy in your own words.

When Rooney said it, they said he has always been jealous of Ronaldo.

When Figo, a fellow Portuguese and former teammate of Ronaldo said it, they said he played for Barcelona.

Giggs don drop bomb again. I wonder what you guys will say this time. Maybe na because Ronaldo snatch him wife.

Truth be told before figo bow out comes Cristiano, before Ronaldo delima bows out comes Luis Adriano, before Rivaldo bows out comes Ronaldino, before rudvanisterooy bow out comes Wayne Rooney , before ronaldinho bows out comes Lionel messi, before Cristiano ronaldo bows out come Mbappe, before IBRA bows out comes Erling Halaand. Messi u are about to bow out and d world is still waiting