Beverlyjean:


Imagine ...he is even saying that pele played against long careers and plumbers .... this is what ronaldo fans will never do , pull down great players because of ronaldo... it's only messi fans that say he is better than pele and Maradona....imagine... messi hasn't even matched their goal records despite playing more games... maradona and pele scoring teams like italy , england , germany at knock out stages ... messi scoring Serbia, Nigeria ( half of his WC goals) Iran Bosnia without a single knockout goal ...and they u guys are comparing them with Olympics and junior world cup ...u minions are deranged

D4donnn:


Now let me address certain things . You've digressed this argument or debate to irrelevant facets.

1 for a start going by your analogy you're basically saying Jordan Henderson is a better player than Steven Gerrard because he motivated liverpool to win an epl , we both know they have UCL trophy.

2 I never said maradona didn't take them to finals , I simply said messi hasn't taken them to more .

3 you brought the issus of comparing the stats of zidane and Henry which rational person will compare the goals of a midfielder to that of an attacker especially someone as prolific as Henry. And if you have your facts right I think there's an argument that it was zidane who sabotaged Henry's chance to win a world cup irrespective of the circumstances , but your type probably didn't watch the match y'all rely on them say , goal.com or stats . If zidane has led France to win the finals you'd crowned him the hero , but because of his emotions that he couldn't put in check you're using it to blame henry who gave the game his all .

4 the talk about winning trophies , I always ask myself , why is it that most times the winners of certain trophies dont get awarded the mvps. Look at modric , van dijk, griezmann ( laliga best player ) . We all see conspiracies in everything but the simple truth is we mistakenly think we know better than people who spend their entire life in soccer , they breathe eat and live the game . Do you think you know about football more than Wenger mind you zidane came from his country and some other Brazilians who has picked messi as the best player , though that's not thr point .

5 my argument is simple , messi owes no one anything , and he doesn't need to leave Barcelona to prove a smelly point to someone who is not paying his bills. If I tell you to live your house and go to Sambisa for peace keeping your reply would probably " who you " or " who your help " . And you'd be right because you owe me nothing.

6 messi is exceptional , I dont wanna talk about luck or are you gonna say ronaldo inspired Portugal to win the euros from the stands , following his theatrics and antics , are you aware there was a point he was giving conflicting suggestions to the players with the coach and the coach had to shove him away codedly .

7. Maradona is a phenomenon
Pele is amazing
Messi is incredible
Ronaldo is equally great .

Everybody has a unique preference but dont come using some weak , illogical and completely unreasonable reasons to justify why your pick is better than the other .

Initially it was ronaldo then pele now its maradona , pretty soon its gonna be mbappe . If you wanna argue watch all four players, then tell me the goals pele was scoring at random , tell me if he could do it against the likes of them van dijk, Jimenez, Ramos, miranda or those his funny shots if he could score them against , allison and Oblak consistently. That dude was amazing but he was a specialist in exhibition matches against regular Joe's.

Maradona is great , I've seen highlights of him and his skills where mesmerizing . But mu personal preference will always remain messi because he does things you dont expect. Imagine comparing an attacker's playmaking stats to one of the best in the world at present de bruyne . Hmmm make i rest. Before it was laliga was too weak , there's always something y'all use to undermine his success.

D4donnn:


Oga clearly you have a problem with your reasoning faculty if you can't make a point without resorting to names calling I can see the clear evidence of your own dumbness .

You argue without reason , did anybody say the thread was meant for who is greatest or following your smelly analogy now , if pele was to come from, Rwanda and wasn't able to successfully motivate the mediocre cretins playing around him to any national trophy you'd still say he wasn't or can't be called a world beater or one of the greatest , e clear say something they wrong with the way you think .

You can give any justification for your argument , the thread was meant to ask a simply question, why does messi have to leave barcelona , you can't give a satisfactory answer so you spend the rest of your time and energy arguing on baseless things like national honor. So if a player wins only national honors without club honors what then , or a player that's fortunate to be in the right place at the right time , like them varane what then . You're probably gonna bring influence , so who them influenced or motivated France to win the last world cup .

Debating with your type is pointless because you only rile up others to justify the petty and baseless points you're trying to profer . I wish you best of luck sha , anyone you award your lifetime balloon d'or na your cross , since you be your personal fifa

Beverlyjean:


U are still showcasing ur ignorance.... so in ur mind, zidane sabotaged the final against italy so that henry wudnt b a WC winner ... so u dont even know that henry was France top scorer at the 98 WC... besides zidane won the golden ball at that 06 WC ...he was better than henry and wud hv been the first man to win 4 balon dor if not for what happened that day...

Messi definitely dont owe anyone anything but when his fans comes out to claim the greatest , that's when we gonna hv a problem... just imagine if Ronaldo was still in man u and had beaten Shearer's goal record and had won multiple league titles but had not win anything for Portugal and stopped appearing in the CL final after Scholes and Giggs retired but still claims only league titles and top scorer in the EPL but a messi joins liverpool from barca after winning la Liga titles and CL title ...comes to liverpool and set new goal records with an average of one goal per game, win bk to bk to bk CL titles with liverpool, with 6 yr straight top scorer at the CL , wins copa america with Argentina that had previously never won an international trophy... wins EPL titles with liverpool and balon dors with liverpool and then joins Juventus, turns top scorer wins league titles and ronaldo fans will say ronaldo is the greatest and is better that pele and maradona ...wudnt they sound as crazy??

If he wanna spend his whole career at barca there is no problem with that ... xavi , iniesta , totti , maldini , giggs , Scholes, gert muller, Gerrard, di stefano , cruyff all did it but non claims to b the greatest of all time....

Beverlyjean:


...temper temper.... when messi fans face the truth , they become aggressive ... u compared messi with pele saying pele played with weak defenders ... so what makes u think the defenders these days are weak , or did u play during both generations... strikers are even being protected these days compared to back then... hardly will u see players going on long injury holidays like back then... if messi played football during the Maradona / van basten de lima days ...he wud hv retired years ago due to injuries... how dare u go to the Italian league and try to dribble everyone or score lots of goals those days ...

Messis la Liga protection will end once he joins another league and he knows this... flying tackles will await him and if he expects free kicks, he will watch the red wave play on... messi needs highly gifted technical players in a team to thrive ...ronaldo dont need that...

Ur example of pele playing for Malawi is flawed cos messi is not in the category of weah, shevchenko and giggs and had weak national team despite being world class players... messi plays for one of the most reputable teams in football... only Germany, Italy and brazil have bettered Argentinas world cup victories ... Argentina has produced world class players compared to Portugal

D4donnn:


A better name any current argentina midfielder or defender that can start for France, England , Brazil or Argentina.

D4donnn:


Yet without Barca team mates he has taken them to a world cup final , countless copa America finals , even Olympics final . Hmmmm I don't understand your basis for your conclusion but maybe you think say to reach finals na beans .

D4donnn:


Yet without Barca team mates he has taken them to a world cup final , countless copa America finals , even Olympics final . Hmmmm I don't understand your basis for your conclusion but maybe you think say to reach finals na beans .

Rabehdo7:

Who has taken Argentina to the finals?
Argentina carried Messi to the WC final ask MARCOS ROJO. Messi did not score or assist a goal from the round16 to the final.

Beverlyjean:


Messi has been I the national team for 14 yrs... over the years midfield players like di Maria, taglafico of ajax that's wanted by man u and man city, otamendi , lo Celso and de Paul will make the first team of these countries u mentioned

Beverlyjean:


Its certain that messi fans are not intelligent... an intelligent person would rather use zidane as an example...did giroud lead france to WC victory?? U guys are really dumb and dumber oooo... truly, those that support messi think like kids and not logical at alllll... it's not bad to stay in a club all ur career , players do that ...but claiming greatest in history is whr we have a problem... u cant b claiming greatest when ur achievements is limited to one club... compare messi with cruyff and di Stefano or even puskas... cruyff was highest goal scorer for ajax at a time and won 3 CL titles with them and also led Holland to their first final which they lost, di stefano won all types of titles with real Madrid and was highest goal scorer in la Liga history at some point and greatest la Liga player at a time but nothing for argentina... puskas led Hungary to their first WC final , highest goal scorer in the history of Hungarian football and has the second best goals per game ratio after Ronaldo in la Liga... these players dont claim greatest players of all time cos they literally played for one club all their lives( apart from puskas) and won nothing for their national teams ... those considered greatest of all time won for both club and country ... pele, Maradona, CR7 , zidane, ronaldinho , gert muller, Franz beckenbauer , van basten

Beverlyjean:


Its certain that messi fans are not intelligent... an intelligent person would rather use zidane as an example...did giroud lead france to WC victory?? U guys are really dumb and dumber oooo... truly, those that support messi think like kids and not logical at alllll... it's not bad to stay in a club all ur career , players do that ...but claiming greatest in history is whr we have a problem... u cant b claiming greatest when ur achievements is limited to one club... compare messi with cruyff and di Stefano or even puskas... cruyff was highest goal scorer for ajax at a time and won 3 CL titles with them and also led Holland to their first final which they lost, di stefano won all types of titles with real Madrid and was highest goal scorer in la Liga history at some point and greatest la Liga player at a time but nothing for argentina... puskas led Hungary to their first WC final , highest goal scorer in the history of Hungarian football and has the second best goals per game ratio after Ronaldo in la Liga... these players dont claim greatest players of all time cos they literally played for one club all their lives( apart from puskas) and won nothing for their national teams ... those considered greatest of all time won for both club and country ... pele, Maradona, CR7 , zidane, ronaldinho , gert muller, Franz beckenbauer , van basten

D4donnn:


Yet without Barca team mates he has taken them to a world cup final , countless copa America finals , even Olympics final . Hmmmm I don't understand your basis for your conclusion but maybe you think say to reach finals na beans .

D4donnn:
I'll be sincere I'm a very big fan of messi .

Weirdly enough I equally like Ronaldo ( though sometimes , I wish his opponents gets one over him , for reasons I'll address later)

I'm equally a very big fan of unselfish and highly technical players , one of my favorites de bruyne , Mane , iniesta , dybala and the likes .

Now back to the issue ?
Who or why should messi have to prove himself to anybody ?

Now let's logically or analytically analyze certain things .

What's the most difficult competition in football .

I think it's either the word cup or the champions league.
Weirdly messi has excelled in both even bagging golden ball award in both competition, something I dont think more than 5 players may have achieved.

Another annoying thing , must a player come to epl before he can be deemed successful or proven great .

Messi can't perform without iniesta , xavi or neymar's but he keeps scoring goals and setting records for assists independently I'll say.

If Leicester can win the epl , something I don't think can realistically happen in laliga surely anything can happen over there .

Now y'all talk about messi shying away from a challenge , but who realistically leaves a premium place of employment where you're loved , valued and probably having a lot of fun for somewhere lower and with a considerable chance of not being fun , as stated by the likes of Diego Costa.

Now look at some of the biggest import in epl , Forlan , aguero , Costa, Torres, this guys where equally in laliga and they couldn't come near messi . If this guys can excel in epl why can't messi , yeah y'all will argue that the team is maybe built around him and their way of play is most suited to messi . But does Argentina play tiki taka , yet messi has taken them to more finals than any other player has done for his country .

Finally y'all tend to use Ronaldo's exploits as the basis for your comparisons . But ronaldon left , sporting for man utd , man utd to real Madrid, real Madrid to Juventus.
All this teams I listed where either the best or where the second best in their division at his time of arrival .
Now there's speculation about PSG's, I marvel at his beautiful choice of challenges. According to zlatan if ronaldo wants a challenge he should have opted for anything other than the strongest team in the league.

I'm not trying to convince anyone that messi is the best , or he will thrive in any league , even though he has one if not the best scoring stats against the top teams in epl .

All I simply wanna say is messi probably doesn't care about what you think and even if he does wouldn't risk destabilizing his family who are comfortably rooted , in Barcelona for one nonsensical and completely illogical challenge.

In conclusion ogbeni and those clamoring he should come and prove himself , get a life , the dude doesn't know you exist and he absolutely owes you nothing , if you want a challenge go and join eyimba or any local league and prove to us you can do something worthwhile with your time .

The last two players to underestimate messi

Vincent kompany " stoke away can be tougher than the nou camp" , it ended as a home and away victory for Barcelona

Manuel neuer " I'll show messi who is boss " boateng ended up dancing skelewu to neuer buffoonery.

Y'all should discard this dirty spirit of entitlement, if I was messi I'll stay in Barcelona and only leave if I have a better offering in a more comfortable surrounding .

Being loyal shouldn't be a crime , I haven't seen detractors come for totti or Gerrard.

Hmmmm I'm tired , you dont have to change your mind , but simply do a self reflection and those people calling him a coward and urging for new challenge . Y'all should go and flaunt your bravery to Sars operatives or travel down to Rwanda or south Sudan and start a new challenge , until then y'all are scared chickens and clowns .

obonujoker:
You can not win only at one club, and call yourself greatest of all time

D4donnn:


I'm done with this argument , like I asked y'all likened the Argentine squad to world beaters my simple question is how many of their midfielders would start for Germany, France, England, Brazil , Belgium etc.

Omoluabi55:



Pele play for only one club and is said to be the greatest