LordAdam16:


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My point was that he didn't go to 5 international cup finals and not win 1. But I'm sure you missed that.

Like Messi, Cryuff went to the World Cup Final and was named Player of the Tournament. He transformed a Dutch side from obscurity to a powerhouse. And he invented Total Football which Barcelona and Ajax have used for the past 40+ years, and which gifted Barcelona and Messi their 2009-2012 dominance--tiki-taka. He even has a skill named after him--the Cryuff turn. The only GOAT other than Zidane to be a legend both as a player and as a coach.

So why should Cryuff not be above Messi? What has Messi invented?

-Lord

ClumsyFlimsy:
imagine this boastful idiot


Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo believes "no one will be compared" to him because there are not many who can rival his "talent" or "dedication".

http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/cristiano-ronaldo-compared-real-madrid-lionel-messi/1pl0nhxugppo1i9gxnzcatz6a

philfearon:

You have just been busy displaying your full stupidity and fòòlishness, making useless and baseless argument thinking you are making a logical case.
You are the type of cúnts who go to viewing centres to watch the back of TV while others watch the real game.
I mean, Ronaldo is still trying to catch up with Messi's achievements before Messi even clocked 29yrs and you are here spewing trash.
You have just been busy going round in circles, repeating the same trash over and over again.
I'm sure you are among the idïots that say Messi should go and prove himself in the mediocre EPL.
Lord of Touts!!!
As for those who keep replying this idïots, you are all worse than fòòls. Someone will come to his club thread to read reasonable comments or get informed news only to see about 20 pages filled with absolute garbage and cräp.
May a sun heated thunder produced under the harsh weather of Kebbi State destroy all of you!!!
Rubbish!!!

LordAdam16:


Faux intelligence! It's cute!

Except that there's no objective top 3 GOAT list that everyone agrees to. In a class, everyone knows the top 3 as they'd have objective results due to the fact that they do the same subjects, go to the same lectures, answer the exact same questions in the same exams, and have their respective scores compared by the same teacher who is the only authority.

Conflating an objective school report with a subjective GOAT list ranking proves how shallow you are!

So no one would say R9 isn't greater than Pele? What could Pele do that R9 couldn't? R9 won 2 world cups. He could have won 3 if he didn't have a convulsive fit before the '98 final. He is the only GOAT to have a 3 year catastrophic knee injury, come back, break the transfer record to Real Madrid, then won a Ballon D'Or and the World Cup scoring 2 goals in the final and winning the Golden Boot. No one would ever be able to do that. This guy won two FIFA World Player of the Year awards before he was 22.

LM10 dribbles mostly using feints. CR7 dribbles mostly using skills. R9 dribbles using both.

Watch this clip and tell me you've ever seen anyone do what he did --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaBvBjOJ5SI

And you think he can't replace anyone on the GOAT list in any position.

There's a reason why he isn't called a magician, a genius, or something else. He's called O Fenômeno. The Phenomenon. He cannot be logically explained.

“I love to score goals after passing all the defenders as well as the keeper. This is not my speciality, but my habit.” – Ronaldo

And then you say CR7 can't displace Messi? Is that a joke or what? Any GOAT can displace any GOAT in any list. That's why everyone can't agree to anybody's list. And that's why it's disrespectful to talk about a TOP 3, as tho' there are 3 legends that others can't displace. And even more disrespectful to say legends like CR7, Cryuff, and R9 can't displace Messi in any list. That just shows you're irredeemably ignorant. You think football started in 2010 and ended in 2012?

Messi is the only GOAT to go to 5 international cup finals and not win one. Not even a tap in. How do you go to 5 finals with roughly the same players and you can't even inspire them to one trophy? And you want to put him before Pele, Maradona, CR7, Cryuff, R9. What insolence!

-Lord

haymekus:
1 M. ter StegenG
3 Piqué
4 I. Rakitić
10 L. Messi
11 O. Dembélé
14 Philippe Coutinho
15 Paulinho
17 Paco Alcácer
18 Jordi Alba
20 Sergi Roberto
23 S. Umtiti

LordAdam16:


Another triggered cule.

When you know I have facts, stats, and objective evidence to support my opinion and you can't wish them away; you switch to dishing out insults.

Seriously, all the reasonable cules (you excluded) have said we should let this slide. It's people like you that just rush in and keep it going. Thinking if you continue making more senseless statements, then maybe it would make sense at some point.

Na because of GOAT list debate nai make you say make "sun heated thunder produced under the harsh weather of Kebbi State destroy all of you!!!" Who do you this kyn tin this hot afternoon? We're not the source of your problems!

Tell your cules and cule wannabes to stop their baseless tirade and all this will end or at least be reduced to the normal Barca/Madrid banter. Because that's what I've been saying for days now and everyday one new person would make the mistake of quoting me.

-Lord

philfearon:

You have made a huge sense. Now run along!!!

phaamsaam:

He has used both variations in games, 433 attacking, 442 without the ball

barackodam:
After that save, see anti Barça fans shouting.


"no be Courtois"




See Courtois life

Chelseafan1:
But which kind human being be this Messi sef.

When will this guy hang boot.

Has the footballing world ever seen a player this spectacular

Neymar1095:
Messi another tap in as per usual

barackodam:



Let your shadow chasing MCM try score one from his bench in Rio or wherever

barackodam:



Let your shadow chasing MCM try score one from his bench in Rio or wherever

Neymar1095:
Messi another tap in as per usual

10Dove:
Enjoy him while it last. My instinct tells me its less than 3.5 yrs