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Daejoyoung:
Ever since the exit of Xavi and Iniesta, Messi has been playing both the number 10 and false 9 position, and still getting more than 25 goals per season on average. Ronaldo have been mostly about scoring goals only so far. I don't think Ronaldo would have survived long in a post 2018 Barcelona team.

ThierryJay:
For CR7 fans masturbating over Messi's potential exit.

You can continue braying endlessly for as long as you want, but note that Lionel Messi has absolutely NOTHING to prove to you or anyone again whether he leaves or stays. He has won everything there is to win in club football multiple times while being the chief protagonist in almost all of those successes.

Get this, as far back as 2011 after the champions league final against Man Utd, he was already widely touted as the Greatest Player of All Time by the football media and journalists. Your CR7 did not even come into the equation until just a few years ago. Everything he has achieved subsequently, only serves to consolidate his initial successes and standing as the GOAT.

Messi might have lost a game 8-2, but CR7 did not even smell the opportunity to lose 8-2 just like Oxlade Chamberlain. How the lack of such opportunity suddenly makes him better than the one who excelled where he failed, beggars belief and sound reasoning.

You guys simply do not know what you want. Messi stays, he gets criticized, He leaves, it's a problem for you guys.

6 will always be greater than 5.

eni4real:
All that for a round of 16 elimination in the hand of Lyon??

C'mon stop the Overhype!!!

Quagliarela and Immobile are shaking their heads right now..

IgweBUIKE1:
they do not but not until they hear they argument on football then you know better...you think football is all about goal scoring??

Asour:
Ronaldo is a fantastic player but please tone down the narrative.

Technically madrid won the Supercopa de espana and so where not trophiless in 2008/2009.

Also the same madrid won the Laliga twice in the last 3 years and was going to welcome Kaka (the world's best 2 years earlier) in the same window.

You make it look like he came to a dying team.
From 2009 it took 4 years to land the first UCL title.

Football is a team game. You are painting heavily biased pictures with this narrative of "he came to save a dead madrid".

For instance, Isn't it funny that Robinho was at madrid for basically 3 seasons but then won the same number of Laliga titles as Ronaldo's 9 year stint there?

You conveniently ignored that madrid won the league (Laliga) 2 x consecutively before he came. And in 2009 2 of the previous year's balond'or winners would play in Madrid.

By the way Messi/Barca performed poorly this season so you don't think I think anything else.

Topsic70:
Who is d tribal bigot between you and me?

Three ppl were accused of kidnapping: adetokunbo, chidozie and Linus.
You specifically made d story all about Adetokunbo and conveniently left out the other two. And you have d ballz to call me 'tribal bigot'?

Is dt how you practice your own 'upper-iweka/ochanja' journalism?
Why are u lots fond of pulling others down while protecting yours from d same offence?
History is replete with this: in the 1966 coup, nzeogwu and his fellow 'ipobs', in d guise of cleaning d augean stable, killed the political and military leaders of the north, west and Midwest whilst the protecting the leaders of d east from harm.

And you have just repeated d same thing (albeit with d pen as against nzeogwu's gun) here: you conveniently broadcast Adetokunbo as d kidnapper whilst you kept quiet of the involvement of Chinedu and linus in d same crime. These are some of the reasons why Nigerians don't trust ur sense of judgement in cases like this without u displaying tribal sentiments.

Will u lots ever change?

Pimpmaride:
Whatsup failurenaldo

zainkay:
why I can never be a Ronaldo fan boy, they are the most delusional set you can ever encounter, according to these lots Ronaldo is better because he played in three leagues while Messi is afraid to leave his comfort zone, now rumor has it Messi is planning to leave Barcelona, and these lots are back again saying Messi is afraid to stay in Barcelona and sink further with them..how they maintain this level of ignorance and delusions for years baffles me..There are still few reasonable ones though..

IronGalaxy:
I think Messi realises that he doesn't have the same calibre of players such as Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Alves etc and that he's now essentially playing with lesser talented players

IgweBUIKE1:
pls go back to zee world

Goke7:
messi is too emotional, tomorrow he will change his mind again. He did same with the Argentine team.

A very bad loser

Saltzman00:
i can swear with my life as a human that you dont knoe what you're talking about...what did barcelona end up with that season ? NOTHING not even second on laliga ucl semi final copa semifinals. ..which coach on earth would let go of players like deco Ronaldinho eto thiago motta yaya toure who became a beast in city and even ibrahimovic. ..for players likr pedro messi iniesta who wasnt even a starter xavi who hardly plays then too and busquet...you even said beaten the team with the most expensive and world star players wasnt a big deal!!!...Rijkaard gave messi confidence? How many matches did messi play under him...compared to pep that built his team and hope around messi...who ever told you messi is a striker lol would agree with me that players like arjen robben Ronaldinho rivaldo joe cole myrez sterlin sancho william benardo silva quarema nani douglas costa frank ribery eden hazard etc are al strikers right after all they all play in the front three of the attack ..funny people would say anything to discredit messi ...lol

Saltzman00:
i wasnt referring to tiki taka but the introduction of false 9 brought in by gurdiola in his first ever clasico in charge or the senior team ....go on youtub the documentries are there for u to watch theres really no need to argue about it ...how can immobile be bettet than messi cos he scored how many goals lol funny u....so lampard was a better player than zidane because he scored more goals ?...anyways sorry i referred to you as a bro lol ps:rijkaard never played a false 9 with bacerlona ..Ronaldinho who is a natural attacking midfielder was converted to a winger eto played as a central foward that he his and guilly played on the right wing...there wasnt a false 9 ....pep had a secret training with his front 3 a day to el classico and told them his intentions eto and henry were to run on the flanks while messi drags defenders to himself from the right wing were he starts and then play eto or henry in ...the final score was 6-2 i think...madrid never saw that coming ....

anigbajumo:
Shut up!!

Your analysis is prejudice bro, Pep knws la media more than anybody then therefore it was easy for him to send the old cargo away and pick players from la mesia and build confident in them even he never hesitate to bring Sergio busquest and recall pique together with Messi , xavi and iniesta that has been in the team b4 so it was easy for him coz he coached them at Barca B and knws them well....Pep unilaterally played Messi in Ibrahimovic role that's why fight broke up between him and Ibrahimovic, till today Ibrahimovic still loves and worship Messi coz he believes pep causes his downfall not Messi and moreover Ibrahimovic Messi and Henry played for a season ND Messi never played in his position during his time in Barca, pls get ur fact right b4 u blame Messi. Messi only played in his position after he left Barca..Go and read Ibrahimovic response to pep after he left Barca,why blaming Messi??

Most of u guys are saying Barca should sell Messi, imagine someone that involved in 40 goals last season despite his age with declining over aged Barca?? Go and check ronaldinho performance in 2007 b4 he left Barca and see if he was at his top of his game like 2004_2006, most of guys just come here to write trash...

Messi is natural talent and he still has at least 3yrs to carry Barca as far as an concerned.

Saltzman00:
no offense bro but your analysis is shiiiitt!!!...they had a particular style of play under the head coach gurdiola which was messi playing as a fasle 9...henry and eto as strikers played to that style but ibrahimovic wouldn't cos it would mean him scoring lesser goals ....pedro was soled cos of neymar not messi ...coutinho was being played out of his position was messi's fault huh? Or did he ask dem to buy grizeman who only gets to click in a two man attack? Or dembele who was bought to replace neymar at the left hand side but still played secondary school football and gets himself injured every now and then...who told you neymar wasnt a star player in the barcelona team before he left...ask urself if neymar was in madrid would he out shine ronaldo who madrid also sacrificed strikers (benzima and higuain for)...making dem play out of position to make ronaldo the point man for more goals...since the year messi clocked 30 take away is performance and see if barcelona as a team would have made top 5in all of laliga seasons ...a 32 year old player who is still currently the best player in the world is who you all critizies over a team he's been single handedly dragging along all this years ...so annoying! !!

lagusboyyy:
In my own opinion,messi is the number one factor holding back barcelona.

For crying out loud,this guy is above 30,naturally,the law of diminishing returns is already happening. I believe this team should let go of old legs and rebuild.

Its not even the matter of sacking the coaches or admin staffs,much power is given to lionel messi,i see this ish happening again.

johnkey:
She won't tell us he was her sugar daddy who has spent loads of money and feel entitled to the pussy so took the wrong way to get it. They will never put that in the story, hoes everywhere! Trust these naija bitches at your own peril.

VULCAN:
You are a Ronaldo fan. Obvious from your choice of words. Nothing wrong with that but stop being disingenuous.

Nothing you droned on about on has any relevance to the ability of Messi to play football. He isn't called the GOAT because he made you happy by taking life decisions that you claim he should make.

He is renowned because of what he has done on the pitch over the years.

And to show how deceptive you are you are attacking him for wanting to leave while you Ronaldo fans have always criticised him for staying put in Barca all his life.

Are you guys bipolar?

Humanoid01:
I'd rather have myself an assist king, a goal scorer and a magician on the ball (who has never won a world's best award) on my team than someone with multiple awards who's more concerned about accumulating goals for himself. Damn the stats, Messi is a far better player than Ronaldo. If you can't accept that, run along and keep suckling on your thumb.

PS: I'm no Barca or "Messi" fan. I'm just someone who enjoys good football and Messi is one of the few players who give me that pleasure.

Humanoid01:
This is just the same problem I have with people who claim that Ronaldo is better than Messi.

paulolee:
lolz...the media keeps bringing up this news whenever they is problem in barca..
the same messi dt want to leave barca after dt roma debacle and nothing happened..
the same messi that was very angry and reported to submit a transfer request to join pep after dt Liverpool nightmare bt still nothing happened..
now its bayern and they are still reporting dt he wants to leave when we all know that its nearly impossible for barca to lose him..
messi have done soo much for barca and still the highest paid player in Europe, bt at that age i think messi and barca needs each other the more..
its easier for messi to win the ucl in barca and also a good individual season in barca can make him win the ballon d or easily even without winning the ucl....