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Blabbermouth:
Haaaaaaaa...
she couldn't answer my question,, Euro is the same as world cup!!!
Olodo

What the difference between European cup and world cup... Only one team outside Europe have appeared in the final in the past 17 yrs... The last WC had an all European team semi final so as the 2010 and 2006 WC... No south American team or African team or north American team or Asian team can match the top European teams... Invite them to the euros and non will pass quarter finals

Blabbermouth:
coming from you that doesn't know pirlo was a deep-lying playmaker (playmaker that operates deep in his own half) which is exactly what messi had been doing in the past 2-3 matches..
You, Cr7lomo and Beverlyjean should just answer me this question
'"will you admit messi is greater than Ronaldo if he lifts this copa America "
"if you won't, what is your honest reason??"
hahaha... u have been dodging , u know there is no way u wouldn't contradict yourself when framing reasons for your denial

How logical can u b comparing Copa with the Euros... The world cup and the Euros are the same level now ,cos Europe controls football now...all other continents are dead.. Copa is even the worst of them all... AFCON is even tougher than that dead Copa... They don't even play qualifiers ... They just assemble and look for others from other continents to complete them... Very disorganized tournament... What sort of foolish tournament do they play twice in 2yrs... 2015and 2016, 2019&2020... It's like comparing champions League with Copa libertadores ... Guy u hv nothing credible to say

Blabbermouth:
35 is 4 more than 31.
Eni4real cited a 2017 case where Ronaldo won MoTM without scoring. haha haha
so u want to run back to blatter's saga. History will recall he had a Golden ball stop hiding under blatter.
I can see u are reluctant to admit that messi becomes greater than Ronaldo without question if/when he lays his hand on the Copa.
Because greatness is what u've spearheadedly achieved. if messi has 34 trophies (excluding individual which he has far more than Ronaldo) and Ronaldo has only 31 trophies, messi is clearly greater.
But those of u that aren't Messians believe it was just in a single team. So if he lays his hands on this trophy. ur argument becomes invalid. (You and Jokerman dodged my question bcus we all knew wat I was driving at).
Messi has been playing like pirlo this copa recently, he is mostly found in his own half of the field. Because this is what it required to boost Argentina's performance. So never use any fucking goal or assist to criticize.
Pray he doesn't lay dose legendary hands on that Copa because if he does ,, It is then clear for sure that he is greater than Ronaldo

Always making excuses... It's now story of 35 trophies... If ud use that to judge, then Dani alves is the greatest.. players have won motm without scoring in a game or assisting... But they imposed themselves in those games.... Ur Messi dint impose nada ... Let that clown mention the game that Ronaldo won motm without imposing himself in that game...

Now it's Messi playing like pirlo and that's the reason y he has not been scoring .. jokerman come and hear ooo... But at least pirlo was assisting with goals

Blabbermouth:
35 is 4 more than 31.
1 golden ball from world cup
2015 continental tournament best player.
Ronaldo got none of these
So what is there to compare??

Just like they dashed him motm against Qatar... The only world cup golden ball winner that dint make the same world cup team of the tournament... Part of Blatter's yawo that led to his exit

Blabbermouth:
Beverlyjean I asked u a simple QST. I want your honest reply
Will u accept that messi is greater than Ronaldo if he lifts this Copa America??

How will he b greater... Ronaldo has already won two national tournaments... Messi hasn't won jack... As of today, Ronaldo is greater, if Messi wins, then we can start to compare

KanuSE:
Remember Johnson Suleiman...?

How many people put mouth for that one ...besides, otobos case wasn't a case of rape... It was soliciting for sex... But for this guy, women are coming out to speak... Like he's a serial abuser

Flows001:
If Messi scores and Argentina doesn't qualify,una go open smelly mouth to criticize,if he doesn't score but Argentina still qualifies,una go stil open smelly mouth criticize... Hating does more harm than good to ur health

But u guys call him goat... Ronaldo does it... Ronaldo scored and still qualifies

Even the presidential election dint take up this sort of space... everyone has gotten involved... even Satan put mouth for the matter... This pastor will never recover from this... This is what u get when u are selfish and try to hurt others to satisfy urself... I think he took advantage of her ,and these days it's classified as rape

Blabbermouth:
will u admit that messi is greater and better than Ronaldo when Argentina lift this 2019 copa America

He can't even win it cos he ain't Ronaldo.... Brazil na their bus stop... Lol... Don't forget Chile ( their serial whippers) is heading to the final again...

eni4real:
Ronaldo is not a South American, he is not relevant in Copa America discussion

Oh ...but he was relevant in the beginning of Copa... only for ur Messi to disappoint... Now Ronaldo discussion ain't relevant

Blabbermouth:
U go use panadol tire.. just wait for Brazil match and d finals. .
The year 2015 u guys had no hold on messi's greatness ur argument were always baseless .. Tables are still turning .2019 would end it all (Cus no more point for u guys)

I laff at u... So because they got to the semi final, Argentina is now excellent... This time , they face a contender... Qatar and Venezuela ain't contenders... Colombia were contenders and Brazil are contenders

Blabbermouth:
Chillax.. Remaining 2 more games

Or we should chillax?? Did u guys chillax for Ronaldo, despite his efforts

eni4real:
What Eder did is highly commendable!!!

He will go down in history as a player that score the most important goal in the history of Portugal national team against the toughest opponent they' ve ever faced..
Especially when the best player in the team was injured...

Eder is a Portugal Legend already!!! Even if he never represents the national team again..

U c the reason y people on this forum say u are biased and sentimental.. now aguero and martinez are the ones carrying Argentina.. ur Messi has failed to live up to expectation... At least , even if Ronaldo dint score in those finals, he led them there... But u guys keep on discrediting him... Now ur Messi is the one that they are carrying to the final

greggng:
Oh my God ...death row is not a good place to be in usa. You are isolated in a very small cell. Waiting for execution via lethal injection. It might take 10 to 15 years but you must face the executioner. You will be given your last meal ...you can have a shower before you are injected. But if you are afraid of being buried alive, you can opt for electric chair. I have applied for the job of executioner but I have been unlucky...I hope one day I will be executing criminals. I feel no sorry for the first person I will execute...I will experiment with him cos I don't want quick death for him....gradually shit will be coming out of him nyash till he dies painfully. I will ensure he gets the best of inhuman treatment. Pls stay away from crime it doesn't pay....I won't mercy you

What of if the person that u wanna execute is innocent of the crime

Whr are the "Messi is the only one performing in Argentina" fans...

This coza man don enter am ooo... For those that don't believe in God... This is it, God works at his time... His past sins have finally caught up with him.. he tot he had escaped his past ,but the chicken has come home to roost

Tabithatim:
The spectacle of events at the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Uyo, which came to a head yesterday as Senator Godswill Akpabio took the witness box to give evidence to support his claim of having been robbed of victory by Senator Chris Ekpenyong has triggered mixed emotions and a deep sense of sadness in me for many reasons.

I personally led honest effort (in collaboration with hundreds of other young people in our LGA) to coral His Excellency, Senator Akpabio into the APC. The campaign to lure him was necessitated by the larger interest of our people, who are a minority tribe in Akwa Ibom and Nigeria, and whose interest would have been better served by the intellect and charisma of the Senator in the ruling majority party. His wealth of experience I reckoned, was a wasted asset in the 4 years that he remained in the opposition bench. This feeling was more compelling because I knew that President Buhari, who I support with all my life, would win the 2019 general elections, head or tail. I also knew that the APC would take majority in the National Assembly, head or tail.

In pursuit of that dream, I published articles in several blogs and platforms, urging him to “move” to APC so that our people can reap the full benefit of his presence in the Senate. When he finally heeded the call, I contributed to hiring a band, organizing boys and staging a big show in Ikot Ekpene to welcome him. The expectation was that our “final obongowo” would indeed become a unifying factor, bring all sides together, show compassion, leverage on the structures on the ground and push for the best deal for everyone.

What did he do after? He went on-board the APC platform which he desecrated and traumatized during his days as governor of Akwa Ibom, to further stoke the fire. He shoved everyone aside using the crudest of tactics; arrested, manacled and humiliated me alongside my elder brother – Samuel Ikpa (himself a staunch dyed-in-the-wool Buharist) , tried within the limits of his human capacity to break our spirits, and truncated my brother’s ambition to vie for the House of Assembly seat with bestial impunity. He handpicked candidates from his coterie of hangers-on for the different electoral contests and thoroughly upended the seams of democracy. He built a make-believe aura of invincibility around himself and refused to exploit the huge advantage that the APC had before he joined. Rather than unifying the platform, he became a polarizing agent; destabilizing a movement that was solid like a rock. He jettisoned elementary methods of soliciting for votes through campaigns, canvassing and persuasion and instead, relied on the ensemble of urchins and touts for the dirty job of snatching ballot materials, abducting polling officials and manipulating the electoral process to force victory by crooked means. The rest is history.

On that dreadful night, I told our dear senator to do a little self introspection about his inner circle. I told him that he was unable to create the right kind of friends that would step into his shoes like Tinubu has done and help him expand his sphere of influence. I told him that good leaders who desire to be like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu do not fight small fights. No! They do not see those who speak the truth as enemies. Good leaders like Tinubu identify talents around them to support, groom and project. Good leaders think more about their community and their hereafter, than they think about themselves. Good leaders keep an eye on the judgement of history than the praises of sycophants, whose stock in trade is to clap and dance for the crumbs. Good leaders listen to criticisms, learn from everyone and do justice to their consciences. According to Michelle Obama, “people who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together. People who are truly leaders show the way” .

I told him that most of the people who surround him tell him lies, destroy other people before him and mislead him into believing that some of us who truly wish him to succeed, do not mean well for him. Those people are the same set that made him take the crude action that he took against my brother. They are the same set that organized the fatal hijacking of electoral materials at Okon, Ekpenyong 1, Odoro Ikot, Ukana and Ikpe Annang that has become his Achilles Hills , and has given Chris Ekpenyong easy passage into the Senate. They are the ones that brought down our own dear Senator, from the pinnacle of a sterling political career in Abuja, into the spectacle of a dingy dock of a courtroom in a tiny corner of Uyo where he had to be “led in evidence” by small lawyers, unfit to untie the lace of his shoes. On a good day.

As the lawyer was “putting it to” our former senator yesterday, I could feel the embarrassment; the sheer reality of subjecting our OGA’s tender feet to the furnace of hot unusual legal scrutiny. I could perceive the sense of powerlessness; the surrender that his fall from grace represents. It is sad that our own senator had to struggle to prove that he voted for himself. Or that he scored 61,000 votes. Or 65,000 votes. Or any number of votes in-between. It was a spectacle to see him argue with facts on paper, or feign victim to INEC’s Mike Igini when indeed, his most ardent supporters were denied the right to vote by his own agents. It is tragic that the cold hands of karma, has visited a respectable loquacious senator, in the unkindest of ways, and served him a full dose of the bitter medicine that he alone had the monopoly of serving to others, all these years.

Alas, the words of Jim Rohn are true about leadership: “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.” Our senator possesses little of these attributes, hence his struggles with the truth.

If only he knows.

** Celestine Mel is a chartered banker and active citizen. He writes from Abuja, FCT.

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So u are among those that led him to disaster

eni4real:
Messi is not a native of Spain. He is a South American, taken from Newells old boy at age 13. And joined Barcelona Academy where he graduated to the 1st team...
He can't be mistaken for a Catalina because he grow up there but despite his citizenship, he always make it clear that he want to play for Argentina and not Spain even when he was invited to represent Spain...

Pele and Neymar are Brazilian geniuses playing in a Brazilian club all their lives.

No other club affiliation, no travel, no experience in a foreign land... That is why I compared Pele and Neymar (if he had stayed in Brazil in all his career) of Santos

They get VIP treatments there!!!
Just watch Neymar highlights when he was in Brazil. He was untouchable... Neymar would be a dynasty if he continued to play there throughout his career. His countrymen will not hurt him, you know...
"We need Neymar for the World cup" Lolz!!!

Pele had a VIP career in that Brazilian League. A national treasure.

"We hereby declare him a National treasure, he should not make a move to Europe. We want to continue enjoy him.... " Lolz

Defenders be warned!!!

Europe don't care.. They will break your leg especially if you are very skillful.
This is not Brazil. You are a professional here, not a prince/national treasure!!!

U are still repeating trash... What is the difference between Pele playing for one club and Messi doing the same?? Is Messi not a league treasure in Spain?? Tackle Messi and get a red card... Messi also has VIP treatment in Spain and that's y he doesn't wanna leave

Soapy dance.. was that what they used on him in prison??

England won fair and square.... The var was on point... Africa known for chasing shadows... Will always blame others but themselves... Some even blame slave trade as the reason y they do Yahoo....smh

theDEVILisHERE:
"60's" ?@@=??

Maradonnas expensive move to Barcelona was the transfer that started it
Before then South American players don't see Europe as a destination
The economic downfall of South American countries contributed to this

They had the best players and they played home
Leagues with the best set of players would always be the league

European Cup aka champions league was not even known or recognized by people back then
South American league was the most followed and that's cause they had all the stars
Do u know how many people around the world became Boca juniors fans cause of Maradonna?
Even till early 2000's TV stations around the world still broadcasted their matches

Man U? lol
English league and teams were not really know or taken seriously till late 90's

European club football started gaining world wide popularity more in the 80's and that's cause Italy investing serious cash in club football , Serie A became a standard, the best

Before 80's only South American clubs had real worldwide fan base
Don't let modern day Satalite TV deceive you
For most people it was worldcup or they follow their favourite superstars (Maradonna, zico, societies etc) in their various clubs
Europe's individual talents were no match with exception of few (platini, Rumaniga, Paulo Rossi etc)

Do you know elclassico of back then was Boca juniors 's River plates??

Back then, Messi would have been just like a Di Stefano

I have been mentioning this for a long time now... That in Argentina, Messi and Di stephano are on the same level... Great players that won so much for their European clubs but did little or nothing for country... And some fools even compare him with maradona .. some delusional fans even say he is better than maradona... I keep on saying that the Argentine fans don't even regard him amongst their top 5 greatest.... Maradona, Kempes, batistuta, cannigia, tevez because of that Boca factor

eni4real:
May be you mean in the 60's

I know that Man united was already strong in the 60's with the likes of George Best, Bobby Charlton, Dennis Law, Duncan Edwards which are Ballon d'or winners..

England was able to win the World cup in 66 with other British players. I think England has been very strong even in the 60's

Italy has been perennially strong too

Germany and Spain became golden probably in the 70's but Real Madrid has always been the best team with Kopa Di Stefano, Gento, and Puskas...

Europe attract more foreigners, more talent, more competition. That is how I interpret it...

It is possible to be great in South America but become limited in Europe because of the variety of football personalities you will come against...

Pele had all Brazilian in his pockets..... His talents is undoubted because of his performance in intercontinental cups tho...

But my opinion is that playing every week's against variety of players in a foreign League is difficult than playing at home...

Neymar would have won more and score more if he had played in Santos all his career.. . with less injuries

And if he was lucky with the World cup, he would have won the Ballon d'or. Since he would be constantly compared to Pele, not playing in Europe won't be a disadvantage..

Pele scored 645 goals for Santos, most by any club player... Messi is coming close at 603 goals...

Let's keep our fingers crossed...

U c the way u contradict urself... U say Messi is greater than Pele... U said Pele played for only one club that not moving to Europe made it easier for him to succeed cos moving to Europe would hv limited his chances like neymar... But on the other hand, u say Messi is the greatest of all time , the same Messi that has played for one club all his life like Pele... U are nothing but a biased hypocrite

If u like kill a thousand of them.. these guys don't send, they will only see it as the way of Allah... They are like roaches .. they multiply

He chose Ronaldo over Messi

QueenSekxy:
Please, let him cry for all I care. Her no is her no.
She knows what she wants.

But when a woman is dumped after dating the guy for 5/6 yrs and he marries someone else, u will insult the man and u would not remember that his no is no

QueenSekxy:
Please, lemme hear word. He didn't meet her demands. Apart from money, what else did he bring to the table?

He's not worth spending a life time with. The lady knows what she wants, don't force him down her throat.

So she dint notice it after 6months... She had to drain him for 4yrs b4 realizing... That's fraud and wickedness... She collected iPhone, still collected Samsung...haba... If she knew she wasn't gonna marry him, y collect those expensive gifts..

eni4real:
I apologize for that. I must have added 1990 World cup final to it.

That makes 2 final loss without Messi??

I am sure you can't blame Messi for these

The 2004 Copa America final was lost through penalty too. Messi has not even played under-20 World cup then, let alone making a debut in the Copa America!!!

Are those penalty miss Messi's fault too ??

The last time Argentina won the Copa America was 1993!!
And I can assure you that 1993- 2006 Argentina are their golden generations!! How come they won just 1 Copa America and was a disaster in the World cup(best stage reached was Quarter final in 2006 when they were defeated by Germany on penalty shootout again)... Messi did not play in that Match...

Those talented group crashed out of the group stage of the World cup in 2002!!!

Is that Messi's fault too??

Whr did u see two finals lost?? Was Messi not in the 2007 squad that lost to Brazil in the copa final of 2007

They also won the confederation cup in 95

Portugal whr also trashed out in the group stage in 2002 ... Ronaldo helped Portugal to their first tournament final in history two years later... It was the same team that lost 2yrs ago in the WC...

Lol... It's in their gene.. just like he decieves his fans with Barca to win awards

eni4real:
Argentina failed in 3 Copa America finals before Messi debut!

I guess that is Messi's fault too??

Messi don't hide!!!

If his national team make it to any final, he is ready to lose with the team

If his team has a penalty shoot out, he is always ready to be the first taker

If his team has a real tournament he never leave his teammates only to. Make cameo in the semi final...

He lose with the team...

May be one day, he will win with the team...

That is why he was able to win the World cup and Copa American Golden ball despite his national team loss in the finals... He never hide...

Cris has won international trophies with Portugal but he hide a lot when it matter MOST....

Most emphasized....

He never hide at club levels tho!!!

U c the reason y I say u argue without facts... Now tell me how Argentina lost in 3 copa finals ...b4 Messi... U c the reason y I don't like replying u...

eni4real:
Torres vs Messi?? Nice one!!!

Even Egyptian Messi destroyed Ronaldo's goal record in his debut season for Liverpool... 44goals.

With Messi under Guardiola guardians, all the passes and creativity of those talented group will just be flowing

Messi will get many VIP assists in that team., 50 goals a season is an understatement tho....

Klopp better than Guardiola?? as an EPL coach or as an overall coach??
Klopp and Guardiola are very close this season like 96%score for Klopp and 94% score for Guardiola. Because Klopp won the UCL against all odd. He coached Trent to make that pass and Origi to do the Eder
But last season, Guardiola is like 95%score while Klopp was like may be 80% score based on performance at least Salah was on fire...

That is for their time in EPL
. Now overall career, Guardiola>>>>>>Klopp., Emphatic Yes!!! Klopp should win any kind of treble then we can talk about comparison!!!


Leo is the best ever in La Liga history
If he leave now and seek personal glory in 3 different leagues as outlined, he will definitely double Ronaldo's career records!!! Absolutely!!!
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Let him help Argentina first b4 helping others... 13 yrs now and he can't win anything with mighty Argentina... False prophet

ozoebuka1:
ronaldo fans troll Messi should've been the title.... Hateful lots

Just like Messi fans trolled Ronaldo when silver was named player of the tournament...