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logica: You mean he just hit 20? I would've thought he had over 100 with the number he takes!

yes cus I know he averages 3 or 4 free kicks per game if not more, and he has played maybe 300 games for madrid. Could that mean 20 freekick goals out of 900 attempts?

usbcable: Ronaldo has now scored 20 direct free-kicks for Madrid, overtaking Ronaldinho's 19 for Barça.

20 out of how many? 19 out of how many? Maybe 20 out of 300, maybe 19 out of 100. Pls research more and tell us.

Whenever you succeed with him just make sure no fifa official is present when he flips out his dick cus they will just collect their cup back.

During football tournaments? Not during age grade competitions like yesterday cus I can't say for other countries but we always cheat, whether anybody likes me to mention it or not. At the africa cup of nations yes I was proudly nigerian. As far as iam concerned nigerians had reason to be proud in football just once in about 20 years. That's february this year when we won afcon. Besides that nothing else so this post is baseless.

[quote author=United_abby]and what are you insinuating?that they are over aged?i honestly think you need urgent help kid![/quote]why not make yours and let others be entitled to their comments? Does he not have a right to think otherwise if he thinks they are overaged or must everybody bury our head in the sands?

God punish anyone calling these young eaglets old men. even from their faces, none of those men is more than 25.

How can we be number 1 in under 17 and number 34 in foottball? something ias wrong somewhere.

Mixed feelings. The painful thing is that if this match is replayed in 10 years time when both teams are 27 years old we won't be able to win again.

[quote author=barack_o_handso]Yeah I agree, but asides the fact that 50% of Barcelona fans buy match day tickets specifically to watch him play, he also loves and wants to play. His legs scratches him whenever he's on the bench, and the last time Tata substituted him, he was clearly vexed and he showed it. [/quotelol. That's why his situation is so delicate.

[quote author=barack_o_handso]Rightly so. I get your point, and everybody knows who Messi is, so his 50goal a season haul is not just a Barca/La liga record, it's a world record. No league has ever had a player score such an amount of goals in a season, he's Messi so it's not suprising. My point is "Change is permanent", so we can't expect him to keep scoring 73goals in a season, and he's on a mission to become the greatest player ever (to me he is already), so if by easing his game you mean consistently resting him, there's a particular Ronaldo that'll play catch up.[/quote]by easing his game I meam- maybe rest him for some home games against lower table teams, I mean home games not away! And also resting him for cup games like uefa and copa de after we've qualified. That would make him fresh and injury free so that instead of say 55 games a season he could play 40. With that he should still be our false number nine, no compromise for me.

philfearon: Exactly..Thats What i do too....its just that haterz are so myopic,they cant see all the facts that there are!
Imagine,i saw "Ronaldo breaks Messi's record of 12goals in a single year in UCL"..i was like,choi! So Ronaldo is now breaking the record of a player he is 2yrs older than? Smh!

lol. But it was actually so ridiculous when I saw the headline. There was never any record like messi scored 12 champions league goals in a calendar year. How is that a record? Since when did champions league goals get counted by the calendar year?Messi scored 14 in the 11/12 season. What's the meaning of 12 goals in a year? Across 2 champions league seasons? What a joke?

[quote author=barack_o_handso]I agree with you on the CB purchase but not on the position change for Messi. Teams are finding more and more ways to mark and thereby making him injury prone, it showed in the second half of last season. I believe his goals would start pouring in soon, he just needs to score one to break the jinx, and if Tata Martino wants to change his position, I think it's good as he'll be able to switch when he's been overcrowded as he regularly is, even freeing more space for Neymar, Pedro and Alexis.

NB: His performance against Real Madrid was below par but i'll take the 3points over and over again, unlike last season when he scored and we still lost.[/quote]and what about all those many classicos he scored in and we won? Have u forgotten so soon? I say we ease his game for the next 3 months and when he gets 100 fit again he continues his false nine role. Barcelona has existed for so so long and no striker has given us 50 goals in la liga and 73 in all and no striker ever will. Not lewandowsky not anybody. His goals have made this the most successful barcelona of all time. He is just 26 and when he's fully fit again, we return to status quo ante. What needs to be changed is the play pattern not messi's position. He has 14 goals and we lead la ligA and uefa standings despite his injury. NB-neymar haas become a handful for opponents, he is more than enough plan B already. Lol.

sapien: If Barca eventually get to sign a striker like Lewandowski in January to complement our attack, the formation should go thus, especially in big matches:
Valdes
Alves- Pique- Mascherano- Alba/Adriano
Busquets- Xavi/Iniesta

Messi

Alexis- Lewandowski- Neymar jr

Messi should be able to play the playmaking role like he does in the albiceleste national team behind Higuian/Aguero.

Since Xavi isn't getting any younger and becoming prone to sluggishness, he should be able to assist Busquets in the double pivot role. Iniesta may even start in a case where fluidity is needed in the final third.
This formation would make Messi less susceptible to the overcrowding he always undergoes in the final third against ultra-defensive sides like Chelsea. He would be able to release quick passes to Neymar jr and Lewandowski on the break to wreck havoc, since Barca is evolving from the traditional tiki-taka to a more direct and counter attacking approach under Tata.

AJ, JP, DMC, Dippset, Phil, Logica, Mcle007 etc what do you guys think about this formation?

bro i think you raised good points. though i still think we should buy a natural CB in january pair with pique. masch is trying but that still isnt his position and it shows sometimes. also i dont quite agree with changing the position of a player who gives us at least 40 goals in la liga and at least 55 goals in all competitions. that would be criminal.

RuuDie: There you go... who is talking about JM's credentials!? I asked a simple question, did the manager really do enough in the face of the situation? It is norm to bash manager's when things do not go as planned - why is JM an exception?

abi o. even the man u fans bashed their sir once in a whille. ancelotti, guordiola, wenger, benitez, capello were all bashed. but for mourinho when the team flops, 1 million players would be pointed out for the blame, but when the team wins, he is the special one, the master tactician. bu11sh1t! blame mourinho for the loss, he makes the selections.

when ronaldo failed to score in the first 4 or 5 games of the season, nobody talked about it and nobody gave a damn about it, but for messi, the whole world is talking. that's genius if you ask me.

did his son sit behind the newcastle bench yesterday?

i dont think there's anything wrong with messi. he is just being human. after 5 games in the season messi was at least 6 goals ahead of ronaldo. then the injuries started coming again and now he's 5 goals behind. it's normal for a player to go 4 or more games without scoring. it has happened to ronaldo. more significantly it has happened to pele, maradona, ronaldinho, raul, real ronaldo, etc etc. by january messi will reclaim his top scorer spot. i put my money on that. if that's so important to the world.

lol. he is lionel messi. even when he scores only one goal in a match, he is the flop of the match.

usbcable: [size=30pt]SALUTE FROM THE GENERAL HIMSELF[/size]
C-ororo

Shun sir

lol. wasnt that salute after a penalty goal?

and ronaldo saying that he might never win ballon d'or with blatter in charge is just a very cheap shot and a lame excuse for his failure. did his team captain and coach not vote for him last time? has blatter ever voted?

[quote author=barack_o_handso]Sepp Blatter shouldn't just have made those comments. Fine he's a fan too and he has his preference but at the same time he should realize his position. His apology is like throwing a knife away after it had already cut you.


That being said, records don't lie, Ronaldo has always been second best to Messi over the last five years and he shouldn't look for an excuse for not winning the Ballon D'or again this year, he's a great player but next year's award is between Messi and Ribery[/quote]what do we do now? we all agree that the old man 'misyarned'. do we kill him? he apologized already. he was talking to students and the question was thrown at him. it wasn't premeditated. the old man was trying to crack a couple of grand pa jokes to make the kids laugh but like old men do, he went out of line. and really nobody spoke about the ballon d'or in that conference. it's the ever mischievous press. ronaldo has got quite a lot of sympathizers who have been looking for excuses for several years as to why he always lost to messi and they thought they had gotten the perfect excuse and decided to latch on it. it's not about what blatter says, i challenge anybody to lay ronaldo's performance over the past 4 years side by side with messi's and let's compare. ronaldo has never performed better than messi. never.

AjanleKoko: No mind am.
he wants to show us that Blatter has 'begged' Ronaldo.

Oya No Vex Again, Ronnie. Somebody help me give Ronnie a hug. Sorry, a penalty
Aww, sheet. I forget, he got one yesterday!

abi o! well, the whole world knows he apologized for everything he said but the fact that he prefers messi, which majority of the world concurs with.

usbcable: Letter sent by the President of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, to Joseph Blatter at 12:23 p.m.

Dear President,

We were surprised to read your remarks concerning our player Cristiano Ronaldo and his chances of being crowned Ballon d'Or and FIFA Player of the Year winner; this has caused great disappointment among the Real Madrid family because these misguided and unacceptable comments were made by the President of World Football's leading Authority.

On the one hand, they are unfair because they are made about a player who is respected the world over by millions of fans, and not just Real Madrid supporters. He is undeniably one of the greatest footballers that the world has ever seen. The comments are also disrespectful to him as a person as, on the other hand, he embodies sporting values in the eyes of society which is in genuine need of the kind of example that he sets; finally, it is our understanding that your remarks may determine the vote of those whose responsibility it is to decide on the winner of this accolade.

We, at Real Madrid, a club which has a special connection with FIFA in view of our position as a founding member, are profoundly disappointed by the whole episode and, as President of Real Madrid, I want you to know that we condemn your comments, which is why we would ask that you retract them to make up, to the extent possible, for the damage caused both to the player and the institution that we represent.

Yours Sincerely,
Florentino Pérez



Letter sent by the President of FIFA, Joseph Blatter, to the President of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, at 16:12 p.m.

Dear President:

I received your letter earlier today and was surprised by the content contained therein.

Firstly, I would like to point out that at the ceremony held last Friday at Oxford University, no discussions were held about the aspirations of any player with regard to the FIFA Ballon d'Or. At the end of my speech, and in response to a question about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the moderator asked me to choose between the two and, at that moment in time, having stated that Messi is the kind of son that any mother would like to have, I finally gave his name. However, I would like to make it quite clear that it is my opinion that Cristiano Ronaldo is at the same level as Messi and that both are extraordinary players, each in his own way.

I regret that this situation at a university ceremony has caused you so much distress and I would like to apologise for it. It was never my intention to cause discomfort or show a lack of respect to Real Madrid FC, one of it players or its support, not only because it is the founding club of FIFA but also because it is a club that I have followed and admired since I was a child.

Kind Regards,
Joseph Blatter.

usb, why u de show us this letters now? lol.

yourangel: Lionel Messi apologizes to Sepp Blatter for being so likable


Dear President Blatter,

I read that you have gotten into some trouble with Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid and the Portuguese federation for saying that you liked me more than him. This upset me very much. I also saw that you apologized for your comments, but I feel that I am the one who should apologize to you for causing this trouble in the first place.

I'm sorry for being so nice and for doing things that you and many other people like so much. For too long now, comparisons between Cristiano and I have produced negativity for many people around the world and I realize that if I wasn't the way that I am, this wouldn't happen and others wouldn't get hurt by it. I tried making children in the United States cry and not paying my taxes in Spain. I even scored just 60 goals in 50 matches last season instead of 73 in 60 matches like the season before. But people still love me and insult other footballers like Cristiano for not being exactly like me.

You said that Ronaldo has "more expenses for the hairdresser" than I do, but that's only because I have a very serious gel allergy that prevents me from using fancy hair products. If it wasn't for the threat of a very painful death, I would have enough grease in my hair to start a kitchen fire at a McDonald's. I would also love to boldly wear clothing that angers people by being too tiny for my body the way Cristiano does, but I already wear clothes originally made for dolls and there simply isn't anything smaller. I know this is adorable, but it's also frustrating to the point where I spend two to three minutes a day not smiling and laughing.

I am extremely disappointed in myself for causing these problems to you, Cristiano, Real Madrid and Portugal. I'm not sure what I can do to make it up to all of you, but I will promise to try harder to be unlikable so these awful situations can be avoided in the future. I will tell my friends that I will pick them up from the airport and then never show up. I will write negative internet reviews for restaurants that I actually enjoyed. I will approach random people in the streets and blurt out spoilers to popular films and television shows. Whatever it takes to make Pele and Maradona argue about everything except me.

With a bit of luck, there will soon be a few mothers and fathers who see me as the kind of son that they wouldn't want to have because maybe they really wanted a painter or a sewage treatment specialist or even no kids at all. Then the world will never have to suffer these hurtful issues again. I'm going to make something charmingly offensive out of Lego pieces now.

Hugs and regrettably kind regards,

Lionel A. Messi

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/lionel-messi-apologizes-sepp-blatter-being-likable-093219206--sow.html

i cant believe i tried to verify this letter. funny stuff.

the best goal I have seen is mardaona's goal against england.

philfearon: dats kul...
Ah even wan go sleep now! The match is as good as won!

i need a brace from messi to complete my night.

philfearon: Hahahahaha.....Dats funny...
How far,u d watch the match??
Whew! Messi's shot is saved by the keeper!!

at work now so iam missing it but iam following live text on goal.com.

philfearon: Earlier?
I have just one name: Ronaldinho!

lol. ok let's say 1 second before messi.

philfearon: Ronaldo is a cry-cry baby...

he should have come 5 years before messi. it would have done him a lot of good.

[quote author=barack_o_handso]You get my point. Some jokes are too expensive. Ronaldo, in his reply said "A lot has been explained" which I think means that he thinks fifa purposely favors Messi ahead of him.[/quote]the joke was actually expensive, but ronaldo shouldn't even insinuate anything and think he's gotten his 'alibi' because in all of the past 4 years that messi won the ballon d'or, messi's performance and numbers never lied!

sepp blatter is a human being who like majority of football fans across the world prefers messi to ronaldo. but he was wrong to mention the hair issue. he was trying to be funny but ronaldo didnt enjoy the joke.