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That metamorphosed into the infamous ‘wet and windy Tuesday at Stoke’ claims that Messi is still faced with in the UK.

Pulis, though, believes the Argentine would handle himself just fine.

Writing for The Times, he said: “People are now asking how Lionel Messi might get on if he had to play at Stoke on a wet, windy Tuesday night. Or some of the slightly less glamorous Premier League grounds if he does sign for Manchester City.

“I think he would be amazing. He is blessed with amazing skill, of course. I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball miles into the air and then killed it dead with his foot when it came back down. Anthony and I just looked at each other. Normal human beings aren’t capable of doing that.

“But people forget just how robust Messi is. He is tough, strong, he tracks back for his team when necessary, and no matter what the situation he will create opportunities either for himself or his team-mates.”
There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi’s ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you’ve left by assigning someone to that role.

“The more sensible approach is to defend tighter and narrower, and try to play with discipline, because Messi will be in a team that poses a threat in plenty of other areas too. It’s no good focusing on Messi when City could also have Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero on the pitch.”

Manchester City finished second in the Premier League last term and start the new season on September 21 away to Wolves.

Indomine generation would not kill us.This can't be history na this is just in recent times.You really know nothing about football from time past

we keep celebrating this achievement yet Nigeria Ronaldo fans would claim Messi Olympic gold is nothing Ronaldo should be jealous about.Ronaldo Olympics participation ended with Iran humiliating him and Portugal

tyokunbo:
Those who say Messi is GOAT are wrong. Watch Maradona, and Messi looks fake. Mesi copied all of Maradona's moves. He's a clone of Maradona. How can a clone play better than the original. Messi never excites me because I saw Maradona make the same moves over twenty years ago, and with passion too. Messi can't play with passion because he's a copycat. Ronaldo is original, not a clone. He belongs there with Pele and Maradona.

funny enough Ronaldo is never mentioned amongst pele and maradona.Messi is the one mention in their class do eat the humble pie

Duru009:
I think this is the best time for Messi to go and seek new challenge. He can always come back to Barcelona in another capacity either as a coach for the academic, sporting director etc......

Now the ovation is load, let him go !

One more season first.let him break that pele record

DragonFire433:
Exactly

let's see how far they dominate

Bossontop:

At least the real GOAT (ororo) was not booted out, kicked out and disgraced out of d UCL......lol


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so what adjective do we use.He was escorted out

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

sorry when FIFA mentions best of all times only Messi is put in that bracket with maradona and Pele
only Ronaldo fans mention him there

I guess we would all agree drogba is ivory coast best striker.
But by your standard if rating Messi I would say NO Bonny is because drogba couldn't lead them to win the AFCON.Bonny did.

Messi is the best and even maradona knows it

Goke7:
kanu that never scored a single goal in any afcon lol, should we say he's overhyped too? I think some of us are too sentimental, if you have an attachment to a player, doesn't mean others too haven't done that well either

He win 2x African best any other titles including winning the Nigerian league and cup which Mikel couldn't do.How there you mistake Mikel been more decorated.
Kanu is not rated as one of the best strikers because he isn't prolific.Why should Chelsea fans rate drogba in that category.A striker that has only 104 EPL goals in 9 yrs.Averaging 13 goals a season .The difference between him and Ayebeni is that he was playing at Chelsea that was good enough to win titles.
Firmino just won EPL with just 9 goals.HORRIBLE.

12large1:
The problem with nigerians is how they negate mikel obi achievements when no one else has replicated similar result. First of all, do you think it is easy to stay at a big club for 10 years plus? Especially a wealthy one that spends money egregiously? You can't be a mere squad player and keep getting contract renewed numerous times. Mbanu! Next, mikel not only out scored and out assisted oliseh at country level, he also won more individual titles so when someone is saying they aren't comparable, he is just being mischievous. Personally I think Mikel obi was better and achieved better results and like my boss at a fortune 500 company used to say, An argument without Data is invalid

Did you just say replicate mikels achievement? Kanu is Nigerian greatest player in terms of achievement not the overhyped Mikel.
I think this is a Chelsea syndrome.Always overhyping their average players and club just as they do to drogba A striker that can get just 5 EPL goals a some seasons

TheGoodJoe:
Can a back up player start a champions league final?

Did betran not start that final

TheGoodJoe:
Mikel any day when you compare ths calibre of matches and playees he played with and against. Coupled with the fact he played in numerous successful finals.

Played against the likes of Scholes, Xabi Alonso, Xavi etc.

Also being a star performer in our AFCON success.

Na Dem. indomine generation
Olise played with the best in the world in Italy while Mikel played with the best in England.
Seria A was legendary and the best in olise days

JosephXavier:
I'm still wondering how Buhari is Nigeria's president

Exactly okocha closest chance was in '98 and he lost by 2 Votes.So No one is to be blame

judedwriter:
PSG was clearly the most prestigious club Okocha played for and the club also holds him in prestige.

But then PSG wasn't so big.More like a westham today

olaric:
Still wondering how CAF didn't deem Jay Jay good enough to win the African Footballer of the Year award during his playing days.

Which of the winners that he was up against was he better than?

Beverlyjean:
U guys keep on posting trash... the record is 36 by higuain, so when did he score 37??

I'm talking of AGE not goals.pls read properly

paulolee:
they are few who could do wat cr7 is doing as such age...but you guys should learn how to accept defeat bcoz cr7 cnt win all d times..

What Ronaldo is doing at his age in Seria A is a perfect fit.Seria A is a league were old men do well.Luca tonni won golden boot at 38 the heighest scorer that beat Ronaldo the season before was 37.Ronaldo is even younger at 35.This season height goal scorer is already 33.Ronaldo is just in the perfect league to shine at his Age

[quote author=feedthenation post=92667318]Who else, if not Ronaldo, he literally carried Juventus to win the title [/quote
But he was bought to win the UCL

stormborn28:
I never knew some can mention Papa sango.. That man was something else.. I have never seen him fight an opponent rather the light will go off by the time it comes on the opponent is on the floor with blood covering his face.... I no know which kind juju e dey use

Oyibo man and packaging are simply the BEST
Back then anyone coming up against Papa sango Na RIP

crossfm:
You are right. If you tell me say this guy wasn't from Africa when we small I for fight with you.

Oyibo man too much.They can play our roles,sing our songs,do our things well packaged and better than us.Why are they always better?

If it was the regular format he would have certainly create a new record.He could have done 20 goals.But with this new format,he can still match it if the go all the way to the finals.Thaybwe he would have 3 games to score 4.

in 2006 Warri,UGHELLI,Oleh and Oghara stadia hosted the African women championship teams like cameroon,south Africa,Mali,Ghana,Algeria,Congo.

Uchasa:
You must be very funny
Most footballers that have made Nigeria proud are not from Delta, only few.
Abia and Delta have produced equal number of wonderfull players that has made Nigeria proud, but its too small compared to Imo state and Anambra state who seem to have the highest number of wonderfull players that Nigeria has ever produced.
My state Rivers is still upcoming sha.

Delta have produced the best sports men in Nigeria football, athletics,Combat sports, swimming.Delta are the USA of Nigeria when it comes to the sport festival

darfay:
Warri hosted under 17 world cup so guy rest!!

No we did get the hosting right for that one because of kidnapping they was rampant then in 2009

kheny12:
No they can host cup world

4 of those stadia hosted the African women championship(The nations cup for women) in 2002 and 2006.African Athletic championship Asaba 2018,Plenty of Nigeria Athletic championships at different levels

airsaylongcom:
Ughelli what? You call that field near the police station a township stadium? That field that has been unchanged from when I first lived in Ughelli as a toddler in 86?

It's in a port state now cos of lack of maintenance.That stadium was built by ibori in 2001 and hosted games at the African women championship Nigeria 2002 and 06.countries like Ghana,Cameroon,Mali played there

flyinnizam:
Sapele stadium is nonsense. I live here...remove it asap

Still way better than most of the NPFL stadiums we have in the country.Trust me I know the sapele stadium very well and most stadiums in this country.As a sport lover when I visit most states my first site of attraction is the stadium and Most stadiums in Nigeria are terrible.What we have in Delta is better.Meanwhile my aunty is celebrating her birthday today in Old trafford

martineverest:
they are busy building stadiums when that state is one of the most backward states in terms of infrastructure

Those stadiums were built over time.Ibori did 70% of them uduagan 20% Okowa did the Asaba stadium

martineverest:
they are busy building stadiums when that state is one of the most backward states in terms of infrastructure

Those stadiums were built over time.Ibori did 70% of them uduagan 20%

Delta state is truly the leader of sports in Nigeria.From dominating the Nigeria sports festival,to producing Nigeria finnest sport personnel's,to having the best sport facilities in the country.You didn't add OGHARA stadium it hosted games at the African women championship in 2002 & 2006,UGHELLI stadium,SAPELE stadium,Oghwashukwu Stadium all of which are better than most NPFL stadiums in the country.

AustineJohn908:
Yes o, it is Eder that scored the goal that qualified them for semi final.
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It is bale also that scored the Heart trick against wolfburg that save them from elimination after loosing the first leg 2-0 in bernabau...
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it is same bale that scored that breathtaking bicycle kick against Juve that made the whole stadium give a standing ovation.
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it is the same bale that scored the first goal in the final against Juve and added another to kill the game.
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it is the same bale that scored that heart trick against athletico Madrid during the semi final of the Champions league when Ronaldo was playing with Madrid.

Bro you need help!
when you see greatness, admit it.
Madrid have rubbed Ronaldo's back just as much as Ronaldo has rubbed theirs.
Madrid equal Ronaldo- a match made in heaven.

I thought you all said Ronaldo and 10 woods can win UCL.

if Eder didn't score in the final Portugal would just be a finalist
if bale wasn't signed Madrid would have ended in the semi finals
FACT you don't want to see