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Guardiola is a good coach, no doubt.. But there's nothing special about him..

When he came to bayern, he inherited a sqaud that had just won the treble(UCL included), but during the three years he spent there, he could not win a single UCL trophy

Then he came to City, the players he met there had just won the Epl while also getting to the UCL semi finals, but he decided they were not good enough, and changed most of the players, he even bought defenders for the price of a striker then.. Still yet, he has not been able to win a UCL trophy despite some favourable treatment from UEFA..

Truth is, without Messi, Guardiola is nothing more than a spainish version of David Moyes..

eni4real:
You forgot his beautiful goal against Iran in stoppage time

There is nothing beautiful about that goal bros.. I have seen better goals... Besides he was not that good in that game just like his teams

If he was so great, why did he not score a single goal during the knock out stages.. GOAT when he meets average teams during the group stages but when he meets good teams at the K/O stage, he's no different from Jesse lingard

eni4real:
Messi won the FIFA World Cup golden ball..
Never forget that World cup golden ball is the reason why Modric was better than Ronaldo in 2018!!!
World cup golden ball is a personal legacy...

Even Giroud has a world Cup but he will never be as good as Didier Drogba!!!

Forlan scored 5 in 2010

Messi scored 4 and assist 1 with most MOTM performance in 2014 World cup... He made it look too easy tho.. That is why people think he should crash out of the group stage like Portugal did in the same World cup!!!

What about Kahn vs Real Ronaldo in 2002?
Kahn won the World cup golden ball... While Ronaldo came 2nd despite scoring 8goals in the tournament...

Ronaldo vs kahn?, ronaldo scored lots of goals during that tournament, agreed.. But kahn is a goal keeper, you dont expect a goal keeper to score goals na, rather you expect him to prevent the opposition from scoring, and he did that perfectly.. 5 clean sheets in 7 matches

The only decent match messi played during that 2014 WC was against Nigeria, even Ahmed musa replicated everything he did in that match.. When he started facing the good teams during the knockout stages, he went AWOL, he could not even score a single goal

Please dont quote me again till Messi wins an internationl trophy with argentina

eni4real:
Messi was far better than Muller in 2014??

What about Forlan vs Xavi/Iniesta/Schneider in 2010?? According to you, Forlan did not deserve it??

Just because Messi made it look easy does not mean that Muller was close!!!


Which international trophy are you talking about?? Eder's own or Guedes own!!!
Greek won Euro too, so stop sweating about the Euros.. And UNL is a modified friendly!!

Ronaldo more than Argentina team?? Are we talking about the same Ronaldo that has no world cup legacy??

Stop stressing yourself on the 3rd best player in the world!!!

Unlike messi, forlan was the joint highest goal scorer at the 2010 world cup

And you even mentioned sneijder, the same player messi stole the balon d'or from?? He won the italian serie A, italian league cup, UCL, went to the world cup final and was also a joint top scorer at the WC, yet messi who lost 4-0 to germany at the world cup QF after losing to sneijder at the UCL semi final won the award..
Fifa has always been known to favour Messi, no doubt

Players who have a legacy at the world cup include pele, maradona, etc who won the WC.. Ronaldo and messi are both failures there, infact, ronaldo's situation is justifable, his country has never won the WC and they are not among the top teams in the world unlike argentina

Wake me up when messi wins an international trophy, even if he does not play a single match and is benched throughout the entire tournament, I dont care

Onitola2:
The only way messi would survive in the epl is if he carries the entire barca team, their coach, their staff and even Camp nou with him to England but barca has been changing personels and his level is still d same, just imagine him with de bruyne, silvas, fenandinho, sterling and Co or rooney, tevez, Carrick, evra, vidic, Ferdinand and Co. Or with same squad Ronaldo played with in Madrid or this juve

Please name one extremely good player in this juve team.. Dybala is overrated, Higuain?? According to u guys, he's a flop n the reason why messi does not an international trophy.. Pjanic?? Good but average.. Juve best players are Ronaldo, buffon n Chiellini.. And they are all over thirty..

Then you mention madrid, yes they had good individual players, but barca had a better team.. Imagine what ronaldo would do with xavi and iniesta by his side or guardiola as his coach

Messi had higuain, aguero, di maria, tevez, mascherano, millito, banega at argentina and yet he won nothing... Meanwhile ronaldo has the likes of eder,guedes and already has more international than all those players combined

eni4real:
Ronaldo that scored 3 goals in the whole 2016 tournament. .. Perform well only against Hungary and Wales but got injured like Salah against the toughest opponent??

Or the Cristiano that was hiding in Juventus when Portugal was playing in the UNL until the team qualified for the semi final and therefore played an Origi role in that game??

VARadona should be red carded after his handball goal and get banned for 2 games!!


All these guys are not good examples for national team success . Real Ronaldo and Zidane are far better!!!

Messi may not win the World cup but he has won the best award by a player in the world cup.. That is his personal legacy..

Combined with his club exploit, he is the best ever!!!

Let's check the last Monday together

Who won the best??
Who came 2nd??

Who finished 3rd??

Wait bros, between me and you, do you really think messi was a better player than muller at the 2014 WC??

Messi scored against bosnia, iran n Nigeria at the group stages, but when he got to the knockout stages when things became tough, he was looking up to the likes of higuain n di maria to bail him out..

Then we have muller who won the world cup, was the second highest goal scorer after james and delivered some really good performance both in the knockout n group stages..

See bros, even if you like collect all the trophies available at club level, win every possible award.. You are nothing if you dont have an international trophy.
The BEST you are here bragging about, when they presented the players on the screen, what jersey were they wearing, club or country??

Lemme tell you something, do you know ronaldo has more international trophies than the entire argentina team combined?.. Do you know the number of goals ronaldo has scored for his country during his last five games is more than the number messi has scored since the end of 2016??

eni4real:
Eder!!!!
Guedes

Please don't compare VARadona with Messi again!!!

If Ronaldo did not score a hat trick against switzerland, would guedes have had the oppurtunity to score against N'lands??

If ronaldo did not score two goals against wales or equalise twice against hungary when they were on the blink of elimination, would eder have scored against france??

Unlike messi, ronaldo always turns up when he is needed.. 2018, ronaldo scored a hat trick against juve, on the return leg, juve was leading 3-0, then ronaldo scored a last min winner.... 2019, barca defeated l'pool 3-0.. On the return leg, l'pool scored 4, a single goal from messi would have been enough to save barca, instead the nigga was running around like a headless chicken

VAR or no var, maradona has a world cup trophy, something messi will never have.. If we're talking about VAR, then some of messi UCL would not stand due to various irregularities at the knock out stages

AverageAnnie:
biased list... What happened to pure Africans?? Ini Edo has a finer face structure than these ones.

Even you fine pass Ini Edo...

eni4real:
The moment

The last Argentina won a trophy was in 1993!!!

The last time they reached a world cup final before Messi era was 1990!!!

You can check the last Monday bro!!!!

Before ronaldo, portugal had won nothing even when they had greats like eusebio and figo, but the moment he stepped in, three finals, two trophies.. And he even plays in europe where they are not even among the ten top teams

But with messi, about four finals, he lost everything.. Thats even in america where they invite teams from other continents like China to play at copa america

Argentines will never rate messi above maradona, yet you are here claiming that messi is the goat

lordprogress:
You are a clown name 1 epl team that has met messi with out being destroyed is it arsenal,liverpool,man city,man united, spurs get your facts right stop speaking thrash all this ronaldo fans them they console their self.

How many goals does Messi have against chelsea?? If you mention Liverpool, I will understand because Messi destroyed them at anfield the last time they met

Shevchenko was the bane of english clubs at the UCL, but when he came to chelsea, he flopped.. Even falcao destroyed chelsea when they met in europe, what did he do in england?

Messi would meet the same fate his brother di maria experienced if he dares come to the epl

eni4real:
You are comparing Ibra, Falcao etc to Messi...
You have forgotten than low budget Messi scored 32goals, Van Persie scored 30 goals, Henry scored 30 goals, Harry Kane scored 30 goals, even Aguero an inferior player to Messi has destroyed most goals record in EPL history and on course to overtake Henry in all time EPL chart...

For you to set 35 goals for Messi, that shows that you are scared of him... Nobody has scored more than 32goals in EPL history (only Egyptian Messi).. Imagine what the real Messi will do while playing for Man city

Is Salah a better goal scorer than Ibra Your arguement that Messi would dominate epl would be valid if he had done anything good outside barcelona, but time I checked, argentina stopped winning trophies the moment Messi wore their jersey.. If Messi could not dominate copa america, where only about 4 teams are good.. Why do u think he would dominate epl where even norwich can beat man city??

ToryWoods:
Same EPL that Salah and Suarez scored more than 35 goals?

Must you embarass urself on NL with your fake statistics?? I know you know nothing of football, but a simple search on google would save you this embarassment

Onitola2:
lol, ibra was playing with rashford, smalling, Ashley Young and Co(even morinho said its his greatest achievement that they finished 2nd that year, nobody got double figures other than ibra then ) small teams beat d big boys too in la Liga, muller has more goals in world cup goals than CR7 too, does that mean he's better than him? Imagine Messi during d Era of Fergie (getting service from peak rooney, evra, Scholes...... Or man city with de bruyne, silvas, sterling an co) o boy, he will get 50 league goals

I never said Muller was better than Messi, because since you guys said Messi would score guys for fun in epl since players like salah, auba who he is better than are doing the same thing, then my question is why is Messi not outscoring Muller in the WC since we know he's better than him...

The only way messi would survive in the epl is if he carries the entire barca team, their coach, their staff and even Camp nou with him to England

eni4real:
The same reason why Salah's goal was better than Ronaldo one wonder bicycle kick!!! Still in 2018??

You can check the last Monday bro

Who won the best??

Messi won the best last month, not last Monday bros... Which place you for come abeg, you guys dont have calender there

ClintonNzedimma:
Your argument is flawed, There is a huge connection between Messi’s goal against betis and his golden boot than Ronaldo’s goal against Juve and anything now

Golden boot is for the highest number of goals scored by a player, not the most beautiful goal bros... So what connection are u talking about?? All this messi fans sef, una nor go kill person

Nuelstar:
stupid quote... Just reason ur self

The guy nor the watch match jorh.. Is it not the same america that rooney went to dominate after he began to flop at man utd and everton

Abi its not the same america that a 38years old player who is not even as good as Ronaldo's weaker left foot is currently dominating

Onitola2:
if Salah, aguero and auba are scoring freely, don't u think Messi will? This is a simple math bro, after all we both know that he's better than any of them

Ibra is a better goal scorer than those three you mentioned yet he couldnt get up to 20 epl goals..
There is a reason why norwich and wolves defeated man city, thats because the league is unpredictable, just because Messi is performing wonders in la liga does not mean he would dominate the epl..
Do you know Messi is a better player than thomas Muller, how come Muller has more world cup goals than Messi who have played roughly the same amount if not more games than Muller??

eni4real:
But the Egyptian Messi scored 32 goals destroying the previous record set by Suarez and Cristiano...

Imagine if the real Messi play there!!!!

First I said Messi would not get up to 35 goals.. I never said 32

Besides because Salah scored 32 goals is no guarantee that messi would get up to that number,, and even the salah you mentioned, how many did he score last season??

You can argue with me about who's better between ronaldo and messi, but please dont compare Epl to la liga.. There is a reason why Ibra never got up to 20 epl goals and why falcao flopped at chelsea n man utd, and those two are better goalscorers than salah and they played well in la liga

eni4real:
You are still in April 2018??

A lot has happened since then..

Modric won the World cup golden ball
Modric won FIFA the best, Ballon d'or, IFHSS best, UEFA best, and Goal 50 best player award
Salah won the Puskas award

Now fast forward to October 2019,

Let's check the last Monday together

Who the best??

Who came 2nd??

Who finished 3rd??!!

You have a problem with me talking about 2018 but here you are disturbing us about what happened last season.. Okay bro, did you watch juve vs man utd, did you see the volley ronaldo scored against DDgea, besides if Messi's goal was that good.. Why did he not win the puskas award??

Slawormir:
See ehnnnnn as a real niggarrr


i thought Ronaldo was far behind Lionel Messi











Untill i watched Lionel Messi's third goal against real betis
And i realize i was hundred percent correct!

You all need to see that goal!

Messi is a real niggarrr

Ronaldo scored a worldie against juventus. A top team with europe's best defence at that time and one of the greatest goal keepers of all times, yet you are here bragging about how Messi scored against a goal keeper that wont even play a single match if he was a player of Enyimba FC

Who do u this one bros??

The reason he's afraid of leaving barcelona.. Let him come to Epl, lets see if he would score up to 35 league goals.. Nonsense

10.MANUEL NEUER

9. ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI

8.FRANK RIBERY

7.NEYMAR JR.

6. LUIS SUAREZ

5. LUKA MODRIC

The player who finally broke the Messi-Ronaldo duopoly.
Has won four UCL trophies while also leading his country to the 2018 world cup final.
A very constitent player and a joy to watch on the football pitch like a certain Argentine.

4. SERGIO RAMOS

Since the turn of the decade, he has won four UCL trophies, two la liga trophies,a world cup trophy with spain as well as several individuals honours.
Love him or hate him, their is no denying his desire to win.
A man for the big moments.

3.ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

Such is his constitency that he could easily be the best player of the decade, if not for the brilliance of, well, you know them.
At 38, he is still tearing up defences in America after finding success with the likes of Man Utd and PSG.
Zlatan has gained a reputation as a visitor who comes to visit, looks around, and conquers all before him.

2. LIONEL MESSI

The most talented player to ever grace a football pitch.
A joy to watch with the ball at his feet.
The moment where he destroyed boateng and his bayern team at the UCL was simply mesmerising.
Comes second on our list after winning seven la liga trophies and four balon d'or awards.
Greatest of all time??

1. CRISTIANO RONALDO

The greatest goalscorer and most complete player to ever grace a football pitch.
He is the only player to have scored 100 goals each with his head, left foot and right foot, and has gone on to break numerous records this decade.
Tops the list after winning two international trophies, four UCL trophies as well as four balon d'or awards.
Greatest of all time??

The Portuguese club have revealed their former prodigy is in contention for a massive honour,
Cristiano Ronaldo could be set to have a stadium named after him as Sporting consider rebranding Estadio Jose Alvalade.

While his senior career didn't last long at Sporting, Ronaldo has left a lasting legacy at the club with Varandas confirming they are considering renaming Estadio Jose Alvalade after him.
"It is an idea that we do not put aside and one of which we would obviously be very proud of," Varandas told Tuttosport .
"Cristiano is - and always will be - one of the greatest symbols of our club's history. We are proud to be associated with Cristiano Ronaldo and that the name of the best footballer in the world is combined with Sporting.
"As far as our young people are concerned, we are trying to keep his example inside the academy."
Ronaldo's early commitment at Sporting is now the thing of legend with many former teammates since revealing how dedicated he was - even at such an early age.
Spanish midfielder Tonito is one of those and told Gazzetta earlier this year how much of impact he made at the club.
"During training, he'd turn heads among the veterans," Tonito said.
"I'd say to him: 'Steady, don't overdo it.' I would also give him lifts [to and from training]. But I'd have to wait an hour at the training ground, because he never wanted to leave.
"I'd bang on the window of the gym and say: 'Come on, Cris, it's time to stop - it's getting late!"
Estadio Jose Alvalade was rebuilt at the turn of the millennium and re-opened in 2003 with an expanded capacity of just over 50,000.
The first match played at the venue following the reconstruction was Sporting's famous 3-1 win over the Red Devils - a game where Ronaldo showed he'd very quickly become a household name.

Uruan2023:
This show should end tomorrow please.

I can't fathom what our youths learn from it.

China didn't have this shit to get to where they are today...our youths though.

At least the housemates are making their money while the organisers of the show are getting rich..

Instead of you to be thinking of how to make money.. You are busy shouting China with your mtn free 10mb data

Are you not a Nigerian?? Tell me how being here on NL criticizing BBN will make Nigeria great again??

Zlatan whose freestyle prowess is well recognized by music fans has just in a matter of minutes put together a music composition that mocks Tacha’s alleged body odour crisis. The indigenous rapper took to his Inatagram page to post a video of himself and some other guys vibing really hard to the incoming tune. Zlatan also revealed that if music followers would love him to drop the song urgently, they should rack up twenty thousand comments under the post which is already just a few thousands away from being achieved.

The video ia really hilarious with Zlatan showing hia creative skill to mash up the names of Tacha and Mercy together on the track in a brilliant manner.

Watch video below:

https://tooxclusive.com/zlatan-asks-for-40000-instagram-comments-to-drop-hilarious-new-song-about-ex-big-brother-naija-house-mate-tacha-watch-snippet/

Blabbermouth:
A 36 year old player won the serie A golden boot.
So, on what reason was he given the best player award in serie A.

If the golden boot was a prerequisite to winning the best player in a division, then I guess van Dijk would not have won the best player in epl last season.. And aguero would have had about 3 epl POTY awards by now

jayson87:
really madrid was inferior... this case is closed. Ronaldo enjoyed tap-ins in all is glory days at madrid. Ozil and Di maria assist tally is still a record unmatched by any football club in the world. who was the beneficiary of all those assist... the tap in master himself, ronaldo, Please cut the crap. Lewandowski, Ronaldo and Aguero are all on the same level of performance in the 2018./2019 season

I guess di maria and ozil was still in madrid when ronaldo scored 44 goals in 43 matches in his last season in madrid..

Madrid may have had better players individually on paper but you cant compare their team to barca..
Same way man utd had probably the best individual players in epl last season, but the worst team..

And you dare speak of beneficiaries.. Tell me how many champions league messi have won since the likes of xavi, iniesta, and neymar left barca... After di maria left madrid, they won 3 champions league with ronaldo playing a major role in all of them especially in the knockout stages where he scored a large percentage of madrid's goal

Since those 3 left barca.. The only thing messi has done is to throw away huge leads to the likes of roma and liverpool

OGHENAOGIE:
who would have quoted that... ? well let's wait for ballon dor when VVD ll collect his true prize Messi won a popular FIFA World Best not a deserved one

Thank you.. Now we're on the same page

jayson87:
starts showed ronaldo started 31 games, paitek started 35 games. Point of correction, ronaldo had only 7 assist not 8.
A player who rose from the ranks of genoa to ac milan outscored Ronaldo! what a shame. He doesnt deserve to get a mention on the fifa best list.

22 goals in 35 games compared to 21 in 31 games.. There's no shame in that bros

Besides that does not stop ronaldo from being the 2nd highest goal scorer in international football, nor the 6th highest goal scorer overall.. It does not change the fact that ronaldo is the highest goal scorer in ucl, and the second highest goal scorer in la liga(when he left r.madrid his goal difference with messi was roughly 60 despite arriving about 5years after messi scored his first la liga gol and playing in a much more inferior team)

And it does not change the fact that ronaldo has more international trophies than messi, salah, piatek and icardi combined

Fyi, even victor moses has more international trophies than your lord, Lionel Messi.. What a shame indeed!!..

jayson87:
so what you saying is ronaldo had more assist than goals last season. with all this clueless and baseless rants

ronaldo only had 7 assist last season. Paitek scored more goals than Ronaldo. and please dont come to me with his aging shit, the highest goal scorer in serie a last season is older than ronaldo

Now I get where you are coming from.. Piatek only scored nine league goals for ac milan as opposed to ronaldo's 8 assists.. I didnt add the goals he scored while he was at genoa..

But you cant compare ronaldo to piatek, there was reason he won the the best player award in serie A.. And fyi ronaldo missed some league games last season while not being a starter in some of them

OGHENAOGIE:
is Liverpool coach a national team coach are u high with this view

Dont quote me again if you dont understand what I posted please.. Someone said the liverpool coach voted for messi and so I was trynna correct him that klopp could not have voted since voting was meant for national team coaches only..

I hope you get now

jayson87:
Hello Sir, I will say it again, Paitek given the circumstances at AC milan and the number of quality providers which he doesn't enjoy like Ronaldo, was an individually better performer than Ronaldo in all ramifications of comparison last season

Quality providers you say.. Please mention one player in juventus who is among the best in creating goal scoring chances.. Matuidi?? Dybala?? Sandro?? Please try and get your statistics right before arguing blindly.. They said Ronaldo is stingy yet he had the most assist in the juve squad last season.. His number of assists was almost equal to the number of goals scored by piatek last season..

Fyi, the reason why ronaldo did not score many goals last season for juve was because juve was built to defend and there was no player he could actually link up with very well unlike with marcelo at r.madrid

Just take a look at his stats in Portugal ever since Benarndo who is good at creating chances joined them.. Then you will know what am talking about