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Ejimagifty:
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Arrant nonsense. If Ronaldo had scored an hat trick again tonight to remove Ajax all those bonucci, mandzukic blab would not have come up. You Ronaldo asslickers would have been shouting goat, ororo all over the thread as if football is a one man sport. Now he has been humbled you remember there are people playing defense. Did you people praise benardeschi that assisted Ronaldo and won the final penalty against athletico? No it was ororo this, ororo that. I'm so glad the over hyped buffoon has been humbled and eliminated. Majority of Man U fans would have migrated to Juve to lick his ass had he qualified after their loss at camp nou. As it stays we will rest from you Ronaldo fan boys and watch entertaining football. I don't care who wins it (Champions league). My joy is that Ronaldo and Man U were removed same time

SHUT UP!!!

CR7 has been carrying the team's attack. How many people expected Juventus to get through against ATH after the 2:0 loss in Madrid.

Everyone in Turin accepted the comeback was a perfect game. A miracle.

No Chiellini. No Mandzukic. Bonucci is a show of himself. No Costa. No Cuadrado. Dybala is out of form. Cancelo is out of form. Moise Kean who Allegri changed in had not started any UCL game all season and did not play throughout the first half of the season.

Still, Ronaldo scored both goals. He made two chance plays in the second half alone. And the game ended with a single goal deficit from a corner.

If you guys want to troll CR7 and us who are his fans. Go ahead. Na una turn. It's football, not war.

But use your brain! This is not remotely the same Juve side that told Messi's Barca team in 2016/2017 that even if they give them 90 extra minutes they wouldn't score a goal.

CR7 would be back next year. He's used to the league and the team now. A new coach is coming in the summer. Midfield and defense will be reinforced. No biggie!

-Lord

ominilongest:
One thing I know for sure is both Ronaldo and juventus missed each Other badly.....
For how many seasons now Ronaldo Don dey collect highest goal scorer In the champions league make e give Messi chance too e no easy
We will come back strong next season
Team cr7
Original GOAT

I think you mean Real Madrid.

They did not miss each other. RM was complete nonsense this year, CR7+Messi+Neymar for no change their season. Juventus luck na say Italian teams dey defense-centric. If you place them in English, Spanish, even French league (I mean this year) where end to end game is the norm; they'd struggle to qualify for champions league.

Juventus needs a new orientation. The Allegri era is over. Even if they sign Mbappe, De Bruyne and a WC CB, they'd still play like a Division 2 team under Allegri.

-Lord

PythonAmaka:
Ronaldo plastic fan
Ronsldo was a ghost in Madrid until Bale came in to win Madrid the Champions league.


-python amaka

Continue trolling. Na una turn!

I'd have done the same if Juve went through and Barca didn't.

No hard feelings. Na Messi get Ballon D'Or this year, except Man City wins the CL.

Next year, we try again.

-Lord

guywitzerogal:
D way Madrid will b looking at Juventus after 112 million euros

They got their money's worth.

Take away CR7's goals and they'd have been out since RO16.

Most of you fuming here don't watch Juve's matches in the league. The point gap is flattering. Juventus has played only two good games all season. MU first leg. And ATH second leg. All other games have been a sh*tshow.

This year, Juventus has been abject. Watching them play even against mid table teams is like watching paint dry. Hopefully Allegri gets the sack. He has done his best for the club, but he can't offer anything better.

-Lord

COOL10:
Juventus have been dominating Italy and doing very well in the UCL even before Ronaldo arrived. So anybody blaming Juve players apart from Ronaldo is obviously very biased and doesn't know shiit about football.

Stop typing nonsense.

What do you mean by doing well? Juventus have been scrapping by in UCL heavily relying on defensive solidity to go through.

This year, their defense has been crap. Bonucci is a shadow of his former self. Benatia and Barzagli don't make the bench even. And in the two legs of this tie Chiellini didn't start.

This tie ended 3:2 in favor of Ajax. Ronaldo scored both Juventus goals. Juve were unlucky for the first two Ajax goals.

And let's not talk about Dybala. 25+ goals last year, less than 10 this year. Mandzukic not available. Costa, not available. CR7 carried the attack on his shoulder and if the defense was vintage Juve, they'd have held their own.

So unless you follow Juventus throughout this season, shut your trap!

-Lord

usbcable:
I heard the UCL final is in Madrid?

ATM is off next up is Barca

Yes. I suppose it's at the Metropolitano (ATM stadium).

I didn't expect Barca to go out to Lyon at the Camp Nou. It's a common theme in the last 3 years. Messi performs in the RO16 (remember Chelsea), then disappears in the QF; so it'd be interesting to see if they can break the QF curse.

That said, I have high hopes for Zidane. I don't think our current roster is as bad as it's been made out to be. We've got a healthy mixture of experience and youth, and with the right strike force and game plan we can pick ourselves up next year. Still, it's easier said than done.

-Lord

ReeLoaDead:
That was an obscene gesture by CR7 after the final whistle.

It was to mock Simeone.

-Lord

100 million!

MTSCHEEWWW!!!

GOAT!

-Lord

GOAT!

-Lord

@Miremoses1, usbcable; this is it.

Now all that matters is who's bought and sold in the summer. That's all that matters. Zidane make sure you squeeze tight on that old man's scrotum.

Welcome back black magic!

-Lord

Miremoses1:
Some sections of the crowd were shouting "florentino, dimisión(resign) last night.

Papa P really f**ked us all in the anus when he refused to sign a replacement for Ronaldo and decided to place his full trust in his son Benzema.

That chant plus Solari's refusal to resign is music to my ears.

Some perez stans are saying the old man will go all out this summer. I'm not convinced.

Nothing he does will surprise me.

#PerezOut

-Lord

monerozi5590:
Solari should be blamed for not rotating..

God help us in Jesus name... Amen.

#PerezOut!

Make I open gate for all the cules for the all-night party. @femiti na u hold key. Give @miremoses when party finish.

-Lord

theoneJabulani:
All this Ronaldo fans calling themselves madridstas. In Ronaldo's 9 years, Madrid only won the league twice, the record breaking 2012 season and the 2017. The fewest number of points separating Madrid and Barcelona was 3, in 2010 and 2016. In the remaining season's, Real were blown away and sometimes finishing in 3rd place. Ronaldo's goals while abundant was still not enough to end Barcelona dominance in the league. The remaining Frontline didn't deliver their fair share of goals. After Zidane was brought in, he saw the situation and conditioned Ronaldo to deliver his best in the UCL. Its the reason why Zidane says he enjoyed the league title won in 2017 more than his UCL titles. A lot of things took place that prompted Ronaldo's transfer to Juventus, things we fans cannot see from the outside. So I won't blame Perez for allowing Ronaldo to leave but I will blame him for somehow believing that Ronaldo's 50 goals per season will magically come from Bale and Benzema. Well, he is only human, he made a gamble and it failed. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes.,

Point difference in 2014/2015 was 2
Point difference in 2015/2016 was 1

So I don't know why I should even spend any more time replying you.

Here's the bottom line. Ronaldo was ageing, he didn't play CdR games anymore, and played only half the number of games in the league. We were already talking about a post-Ronaldo / post-galactico future and had already started making plans. It was supposed to be gradual as CR7 still had 2 or 3 good years left.

Remember that Vicinius was not meant to break into the first team this year. Benzema's replacement was long overdue. Yet with all of that, the silly old man let CR7 go and did not buy a decent striker. Instead he went to get Mariano, while Benz and injury-prone Bale led the attack; now he's talking about Brahim. That's not a mistake or a gamble, it is f**lishness.

If it wasn't for Zidane and CR7, our last 5 years would have been a complete sh*tshow. Perez is out of his depth; and until he makes way I don't give a sh*t what happens to the club. I strongly detest him, not because of CR7, but for his never-ending pile of bad decisions. For example, Santi Solari is not a terrible coach. But because he isn't getting any results even though he's fielding a toothless attack relying on an 18-yr old youngster in his first year in Spain, he's already talking about replacing him with a Mourinho who is infamous for not being strong on building young talent. Same young talent he's betting the entire club's future on.

That guy should be in a hospice not running the biggest club in the world. Buy WC players, he'd say no money; okay buy youngsters and hire a coach for the long-term to develop them; he'd say no patience because you have an ageing, has-been group of former achievers who are way past their best before date. What the f*ck does he want? In what planet does he think Benzema can lead an attack to win a treble? In what planet does he think Bale can carry RM on his shoulder single handedly? In what planet does he think youngsters would just slip into the all-white shirt and start winning trophies immediately?

Perez is just as delusional as the so-called "real" madridistas who have a brown nose from kissing his a$$ too many times.

-Lord

andrew444:
Agreed

But why would Madrid expecting solari to win the champions league ?

That one 2 much o

Because they don't want to go trophyless in a season where Barca might potentially win the treble.

-Lord

andrew444:
Allegri don try o

Make juventus fans cool down

Juventus lost 3 finals to Spanish giants

2 to Madrid and 1 to Barca .

Juventus fans are like other big club fans'. They want to win everything every year. Can't blame them.

If Barca crashes out in the QF again, Barca fans will not remember winning the domestic double two years in a row. If Solari doesn't win the UCL, he'd be shown the door even though little about the underperformance is his fault.

Juventus has been leaking goals like Madrid, having no shots on target with the best goal scorer in the history of the game leading the attack, and having their hearts in their mouths trying to defend a one goal lead against teams that are far more inferior to them. At a point, it is safe to say, we're tired. Let's have a change of scenery.

-Lord

andrew444:
Sorry bro ,please try to be sincere

Jordi alba is better than Alex Sandro as far as this season is concerned

Joao cancelo is not the best right back in Europe ,even if you got love for juventus be sincere

Joao cancelo have not been even better than Kyle walker this season or even Joshua kimmich.

I said 2 of the best. I did not say the 2 best.

-Lord

lilbest4:
eyea poor Juve. Ronaldo came in just in time to help them win the 8th league title in a row. What would Juve have done if not for Ronaldo

Are you done?

I was expecting you to tell me how Allegri's Juve is playing amazing Pep-level football and CR7 is not able to score because he's washed up. Dude is the highest goal scorer and top assister in the team. Who is spoon feeding who?

All these Perez fans with myopia. At least Juve are not ending the season trophyless, they've still got Ronaldo, and they have the option to get a new coach. Madrid right now looks like it needs to torn down completely and built up again from the scratch which means no trophies for at least the next 2 years.

-Lord

andrew444:
I agree with everything you said .

Don't write them off from the champions league sha ,thou it's hard to overturn the first leg defeat from atletico Madrid .

I'm not writing them off, but I'm not expecting them to start playing fluid, attractive football suddenly in March when they haven't done so all season long against any decent opposition. That's like the Man U board expecting Mourinho to change until they gave him the boot.

Ronaldo would have to pull a Wolfsburg and Dybala+Chiellini would have to pull a Barca for them to advance. Anything other than that and #AllegriOut would start trending immediately the final whistle is blown.

-Lord

andrew444:
You make sense sha .

Come cool down o see as you call my Barca the shittest Barca team ever ,na wa for you o

You know Barca always win Madrid so don't come and give an excuse bro ,Cr7 never stopped Barca from winning Madrid

But we all know juventus will always win the league with or without Cr7

Una sef know say the Barca team no gel.

Imagine if Messi showed up in both recent classicos, the scoreline for give Perez cardiac arrest. Barca no join again na. At CR7's peak, na 1 point, 2 points nai Barca dey tk win league; now in March difference na 12 points. Even as bad as last year, Barca had to almost go unbeaten to justify the huge points gap. This year, you guys are losing and drawing matches, yet the point gap is widening.

And you sef know say CR7 stopped Barca from winning Madrid many times.

Juventus will always win the league, but not with 16 points gap in March. Last year, they almost lost it to Napoli.

Juventus has been breaking league records since CR7 joined. The thing is that it was supposed to reflect in Europe as well, but it hasn't, not necessarily because of players but because of playing style.

-Lord

Corrosiveman:
........
Ronaldo misses madrid spoonfeeding.......You say juventus under Allegri does not play attacking football what about when Vidal,Pirlo and others were there didnt they play attacking football?....If madrid gets someone who is a goal poacher like Ronaldo there problem would be solved but Ronaldo may not have players who creates Chances like Madrid

I don't have the time to debate with you.

Simply watch Juventus next league match.

I'd give you the latest instance where CR7 had to shout at Allegri in their last derby against Napoli. Half time they were 2 up away and 16 points up. Rather than use the remaining 45 minutes to slaughter Napoli, they sat back invited pressure, conceded a goal, got lucky with a penalty miss; and at 2:1, Ronaldo found that he was the only one pressing while all the other players were just sitting back waiting for the clock to count down.

Ronaldo gestured to his teammates and then turned to Allegri and shouted "Mister!"

The greatest player to ever play the game does not need to be spoon fed, just don't play like all you have to do is turn up and voila you've won the match.

Go to all the Juventini sites, Allegri's time is up. There's no justification for not being able to blow away relegation teams when you have a front 5 choice of CR7, Dybala, Mandzukic, Costa, and Fede. Even if a mid of Pjanic, Bentacur, Khedira, Can, and Matuidi is not the best in Europe, it is still good enough to outplay every Italian team, yet every league match is a struggle.

Even if you have a sh*t midfield, boycott the midfield like Enrique did with Barca in 2015. He had an ageing midfield, so he skipped them and made the gameplan all about the MSN and the wing backs. Bonucci is an amazing ball distributor, Cancelo and Sandro are two of the best wing backs in Europe at the moment. Dybala, CR7, and Mandzukic are a terrifying front 3; and Costa is the ideal super sub.

Seriously, give Pocc this same Juventus team and they'll run rampage. Not sit back, no passing triangles, can't even withstand a press. How do you win games when it takes 4 passes to move the ball from one wing to the other.

As for Madrid, even when CR7 was around, everyone knew we needed an efficient striker. We were always complaining about Benzema's misses and how he was the reason CR7 and other Madrid players had fewer assists. So you can imagine my disgust when CR7 was sold and Perez still chose to keep Benzema as the top 9.

That's not just arrogance, it's stupidity. If Madrid needed a striker even when CR7 was around, how do we not need a WC striker when CR7 is not around.

-Lord

lilbest4:
Perez is the best Administrator in the whole world football. There's only one problem with being on top, you don't have anywhere else to go except down. Perez is planning complete overhaul of the current Madrid team because they've won it all so they are no longer serious.
Real miss Ronaldo's goals Ronaldo too miss Real players' spoonfeeeding. I hope you know that Ronaldo is at the verge of crashing out of UCL with only goal for the first time in many years

Ronaldo does not miss Real players' spoonfeeding. Juventus under Allegri do not play attacking football.

If Zidane, Pep, even Klopp takes charge of this same Juve team, results will be different. Even at that in the league, they're leading with 16 points after going down to the wire last year.

Oh and about the UCL, it's also the first year Ronaldo had a red card. And btw in his first year at Madrid, he also crashed out in the RO16 by Lyon with a star-studded side behind him. Mourinho replaced Pellegrini and the CR7-Madrid-UCL love story started.

You know what I love about Perez fans, it's the delusion. Start of the year, Benz, Bale, Asensio, and Isco were going to step up and pitch in with goals. You guys were going to win the treble with young talent and thanks to a roster of 8 Balon D'Or nominees. Now it is that your football pops wants to overhaul the team. Same sh*t he'd been promising since 2016. With what btw? Youngsters from South America. Yet he's changing coaches like diapers while expecting young talent to give immediate success.

The season is about to end trophyless with 12 points behind the sh*ttiest Barca team in forever, yet Ronaldo who already has a league trophy in the bag since December is somehow the rallying point. Bunch of jokers.

-Lord

usbcable:
We will eventually likely have to do what was done 2009.
But not with Solari.
Dont even know what to say again.

Why bother yourself about what to say.

Na siddon look mode I dey. Let the so-called "experts" run the club as they deem fit.

If they like they buy WC players during the summer. If they like they keep Benz as the main striker until he's 40. Na their problem be that.

-Lord

Olamyyde:
Let him prove himself in roma now...shebi he is the goat. Maradona proved himself in napoli.

At least he downgraded from RM to Juventus. Moreover, he has gone to Juventus to win the UCL. And Maradona went to Napoli because his fight with Bilbao players right under the nose of the Spanish King made him a pariah amongst top clubs in Europe, else he like R9, Ronaldinho, Zidane and Ronaldo would have gone to a big name Italian club.

Messi should downgrade as well. No one is asking him to go to Everton or Lille. If he likes tho' he can go and try to be like Maradona to make a point.

Your MCM can't step out of his comfort zone for 18 years, and you have the chutzpah to decide where another GOAT contender should go for a challenge. You guys should check the calendar, it's no longer 2011. The Messi bandwagon has steered off the road.

-Lord

If he says otherwise, he'd lose his job. Until Messi retires, Messi is Barca, Barca is Messi. Putin be taking cues from Messi on how to be a strongman.

-Lord

randomperson:
Please point to where I said Barcelona was not a big team before Messi.

Maradona, Cruyff and co played for barca before Messi but how many ucls and LA liga titles did they win for the club... You're basically helping me to prove my point... Barcelona has had so many great players but none had as much success as Messi. Proving once and for all that it's not about the club, it's about d player....

And there's no tradition that says good players have to move from one club to another.... 90 percent of players whether good, bad and ugly and transfer from club to another...

it's not a fucking tradition

in fact, if all legends need to transfer to build their legacy, Messi has done it without needing to transfer... That's what is called being a boss

Oga did Maradona and Cryuff spend 18 years at the club?

randomperson: "90 percent of players whether good, bad, and ugly transfer from [one] club to another."
randomperson: Legends transferring from one club to another "is not a f*cking tradition."

It is always a good idea to proofread your post before hitting submit. It'd stop you from contradicting yourself in an embarrassing fashion.

In any case, I don tok finish. The way I see it you can't continue this discussion without making gaffes. It's not your fault you don't have a good defense. Argument for the sake of it is just needless time wasting.

Au revoir...

-Lord

randomperson:
This is plain idiocy... You're making conjectures on Messi's reasons for staying in barca and all you can think of is reserved lifestyle?? But it never crossed your mind that loyalty to a club that paid for his treatment could be his reason for staying at that club

If Messi wanted the easy path, he would have gone to man city, and made three times what he's making in Barcelona, win trophies galore while benefiting from d unequalled coverage and sponsorships the EPL enjoys

Messi left his home country at 12 years of age and had d psychological strength to play so well that he graduated into Barca's first team at a very young age

But one self- acclaimed lord on nairaland wants us to believe that Messi always makes d easy choice

Oga, I used the word "maybe." Comprehension shouldn't be difficult for you. Dude has been at Barca for 18 years. 18 years pikin don dey Uni.

He could have left anytime in the last 6 years and EVERYONE at Barca would have understood why. It'd hurt, but most wouldn't hold it against him.

Messi is a generational talent, he would have graduated into any European first team at "a very young age." Luckily for him, it was Barca, the best club for his specific abilities.

Do you know how rare it is for a generational talent to leave his home country at 12 and go to the best club on the planet for his abilities? It's like Ronaldo leaving Portugal at 12 and heading directly to Castilla (Real Madrid).

Messi has paid his dues at Barcelona. Ronaldo didn't even do half of what Messi has done for Barcelona at Manchester United, yet every away game for Ronaldo at Old Trafford is like a lunar eclipse.

Anyway I don yarn finish with you. Make I carry my load go wia I 4 come from.

ClintonNzedimma:
lol... lord himself...i wanted to argue with you but when I saw 'a coach not named mourinho', I laughed and embarrassed myself in public...but leave Messi alone, upon everything, he doesn't reply critics in the media but in the field

Mk una no quickly forget say na Messi fanbase dey always go on the attack before. Just one page when Pele and CR7 (and Ballon D'Or ) open on top Messi chapter, una start dey fidget like who epilepsy do. So if Pele b dey target Messi steady like he b dey mark Maradona for over 2 decades, how e for b?

Anyway una don dey acclimatize to the whole idea of GOAT contenders must always find something to tok... Una don dey mature. Good for una. CR7 fans have been dealing with this since 2009, even 2007 join sef. E no get wetin anybody fit tok wen dey touch us again. As for replying critics on the field, why do you think Blatter apologized to CR7? I doubt say any Messi performance fit make Pele apologize sha, dude strong head too much.

-Lord

9itewolf:
so this journalist no dey ask messi
question... y ihm never call name?

That 1 na ICANN question for Messi to answer.

As I've repeatedly said, mk una no dey reason diz guys comments.

Pele say Messi get only 1 foot, all Messi YouTube channels start dey do compilation of goals wen Messi don score with right leg. Like are you guys that insecure.

Pele in 2012, Messi better than Ronaldo: Messi fans; YAAASSS!
Pele in 2014 n 2017, Ronaldo better than Messi: CR7 fans; MTSCHEEEWWW!
Pele in 2018, Messi a one-trick player: Messi fans; Pele is a FRAUD!

Una go react tire sha, because everybody don c Messi fans finish.

-Lord

randomperson:
The best players don't always go to the best teams... Sometimes they improve the profile of their teams. Case in point? Messi

When Messi became Barca's main player, they had two champions league titles... Now they have five

Messi has won by 9 la liga titles with barca in 13 years... The preceding 9 la liga titles before that were amassed in 45 years...

So it's players like Ronaldo that change teams to win more titles... Some people are better than that

Oga Barcelona was always a big team before Messi. It'd remain a big team after Messi retires.

Maradona, Cryuff, R9, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo all played for Barcelona before Messi. The first four of those names are in the top 10 best footballers in history and were the best of their respective generations.

I don't think it's fair to Barcelona's history to say Messi increased the profile of the club. Sure he'd lead the Barca legend chart for a very long time but this is no Maradona "Napoli" profile increase.

Messi would make history in any club, or at least that's what his talent suggests. Staying in Barcelona throughout his career is not wrong and I'm sure no one in Catalonia is complaining, but that's simply not what legends who ascribe to the GOAT status do. It's not just about Ronaldo, it's about virtually every other legend who ascribed to GOAT status, from the other usual 3 suspects to other names from Zidane to even Van Basten (who played for only two big teams btw).

You guys should stop reacting as though this is not a tradition in football.

-Lord

randomperson:
With all due respect, this comment is absolute trash

Messi only playing in barca doesn't reduce his status... He is playing in the best league in the world against the best teams in Real Madrid and Atletico and as at last reckoning has been d highest goal scorer in both derbies

LA liga has produced more ballon d or winners than any other league, and most ballon d or nominees during Messi's career have been from LA liga... And yet has won the LA liga best player so many times now, the award night is a mere formality...

Pele played in a Brazil team that won d world cup without his help, Maradona was in barca and never won champions league, Ronaldo has moved to a dead rubber league and is still dragging boss status with d likes of Mandzukic.

But you're coming here to say you're absolutely sure as if you're omniscient

Typical Barca fan. Call what you disagree with trash, then proceed to type a missive that's way worse.

Pele in his heydays was not allowed to play for a foreign team by the Brazilian government.

Maradona was at his peak at Napoli and took them to their first ever Italian title. That's why Southern Italians will forever regard him as the GOAT. In spite of being a midfielder who didn't score much, it was Hamsik who recently broke his goalscoring record in 2017.

CR7 has the most goals and assists at Juventus. And he left for Juventus to win the UCL, that's the yardstick by which his stay will be measured. Not winning a domestic double, not even getting to the UCL final, but winning it. That's the challenge. A damn impossible one at 33 fresh off a B2B2B UCL win.

Compared to these three GOATs, you have Messi staying in Barca when at least one team in each of the top 5 leagues can afford him, through perhaps the best period of Barcelona's history for over 18 years, and you expect everyone to whistle by like he simply can't do more.

Messi + current Napoli team + Ancelotti will give Juventus a run for their money in the league.

Messi + any current top 4 English team + Any coach not named Mourinho will mount a formidable challenge for the UCL.

In fact, Messi + any top European team + any decent coach can theoretically win a treble. He has the ability. Everyone knows that. Dude just wants it easy maybe due to his reserved lifestyle; not everyone is a fan of that. You guys can keep making excuses for him or engaging in humorless whataboutism, but the "what if" question will never go away.

-Lord

femiti:
always trying hard to sound intelligent.

Sogunlaye ni

No b my fault say e no dey hard u to sound unintelligent.

Na Peak Milk say "it's in you."

MJBOLT:

Lord of foolishness is here

I say make I visit una.

-Lord

Taguchi:
dem dey feel insecure about their football legacy

so Pele go talk about scoring headers

and c boy go talk about stupid challenge as if he didn't play in the richest and most dominant clubs in the countries he went to. the boy even mention national team join

and Maradona will say leo goes to the toilet 20 times b4 a match like wtf

they should all be ashamed of themselves because person wey dem dey talk never get time to reply any of them even once.

All these comments mean nothing. Na una dey carry am 4 head like gala.

They're only marketing themselves. Pele still makes a rumored 30m per year. Maradona was paid 10,000 pounds per day by FIFA to be at the 2018 World Cup. CR7 has repeatedly said after he retires, he'd still use his celebrity status to push his businesses.

All na hustlin'. Messi na clickbait. If Trump was in football, them go still use am get newspaper headlines.

-Lord

Sommyroy10:
"I don't see what's so wrong with this, but if I were to take it seriously, I would say if Messi missed Ronaldo or needed him, he would follow him to serie A, or move to any other club to prove something, not stay in his club and keep performing like a God.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with staying at your club, this whole "accept the challenge" argument came to life because of Messi, before that it was regarded as loyalty and players like Totti were massively praised because of it.

This here sounds pretty tongue in cheek anyway."
"Copied.

The point is that of all the 4 GOAT contenders, he's the only one to have played in one team all his life. If he was just an average exciting player, no one would give a sh*t. To whom much is given, much is expected.

Messi could play blindfolded in Barca and still win the Pichichi and at least one trophy.

That's why it's funny when you guys complain that the football world no longer recognizes Messi's genius because of his consistency. Dude is compared to Pele, Maradona, and CR7. What he's doing is what's expected of a legend of his status that has played in the same team since he was 13. Dude should do more based on his status.

Messi is not competing with Griezmann, Hazard, Salah, Neymar, Modric who'd be forgotten in 10 years time. Dude is competing against legends with eternal GOAT status.

I'm very sure if Maradona, Pele, CR7, R9, Cryuff, or Zidane played in the same Argentina team Messi played in, either of them would have at least one International trophy. If they played in the same Barcelona team for the same time period, they'd have as many trophies.

There's nothing wrong in staying at one club. But Messi is not just any player. If that's what he wants to do though, as CR7 said we all respect it. But don't make it seem like the request is ridiculous.

-Lord