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Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Adakintroy:
Seunmuham:
yes it's subjective. But fact is fact. Messi's better goal rate thrumps everything Ronaldo can present. Even in terms of efficiency
What you mean better goal rates.? Am sure ronaldo fan boys can come up with plenty of ronaldo stats that is better than messi.. its why i say its very debatable. Depend on who you talking to and how well he knows the stats
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Kobicove(m): 5:39pm On Feb 05, 2025
xpressionx:
Where your world cup?
A tree does not make a forest.

The reason why he does not have a world cup is because he was not born into a country that is a football powerhouse
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Marc3500: 5:44pm On Feb 05, 2025
This mumu Ronaldo should rest abeg undecided
Messi,Maradona and R9 are more complete players than him
The werey should accept he isn't the best in history
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Marc3500: 5:44pm On Feb 05, 2025
Kobicove:
A tree does not make a forest.

The reason why he does not have a world cup is because he was not born into a country that is a football powerhouse
excuses undecided
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Jokerman(m): 6:46pm On Feb 05, 2025
Marc3500:
This mumu Ronaldo should rest abeg undecided
Messi,Maradona and R9 are more complete players than him
The werey should accept he isn't the best in history
All these ones sabi use their head or fit use their weak foots pass CR7?
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Bobxin(m): 6:49pm On Feb 05, 2025
He has all the bragging rights.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by DeOTR: 7:55pm On Feb 05, 2025
redcliff:
Hardwork to hardwork, ronaldo trumps him. This is tge only festure that people like about ronaldo more than messi
Define hard work, because I'd rather be a Messi than a Ronaldo if I'm to choose.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Seunmuham:
Adakintroy:
What you mean better goal rates. Am sure ronaldo fan boys can come up with plenty of ronaldo stats that is better than messi.. its why i say its very debatable. Depend on who you talking to and how well he knows the stats
Messi goal rate ( number of game played /number of goals scored) is better. With a 0.78 goal rate is like having a very efficient chip in your system that's sure to give you a higher success rate with lesser energy demand and memory needed. While still keeping your system running smoothly.

While ronaldo is a bad chip, albeit more expensive, requires more energy, memory to operate. But still gives a lower output, thereby dragging the whole system down. You can see it in very team he plays. He literally becomes a load, tanks the team with his needed heat sink. Little wonder bale hates him, almost killed Benzema career Rooney hates him, the young lads at man u hate him, his Portuguese teammates barely tolerate him.

Sure he has some stats more than messi, but his fan boys are afraid to throw them around because they know it's mostly superficial, no depth, nothing. Only has to do with goals. There's more to football than goals, still he failed against messi.

Messi is something else, Messi came to enjoy football until Ronaldo decided to compete, than messi destroyed the competition.
It can never get more savage than this
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by thesicilian: 8:35pm On Feb 05, 2025
boxypane:
Where him World Cup Trophy?
What an amazing argument! I guess by your logic someone like Olivier Giroud or Ngolo Kanye should be rated well above all time greats like Samuel Eto, Jay Jay Okocha, Didier Drogba, Steven Gerrard, Zico, Paulo Maldini, Michel Platini and the "god" himself Zlatan Ibrahimovic grin never who won a world cup.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by patrickcollins: 8:45pm On Feb 05, 2025
Daniel7543:
Ronaldo is the only G.O.A.T
Any other goat na goat meat.
With no world cup trophy, all the legends he mentioned have a world cup trophy to their names
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Adakintroy: 10:13pm On Feb 05, 2025
Seunmuham:
Messi goal rate ( number of game played /number of goals scored) is better. With a 0.78 goal rate is like having a very efficient chip in your system that's sure to give you a higher success rate with lesser energy demand and memory needed. While still keeping your system running smoothly.

While ronaldo is a bad chip, albeit more expensive, requires more energy, memory to operate. But still gives a lower output, thereby dragging the whole system down. You can see it in very team he plays. He literally becomes a load, tanks the team with his needed heat sink. Little wonder bale hates him, almost killed Benzema career Rooney hates him, the young lads at man u hate him, his Portuguese teammates barely tolerate him.

Sure he has some stats more than messi, but he's fan boys are afraid to throw them around because they know it's most superficial, no depth, nothing. Only has to do with goals. There's more to football than goals, still he failed against messi.

Messi is something else, Messi came to enjoy football until Ronaldo decided to compete, than messi destroyed the competition.
It can never get more savage than this
The way you talk about ronaldo just show your baise. Key language is always respect. You just played down on him easy. I can say messi is the best while also acknowledging ronaldo greatness. Two things cam be true at once. it takes a special kind of player to win a ballotde or with messi at the peak of his powers. Not once not twice not trice. If you cant respect him i dont know how or when you will. Its not on performance for you just base of on i dont like him. I can understand. But thats not a football lover who know difficulty of the game thinks
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Seunmuham: 10:32pm On Feb 05, 2025
Adakintroy:
The way you talk about ronaldo just show your baise. Key language is always respect. You just played down on him easy. I can say messi is the best while also acknowledging ronaldo greatness. Two things cam be true at once. it takes a special kind of player to win a ballotde or with messi at the peak of his powers. Not once not twice not trice. If you cant respect him i dont know how or when you will. Its not on performance for you just base of on i dont like him. I can understand. But thats not a football lover who know difficulty of the game thinks
Ok I'll try to respect him
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Godsonkemz(m): 10:46pm On Feb 05, 2025
Why's C Ronaldo always obsessed with comparing himself to Messi while Messi has no time for such an unhealthy comparison.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Moskido: 1:50am On Feb 06, 2025
JoshOxborn:
Before the WC, Messi was an embarrassment in the UCL and in big games.
Na human being dey talk dis one so?? grin grin
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Formation10: 4:40am On Feb 06, 2025
OluwaJohn77:
You are the most complete player and MESSI is the BEST player ever exist on planet Earth.... Simple
He said it already that it is taste ,Messi is your taste but can't be others taste period
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by boxypane: 8:32am On Feb 06, 2025
thesicilian:
What an amazing argument! I guess by your logic someone like Olivier Giroud or Ngolo Kanye should be rated well above all time greats like Samuel Eto, Jay Jay Okocha, Didier Drogba, Steven Gerrard, Zico, Paulo Maldini, Michel Platini and the "god" himself Zlatan Ibrahimovic grin never who won a world cup.
We are talking about Messi(The GOAT) and Ronaldo. Let's keep it on these two.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by thesicilian: 12:09pm On Feb 06, 2025
boxypane:
We are talking about Messi(The GOAT) and Ronaldo. Let's keep it on these two.
Unfortunately I'm a busy person bro. I'll take a rain check.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by RolandSport: 12:24pm On Feb 06, 2025
Ororo baba! I remembered during his time a Man Utd then, we use to call him Gogogongo (which means Adam's Apple in Yoruba), because he has a very protruding one. He used to cry on the pitch like a baby if they lost in finals or important games that time. Reaching his peak at Madrid, El classico beefs with Messi and Barca, and winning Ballon d'Or multiple times is another interesting phase of his career.

Congrats to Ronaldo. 40 and still banging goals is no small feat. Man has come a long way.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by OluwaJohn77: 1:51pm On Feb 06, 2025
Formation10:
He said it already that it is taste ,Messi is your taste but can't be others taste period
Let Him win World Cup First.
Messi, Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo(R9), Zidane, Ronaldinho has World Cup.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Yankiss(m): 5:31pm On Feb 06, 2025
dapadawee:
You don't hear Messi speak because he can't speak English he even spent 20 years in Spain yet he can't speak Spanish. Something Ronaldo can do.

Messi never dared what Ronaldo did. CR7 went to Spain where Messi was a king and competed against him winning the champions league 3 consecutive times no club ever won it back to back.
Ronaldo won almost all the Golden boot award while he was in Spain.
Without the world cup, CR7 is still below Messi. Messi is 2 years younger than CR7. Imagine Messi doing two more years, while CR7 bows out today, every edge CR7 holds would be behind by light years.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by dapadawee(m): 6:28pm On Feb 06, 2025
Yankiss:
Without the world cup, CR7 is still below Messi. Messi is 2 years younger than CR7. Imagine Messi doing two more years, while CR7 bows out today, every edge CR7 holds would be behind by light years.
I hear.
Ronaldo will play until he is 50
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Yankiss(m): 9:37pm On Feb 06, 2025
dapadawee:
I hear.
Ronaldo will play until he is 50
Wow. He can until 100, he can never equal Messi's records. That's the bitter truth. Watch him play and watch Messi play. One is natural. The other tries everything in the book with all muscle and fibre in him to equal the real GOAT.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by dapadawee(m): 7:34am On Feb 07, 2025
Yankiss:
Wow. He can until 100, he can never equal Messi's records. That's the bitter truth. Watch him play and watch Messi play. One is natural. The other tries everything in the book with all muscle and fibre in him to equal the real GOAT.
Are you angry because of his physical strength. He worked for it. He deserves it. And he has a laurel for it
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Questionnairae: 10:18pm On Feb 07, 2025
Facts.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Kennyfancy(m): 9:57pm On Mar 12, 2025
FreeSpirited:
Ordinary leg-over Messi can't do....,u are here saying Ronaldo can't play corner,...are u nuts or something....is it someone that can curve free kick into the net that u are saying can't play simple corner? U must be really dumb I guess
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Ordinary heading , Messi is a very poor header of the ball....how many skills does Messi have, except speed and cutting people left and right....
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Ronaldo is more complete..period.... how well can Messi use his right feet? Oga rest.... football is more than running and Cutting left and right
more World best and more world cup
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by AgroBizSolution(f): 12:02am On Mar 13, 2025
I agree that they are both complete footballer... No hassles, no fight about who the GOAT is🤷
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by optimusprime2(m): 11:00am On Mar 13, 2025
I totally agree... Messi indeed is beautiful to watch, but CR7 is an absolute monster of a complete player that's why the numbers show it.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by optimusprime2(m):
Seunmuham:
Messi goal rate ( number of game played /number of goals scored) is better. With a 0.78 goal rate is like having a very efficient chip in your system that's sure to give you a higher success rate with lesser energy demand and memory needed. While still keeping your system running smoothly.

While ronaldo is a bad chip, albeit more expensive, requires more energy, memory to operate. But still gives a lower output, thereby dragging the whole system down. You can see it in very team he plays. He literally becomes a load, tanks the team with his needed heat sink. Little wonder bale hates him, almost killed Benzema career Rooney hates him, the young lads at man u hate him, his Portuguese teammates barely tolerate him.

Sure he has some stats more than messi, but his fan boys are afraid to throw them around because they know it's mostly superficial, no depth, nothing. Only has to do with goals. There's more to football than goals, still he failed against messi.

Messi is something else, Messi came to enjoy football until Ronaldo decided to compete, than messi destroyed the competition.
It can never get more savage than this
I am sorry I quoted your whole post...
You are partially right but also partially wrong...

Why? because a part of CR7's game people always forget ... I repeat "People always Forget" are his assist numbers ... the top 10 players with assists ever in the Game, CR7 is right there.

Now for the highest goal scorer ever to have those assist numbers speaks about an aspect of his game.


FYI for 4 straight seasons Karim Benzema missed the most chances when CR7 provided assists that had high XG's ... the stats are there to be seen. Had it been Benzema was like a Suarez, CR7's numbers would have been right up there close to Messi... we are talking about a goal scorer here. FYI Luis Suarez is a big contributor to Messi's assist numbers, because he was clinical in Front of goal.

There are many aspects of CR7's games that are also not appreciated, like having a very low offside ratio despite his high offense.

Bro analyse CR7 well and you'd see he is criminally underrated.

I would conclude by saying no matter how you look at it, both of them broke football... Messi is good yes! But CR7 ... please and please give him his flowers, he is actually the most complete footballer to have graced the game.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Seunmuham: 2:20pm On Mar 16, 2025
optimusprime2:
I am sorry I quoted your whole post...
You are partially right but also partially wrong...

Why? because a part of CR7's game people always forget ... I repeat "People always Forget" are his assist numbers ... the top 10 players with assists ever in the Game, CR7 is right there.

Now for the highest goal scorer ever to have those assist numbers speaks about an aspect of his game.


FYI for 4 straight seasons Karim Benzema missed the most chances when CR7 provided assists that had high XG's ... the stats are there to be seen. Had it been Benzema was like a Suarez, CR7's numbers would have been right up there close to Messi... we are talking about a goal scorer here. FYI Luis Suarez is a big contributor to Messi's assist numbers, because he was clinical in Front of goal.

There are many aspects of CR7's games that are also not appreciated, like having a very low offside ratio despite his high offense.

Bro analyse CR7 well and you'd see he is criminally underrated.

I would conclude by saying no matter how you look at it, both of them broke football... Messi is good yes! But CR7 ... please and please give him his flowers, he is actually the most complete footballer to have graced the game.
As I would like to agree with you on certain point, I disagree with you on cr7 being criminally underrated. I feel the opposite is the case. And also on being the most complete player, he isn't far from erling haaland.

Even the stat you try to throw are all goal stats
Like I said football is more than goals. Can't you see how lamar is a beauty to watch
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Habib101: 8:07pm On Apr 12, 2025
Talking about overall skills I think he is right you know.
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo: Lionel Messi Is Great, But I'm Most Complete by Belurved1(m): 8:40pm On May 17, 2025
Ronaldo and Messi are great players but they are record chasers as well.

Other great players would have achieved their records but they prefered to play along with team and not chasing individual's record.

I hope the new Golden boy for Barcelona will not follow their step. He would have scored more goals than Messi for the first season but chose to have more assist passes than Messi.

That's what makes football interesting.

Thank God that Messi and Ronaldo era has gone.
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