Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Absolutely right. But not only that. He does the same to Ronaldo. Ronaldo is a superb athlete, and a fine footballer. But he is simply not in the same league as Messi.
One of the reasons why I'm unwilling to accept that Pelé is not the greatest of all time — although Messi is definitely in that conversation — is that the evaluation is distorted by the simple fact that, courtesy of blanket television on a global scale, we've seen one hell of a lot more of everyone since the 1990s than any player previous to that. But more importantly, Pelé has always said that his assists and more generally what he did for the team (whether Brazil or Santos), were at least as important as the goals he scored. That he treasured them as much. And it's true. All his teammates recognised it. It's the same with Leo.
Maradona was an astonishing player. But over a much shorter period.
Mbappé, Ronaldo, and anyone else currently playing the game are pygmies by comparison.
Cruyff, Pelé, Maradona, Messi. They are on the summit of Olympus. There is no-one else.
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Your post highlight one very important attribute of a player in a team sport that are not really mentioned much: the "teamwork". And I don't just mean "teamwork" in tactic, in passing, but also teamwork in the attitude, the mindset.

That's why even though I recognized C.Ronaldo as an elite player with extremely high determination and very professional, there's no chance I'd pick C.Ronaldo over Messi. Just imagine that when you score a goal and then seeing C.Ronaldo complain why you didn't pass it to him (he did that in Real Madrid), or seeing him complain your goal should be his because of his hair touch it. It leaves really irritate feeling.
 
jimharri said:
If he'd truly wanted to join us (doubtful, in my opinion), he'd have tried to force a move through. We were used as a bargaining chip to get more money out of Barca.
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Possibly, before. Not on that occasion, that much is clear.

Would have been nice, mostly this world cup would have been seen through quite different eyes. Wasn't meant to be.
 
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