Neymar
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BlueMoonz1977
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Said this a while back in an earlier post...We need that one major creative element now to become a complete force. We have an exceptional squad at the minute, but to improve we need to go to the next level. And by buying a player that will one day become the best in the world is the right way to go about.
sam-caddick
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LoveCity said:
He did this in the same match as well.
The guy is a pleasure to watch, maybe not the next Pele but definately the next Ronalinho.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6UdCktASM[/youtube]
MCC
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sam-caddick said:
Outrageous skill!
Stoned Rose
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blink922 said:
Maradonna was a genius but never been in the same league as Pele.
Who are these 'most people' you talk about? They clearly no fuck all about football.
Pele scored 1281 goals in 1363 games.
Pele is the all time leading goalscorer for Brazil (77 in 92)
Pele is the only player ever to have 3 world cup winners medals
In 1999, he was voted Football Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics. In the same year French weekly magazine France Football consulted their former Ballon D'Or winners to elect the Football Player of the Century. Pelé came in first place. In 2000 he was crowned FIFA Player of the Century.
Pele is the best ever and would eat Maradonna and Messi for breakfast at the same fucking time with one arm tied behind his back. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Stoned Rose said:
Might as well count Messi's youth goals and the 1000 goals he's probably scored in training and playing around with his friends, because that's the only way Pele can get to the 1281 goals you quoted.
Pele was a great player and was a big reason for the success of his club and country at the time, but technically Maradona and Messi are superior. Hope I didn't embarrass myself any more with this post!
Getting too off topic now. Back on topic, I'd love to see Neymar here.
blink922 said:
Think it's a generational thing to be honest. For example I've grown up seeing replays of Maradona's goal against England in 86 (not the handball, which as I didn't exist at the time all I think about that is that it was hilarious) and his mad skills while playing for Napoli, yet I was too young to notice his original decline into coke fuelled obesity, so I've got a very rose tinted view of him, whereas all I've seen of Pele is him as an old man and grainy black and white footage. Same goes for all the great European and Brazilian players of the 60's/70's. I've only really seen players of the late 80's and 90's in their prime.
Right now I class Messi as the best in the world because I've seen him consistently make an absolute mockery of opposing defenders and midfielder's for the last 3/4 years and think CRonaldo's a rag prick, yet neither of them are in their prime yet. Point being it's entirely subjective. There is no definite answer to "Who is the best football player of all time" and there wont be a non-subjective answer until we're all dead and gone.
As for Neymar, all I've seen are flashes of absolute beauty and his stupid floppy haircut. But what I have seen is genius, the same kind of genius that I first saw from Messi and (as much as it pains me to say it) CRonaldo. If City could get him it would be madness not to sign him, if only for the commercial aspects alone. He's one of the few 'big money' signing's where it can't really be questioned.