Messi, THE Greatest.........

enough of this GOAT sh*te.

Diego was and will always be the best.

Messi with added menace , enough said.

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oldbilly wrote:

enough of this GOAT sh*te.

Diego was and will always be the best.

Messi with added menace , enough said.

Messi is so far clear of him I'm afraid. He's been at the top of the game for nearly 15 years. Maradona's peak was roughly half of that. Messi got something like 113 goal contributions in a calendar year.

It's not even a debate, Messi is the best of all time and it's not even close.

SeaSharp wrote:

oldbilly wrote:

enough of this GOAT sh*te.

Diego was and will always be the best.

Messi with added menace , enough said.

Messi is so far clear of him I'm afraid. He's been at the top of the game for nearly 15 years. Maradona's peak was roughly half of that. Messi got something like 113 goal contributions in a calendar year.

It's not even a debate, Messi is the best of all time and it's not even close.

The greatest player of all time is undoubtedly Maradona. I dont care what any stat says or how long someone has played. Maradona could do things others even Messi cpuld only dream about. The End.

Edited by doherty - 18 Dec 2022 at 8:29pm

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Territorial wrote:

BrendanD88 wrote:

Didn't Ronaldo's Portugal draw every game on the way to winning the Euro's?

Your point is ridiculous, Messi had a great World Cup but terrible finishing from Higuain cost Messi and a very average Arentine side winning the WC. (I do agree that James Rodriguez should have got player of the tournament mind)

My point is simple.

Considering their size and resources etc, it is quite an achievement for a country like Portugal to even get into the European top ten. But not only have they achieved that consistently for nearly two decades now, but they've even "turned the dial up to 11" by becoming European champions.

And the real credit for this latter achievement has to be predominantly down to Ronaldo.

By contrast, even without Messi, Argentina have far greater resources, and a history which is much more impressive, inc twice world champions.

Yet with Messi, not only have they failed to become world champions a third time, but they've not even won the Copa, a competition which is MUCH easier to win than the Euros.

Meanwhile, Portugal are currently 5th on the FIFA Rankings, with Argentina behind them in 10th. Indeed Argentina aren't even in the top three (of 12) in South America.

Messi has now won the Copa and the World Cup! Back in your box Terri.

There’s so much recency bias these days in people’s statements I think

And too much talk about goats

Wasn’t necessarily talking about this debate

Messi is the best I’ve seen, I never saw the best of Maradona so can’t compare.

More with people saying such and such is the best game they’ve watched or best World Cup of all time etc

Just because it’s freshest in the memory

They say you get what you deserve and in my opinion Messi got that today.

I remember Maradona playing but too young to really remember how he was. Never has a player made me say 'WOW' more than Messi, and that happens multiple times in every game. For me he is the greatest.

It wasn’t a superb World Cup. It was an average World Cup with some terrible games and some great games, like todays.

It was probably one of the best finals we’ll ever see though.

This Argentina team is the poorest team to win a world cup in my lifetime...

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