Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

soul24rage

Senior Member
as said several times CR played as midfield player during his Manu time, thats why ppl were so surprised when they watched him in 2008, there was never a midfield player who score 42 goals in a season!!
If CR7 was a midfielder, Messi is a defender :mou:

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Andresito

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Staff member
as said several times CR played as midfield player during his Manu time, thats why ppl were so surprised when they watched him in 2008, there was never a midfield player who score 42 goals in a season!!
At the start of 2008/09 season CR had 105 non-pen goals vs Messi's 45.

So according to you when CR stopped being a "midfielder" (which he wasn't), Messi still surpassed him.
 

Nazario1985

Senior Member
I think we will get him on loan for half the season
to be fit for WC 2026
Rashford will also have a decent season with us for the same reason, after that he will go the bum road again
 

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Basta yaaaaaaa, Cabron ! y Bona nit 🥂
He is not getting enough credit for what he is doing because of the perceived weakness of the league he is in, but what he is doing at 38 is quite extraordinary.

A player so reliant on his dribbling is normally completely finished as a footballer by the age of 33 no matter what league he plays in. The guy is 38 and he is still out there dropping his shoulder, slaloming past defenders and breaking people's ankles like he was when he was 28.

It shouldn't really be possible. I called him out as the GOAT as early as 2009 and even I couldn't have imagined he would age so brilliantly. By all barometers, a penalty box poacher should age far far better than a player reliant on dribbling past players in order to score, due to the vast difference in difficulty between the two.

Ronaldo probably saw these final years as a way to break away from Leo on the statistics front. But Messi has remarkably managed to age better than Ronaldo. He really doesn't get enough credit for how dedicated he has been to his craft and especially how well he has kept himself in shape as he has aged.

Messi looks at least 5 years younger than Ronaldo on a football field today.
 

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