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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    1. One problem with the "Ronaldo is more complete" argument is that it confuses inputs for outputs. Let me explain. It is obviously helpful to have a player who can score well with both feet, from range, with headers, etc. Why? Well it gives the player more ways to score. It makes it harder to...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    Valdes is a good keeper but not world class. However, his strengths are perfect for Barca. He's a particularly good distributor and a particularly good one-on-one shot stopper. A team playing possession football with a really high line requires both of those things more than other teams do. As a...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Agreed. Messi is obviously better than Ronaldinho, though I will say that I personally would rather watch Ronaldinho. Messi is exceptionally efficient, but I do think Ronaldinho is more entertaining
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    There is SOME truth to that statement, though. Messi does just run through opposing team's players, while Ronaldinho used ridiculous tricks and stuff way more than Messi does. The one thing I disagree with here is that Messi running through players takes no technique, because it obviously takes...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I imagine you're probably right, and the quote was manufactured and unwittingly reprinted on other websites. However, if anyone were to say it, it'd be the same guy who also said "Come to my place with your sister and we'll see if I'm gay." He's just such an outrageous human being that I find...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I feel like your post smacks of a bit of arrogant elitism that I want to address. I wouldn't immediately assume your "education" (or age for that matter) is greater than those that disagree with you. I don't know about other people on the forum, but I'm one of the people you're disagreeing with...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I beg to differ. This is the same man who did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFv6kh_rPPA&feature=player_embedded
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    Andrés Iniesta

    I'm American, and you have to understand that baseball is a different sport that lends itself exceptionally well to statistical analysis. It is a team game, but to a large extent, one's individual performance is entirely unrelated to who else is on your team because, when you are at bat, it is...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Ballon_d'Or Epic trolling going on there. It is cycling through various Bulgarian players, saying they have won 3 FIFA Ballon D'ors. Currently it is on Alexander Kovachev; earlier it was Berbatov.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    San Marino has some sort of love affair with Andrea Pirlo. 2 first place votes and a second place for him from the people from that country.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Interesting. And it should be borne in mind that Barcelona scores more total goals than those other players' teams, so there are A LOT more non-Messi goals than non-Ibra/Falcao/Suarez goals.
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    Andrés Iniesta

    I truly value Xavi. He's in my top 20 ever, well above a ton of fantastic goal-scorers, but an ALL TIME GREAT forward will help his team more than Xavi can. We see that now with Messi. It's the nature of the game; it's about goals. And when you have an all-time great striker, it's usually...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    Not giving Ibra a chance is different. Ibra didn't work out because he didn't fit the system. He never would have, so there was no reason to try it for longer. Alexis fits the system; he's just not scoring that much. Again, though, he has only shot like 10 times this season or something...
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    Andrés Iniesta

    I'd say Xavi breaks the top 20. I'm a big fan, but I think it's really hard for a CM to get super high up in these rankings just because there are so many great goalscorers in the past, and goalscorers are just naturally more decisive than a player like Xavi could be. The fact that Xavi has...
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    Andrés Iniesta

    It'd be hard to get him in the top 10: Messi, Maradona, Cruyff, Pele, Beckenbauer, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Platini, Brazilian Ronaldo, Puskas, etc. It'd be hard to get him ahead of those guys. But he DOES have probably like 5 more good years in him, so who knows?
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    Pedro Rodriguez

    Oh I certainly think there's reason to bench him. He pretty much has an undisputed spot in the starting XI now, which I think may not be warranted. Even though I don't think he's playing way worse than before overall, I don't think a forward in a 32 shot goalless drought should still be an...
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    David Villa

    Right, what's your point? You are saying Alexis has no playing value to Barca, so with that logic, they wouldn't be losing anything by selling him. I think other teams think he could have a lot of playing value to them like he did for Udinese, so they would be willing to pay close to what Barca...
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    David Villa

    How much you will "lose" on a player is irrelevant. What you paid for him is a sunk cost and should be entirely ignored when making a future decision on who to buy and sell. What matters, then, is just how much they are worth now. You sort of arbitrarily said you think Barcelona could only get...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    He is always triple marked basically. And he virtually always scores. Just because he is being triple marked in any given match does not mean that the team will say "Oh no, Messi is being triple marked, we better try to make chances for others." They are much more likely to say "The defense is...
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    Alexis Sanchez

    I understand why having your best player rescue you demonstrates "dependency" but that's why I said I didn't consider it dependency that should be a "big concern." The team will have below average matches; every team does. Having Messi rescue the team when this happens is not a problem, it's a...

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