Messi "best player of all time"

[Blue 1]

Messi has never had to face the likes of the Butcher of Bilbao (I cannot spell his real name )

Andoni Goikoetxea. Reportedly kept the boot he broke Maradona's ankle with in a glass case as a "souvenir".

Agree about Maradona. An absolute magician. Best I've ever seen.

 

[davek]

In between Stoichkov level and Platini level, for me.

Played with some great players like Iniesta, Xavi, etc who provided the base for him to do his thing.

A great player, but only a daft millennial with zero grasp of history of would ever describe him as "greatest of all time".

 

[Goat]

Steroid abusing little midget.

 

[pedro1976]

Messi has scored in Champions League finals. Or does that not matter? Hard to keep up with all the rules people use to deny the obvious.

Yep Messi has indeed scored in a champions league final and played in teams that included the likes of Iniesta, Xavi, puyol, alba, neymar, busquets, David villa, abidal, eto, yaya toure, Thierry Henry


Tell me the notable players in the napoli slide that maradona played in?

Are you going enough to have seen maradona?

 

[BillBrasky]

For a "world class" player who has an enormous amount of HGH flowing throw his veins you'd expect more

 

[pedro1976]

Quite simply maradona was 40 years ahead of his time..... football isn't even at the level he was at yet.

Messi is brilliant.... absolutely brilliant. Maradona in his prime was an absolute freak..... he played on pitches that were bobbly, against defenders that would like to and get away with breaking bones.....

In this day and age, on the pitches we have, the modern football and it's flight and the non contact sport it's become maradona would be untouchable

 

[Steve0]

I do love the revisionism of the Maradona cultists.

Firstly none of them acknowledge he was a probable drug cheat throughout his career but that's for another day.

But you'd get the impression he played in literal swamps and defenders were basically allowed to be armed and hammer attacks to the face were allowed.

Maradona played in an era of small weak unfit defenders who ate oranges and smoked 20 Marlboro on the half time break.

 

[kenada_blue]

Steroid abusing little midget.

Must have left the steds at home last night

 

[Dorf]

Can't do it when it matters. Fraud!

 

[DanB90]

Quality footballer
Complete shithouse.

 

[Billysgingham.]

Not in the top 5 struggling to get in my top ten.

 

[davek]

Maradona will go down in history as a football God.

Messi will go down in history as a nice little player.


In reality, out of today's game, only Cristiano Ronaldo would even get a foot in the room that contains El Diego, Pele, Cruyff.

 

[JammyP]

He is not George Best

 

[marsh]

Walks about too much

 

[pedro1976]

I do love the revisionism of the Maradona cultists.

Firstly none of them acknowledge he was a probable drug cheat throughout his career but that's for another day.

But you'd get the impression he played in literal swamps and defenders were basically allowed to be armed and hammer attacks to the face were allowed.

Maradona played in an era of small weak unfit defenders who ate oranges and smoked 20 Marlboro on the half time break.

Are you old enough to have watched maradona?

Personally I was 10 years old..... I thought he was incredible.... that 86 world cup he was a one man team. Never seen anyone since that get anywhere close to that level.

Cocaine is hardly a performance enhancing drug... not on a football pitch. You would get more out of caffeine, coke would likely induce a heart attack. His ephedrine use for weight loss in 94 granted..... yeah that stuff does work.... I used an ECA stack in the 90's- basically like speed.

But at his peak in 86.... no one to touch him.

You could argue Zidane above Messi for the same reasons people argue Messi above maradona.... for me Messi is above Zidane but not close to Diego