People watched Ronaldo weekly for years, he didn't play in the 50s.
What do you mean we barely saw Ronaldo, was able to watch a lot of his games for Barcelona and his spell in Italy was heavily covered by Channel 4.
I said 'by comparison' - please don't use selective reading. And I absolutely stick by it, you legitimately and quite easily could of watched almost every single Haaland goal from Salzburg onwards and get access to endless FULL 90 minute matches of his at every level.
There simply, the in the UK at least, a big football market, was not that level of access in the mid 90's to I dunno, well let's just say 2000. PSV full matches on regularity? Yeah right... Barcalona full matches every week? No...all their european and cup games? Nope. Every Brazil match in it's entirely? Eh no. Highlights at the absolute best for a 50% of this, and even some of them would been purely the goals at times. The Welsh highlight show 'Sgorio' was better than almost anything English channels would give you. Unless you were genuinely searching and tape trading for this stuff, like I said, by comparison.
This isn't specifically aimed to anyone in particular and here in general so don't take it as so, but I'd dare say a lot of casual fans claiming this comparison is well off have probably already seen more actual gametime minutes Haaland was on the pitch for at age 22 than they have for Ronaldo in his WHOLE career without actually realizing this.
I also prefer 22 year old Ronaldo to him.... but again, I don't think this is some massive insult comparison. They (and Mbappe) and ludicrious performers from the 18-22 years.