Recent content by Raul Madrid

  1. Lionel Messi - Performances

    Giorno, obviously, the only Madrid poster that was commenting in the thread before you made your post and who it seemed pretty clear you were referring to, or did you just randomly decide to post "Madrid fans cannot be objective when it comes to Messi and are always trying to undermine his...
  2. Lionel Messi - Performances

    He is being more objective than Barcelona fans are when it comes to Ronaldo.
  3. Manchester City under Pep Guardiola | Pep on City v Liverpool ref: "He likes to be special"

    With Barcelona's defenders, people have dismissed them with comments like "it is easy to defend when you are playing in a team that dominates most games". It is true that they do not have to defend as much as defenders do in a lot of other teams, but a lot of the time, once the opposition gets...
  4. Manchester City under Pep Guardiola | Pep on City v Liverpool ref: "He likes to be special"

    Lots of people did. They were/are very underrated.
  5. Ballon d'Or 2016

    I thought Suárez should have won.
  6. Ballon d'Or 2016

    It is the vast majority that consider him better though. I agree that all our opinions count and we are entitled to think whoever we want is the best, but most of the time, if not all of the time, you cannot prove that one player is factually better overall than another, for different reasons...
  7. Ballon d'Or 2016

    There absolutely is. I have lost count of the number of quotes from notable people who have called Messi better and the best of all time. Ferguson is one of the few who backs Ronaldo over Messi and Messi has more individual awards too, which were awarded to him because the consensus amongst the...
  8. Ballon d'Or 2016

    Of course there is a consensus, and there is definitely a consensus that Messi is the best player of the last decade. He is considered as one of the very best ever (ie top 3-4). The people that consider Ronaldo better than Messi at his best are a minority. That is not true that in Spain that...
  9. Ballon d'Or 2016

    Nobody expects you to change your mind, that is not the point of discussions on here, but finding out what the consensus is on who is considered better is worth much more than us just repeating over and over again that one was better than the other and comparing them, even though they play in...
  10. Ballon d'Or 2016

    Discussions like this are subjective. We are not discussing science. Ronaldo has convinced the majority that he has been the best player in the world more times than Zidane did, even though Ronaldo was up against Messi. That says something (context has to be applied of course, which I did in my...
  11. Ballon d'Or 2016

    :lol:
  12. Ballon d'Or 2016

    You have a funny memory if you think Zidane dominated every game that year. That was a season where people said that Zidane won it because of his popularity and reputation and his consistency was questioned. Henry, Ronaldo, Nedved and Shevchenko were at a similar level that year, and plenty of...
  13. Ballon d'Or 2016

    It definitely was. 60 goals and 15 assists. It took an all-time, historic record-breaking year from Messi to beat him to the Balon D'or. It was undoubtedly better. What did Zidane offer over the course of an entire season that came close to that? Try not to give the usual "look beyond the goals"...
  14. Ballon d'Or 2016

    Ronaldo has contributed far, far more on the pitch than Zidane and has broken lots of records. Why should I not talk about goals when it comes to Ronaldo, when it is something he an all-time great at? It would be ridiculous of me to leave them out. Ronaldo's 11-12 is also better than any of...