Before this thread, I thought that the only people who didn't think Ronaldo was one of the top 2 players of this century were twitter bots.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Much Ado About Al Nassr
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Are we talking about all-time or just this century? I don't have a problem with calling him the second best player of this century.
And yet Messi has the most liked photo in social media history. There are a TON of bots on social media.
nah, he’s top 5 all time, but not top 2
Gentlemen, gentlemen. How about we just all agree Messi and CR7 are both completely shite.
Am I missing something? Benzema just joined this window yes? Ronaldo has had half a season to gel with his teammates. Did Benzema even play in the cup?
No, I've seen that type of comment many times before and I find it highly ironic. Also, everyone has bias, there's no such thing as 'neutral'.
Until the average quality of the saudi player becomes good, this development is not sustainable and we will see a lot of comedy stuff like this.
I think the fanatics in both sides would more easily settle for that than admit the other one is good
Yes Benzema did play in same competition, scoring 3 goals in 4 games (finished as 2nd top scorer), but got knocked out in the quarter final. But fair enough he has less time to gel with his teammates.
Your fan-boyism is nauseating.
The feck is this thread still doing on the homepage? Can’t somebody just make it die? Nobody gives a feck about Ronaldo any more and nobody gives a feck about the poxy Saudi league.
This is a statement a can very well agree with. Besides, they are both incredible footballers of course.
It's become Messi v Ronaldo reborn but even worse and even more spiteful
Let it be , some head cases need an outlet.
Good point. And I’ve just realised I can make it disappear by putting the thread on ignore.
Granted I know nothing about the Saudi league (who does?), but I read earlier it’s basically a friendly tournament? There was even a clip of one of the Arab sponsors (I think) referring to it as such. I’m lead to believe they were the best/or one of the best sides in the league before he joined too, so going to one of the top sides in a league of that standard and adding Mane too, it surely shouldn’t be hard to win things?
It’s been good for memes though, with people joking about the fact that the trophy looks like a pound shop World Cup. There was a thing on Facebook before the final saying it might be better for Ronaldo if he didn’t win it to avoid all the mockery and memes regarding the design of the trophy
Anyway, bigging up that final, describing it all as clutch and then cherry picking a bunch of metrics to suit Ronaldo in a GOAT debate did make me roll my eyes a little. Nothing wrong with idolising the guy (unless you’re a United fan seeing as he disrespected the club and fans), but the lengths people still go to in order to elevate his standing in the game is bonkers. Maybe this is where football tribalism is at now though? Maybe it’ll be the exact same with Mbappe and Haaland soon…
Yeah he is deffo top 5, for me he's behind Messi, Pele and Cruyff, and just above Maradona. That's probably the 5 players on 99% of people's top 5, but everyone has a different order.
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My YouTube ended up auto playing a video compilation of all of Ronaldo’s goals for Real Madrid. The video is 1 hour 20 minutes long. He was an insane goal machine. A highlights reel of just his goals is longer than some movies.
Above Maradona? nonsense, the guy took Napoli to the top and won a WC pretty much singlehandedly.
CR7 has longevity but he's not above Maradona IMO.
Quality of his goals are mint too. He not just a great goalscorer. He´s always been a scorer of great goals.
What's the argument for Ronaldo being above Maradona?
What's the argument for Maradona being above Cristiano? He doesn't have a single thing over him except a better performance in the worldcup. Maradona was inferior to Cristiano in:
European football
Domestic football
Prime
Peak (Seven games isn't acceptable size for gauging peak performance)
Longevity
Watching Maradona play is/was magic. It is beyond stats.
CR7 has longevity and success in CL over Maradona. Prime and Peak over Maradona? Seriously? Even Messi himself may not say he is above Maradona on these two.
Im not arguing for ronnie here but Messi has always outwardly had the humbleperson persona and said other people can judge themselves where he is at, but considering he is from Argentina and named Maradona heir from a early age he would never say he was better than Maradona ever.
Well, he's better at playing football.
Some of you guys in this thread are so fecking cringe.
Keep thread on Ronaldo in Saudi, honestly some of you guys have to move on now - you're mewling over two blokes in their mid to late thirties both of whom are effectively now retired.
Yeah but only one of them can be a goat.
Like everyone else I've seen 3 games featuring Maradona and that's enough to tell me he was better than the GOAT.
Pessi and Penaldo have never taken a bucketload of cocaine just before doing forward rolls during a training session.
Good heavens, this has got to be one of the most stupidest posts I’ve seen.
Should make a GOAT thread with a poll and just use it as a fly trap for these posters
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