RedRonaldo
Wishes to be oppressed.
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This actually aligns with my description regarding R9 dribbling/skills/ball control, so I am not sure what you are actually trying to argue against my points there. I get that you rate those higher than anything else, and I personally think its ok for people to rate those highly as this could be the reason people fall in love with football.I know you put much effort into stuff like this but in all honesty, I don't think there's much value in spread sheets like this. For me the only informational value it provides is that from the description you gave I derive that you seem to have a few misconceptions about R9. There's for instance no chance CR7 has skill moves over him since R9 was far better than him at that, same goes for creativity. And he was much more of a all action attacker than Cristiano. In Serie A games he at times barely entered the box and played much from midfield and winger positions. Or received the ball in the air up front, controlled him and directly went on devastating runs. He also scored 4 or 5 free kicks at Inter which is pretty good 1.5 seasons. I can only recommend watching the video I posted above since you seem to have a not so accurate image of him, probably shaped by his later years.
As for all action attacker, what I mean is, Cristiano has more weapons in his pockets during his peak, he can shoot with his left or right, from either angles too, and he can shoot long range screamer, can score long range knuckleball freekicks at impossible ball trajectory, can dribble/run with tricks in the final third from deep midfield/wings and shoot too (I know R9 does it better), can also out jumped the tallest defender and headed the ball powerfully towards goal too, these are what I meant "all action", not just being devastating in running and dribbling in high speed as in solo manner in linear sense.
As for creativity, what I mean is "creating chances", and what you meant maybe leaning towards "creating something out of nothing", so we might have different meaning there. For all your high praising of R9 Inter time, he only provided 4 assists over his whole season at his peak. And no, its not just numbers, he is just a brilliant individualist who is mostly focusing on his own solo games, but not actually bothering creating chances for others.