Has he done it in 3 leagues really? Ronaldo gets outscored by a 36 year old Quagliarela and Immobile without Kroos and Modric and hasn't looked close to winning the champions league with Juventus, being dumped out by Ajax and Lyon. Zlatan is scoring a goal every 52 minutes in that league and he's 39.
06. He was a bench warmer for most of that CL campaign. Ronaldinho was the main man and the one who guided them to the title.
I never implied R9 had a better club career, I just said that he could have easily replicated CR7 and Messi's stats had he had a supporting cast like they had.
Quagliarella might have scored more, but he also played more games.
Meanwhile, Messi has failed to win it.
Quagliarela had a better goal to game and goal to minute ratio while playing for Sampdoria, at the age of 36.
So it's been two seasons since both Xavi and Iniesta have left and in those two years Messi has been top goalscorer and top assister in the league twice, top goalscorer in the CL and won the Ballon d'or, all while being the wrong side of 30.
Let's not preted Luiz Ronaldo played for some mid-level teams, Barca won La Liga with ease the season he left mostly with the same players.
No, R9 did not play for some mid level teams, but the Barca from his era was nowhere near as good as the one Messi had. And he netted roughly 1 goal per game in the first and only season he was there, 47 goals in 49 matches. By comparison, the man who replaced him, Rivaldo (who was a world class player himself) barely scored half of that.
Cristiano & Messi both had better than 1 goal per game records for mainly years that we're discussing. Before you go on about the defending in La Liga, take a look at their records in the CL, especially Cristiano's.
Salah became Liverpool’s top CL goalscorer with 28 ours is RVN with 35. Ronaldo has 67 in the Ko stage alone but La liga is crap or something like that. Sure look at La liga record in Europe over the last 10 years, sure Seville have a better record against English sides than they do against them. This forum has a weird obsession with PL being miles ahead of any league.
Yes, cause their teams were a million times better than the opposition.
Both have been comfortably better than him specially if were focusing in club career only, until very recently the ballon d' or would only go to one of them in the last decade. Their consistency and level of dominance has been absurd someone like Di Stéfano has a better case of arguing he had a better club career but I never saw him play to be honest and what I remember from R9 as a Real Madrid player it doesn't come close to neither what Messi and Cristiano have done and achieved.
Being better is all about peak form, not consistency and/or longevity. So the correct thing to say is: both have been greater than him at club level. And I never argued otherwise, my point all along is that he could have matched their stats had he been in their shoes.
Rivaldo was never a striker though, so comparing his goal stats and Ronaldo's is apples and organes comparison.
I know this is a really old quote.
I know you’ve put UK - but really not the best example given Scotland and England don’t play in the same league
