Lionel Messi’s 4 year, $674M contract with Barcelona officially expires today
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viktordoomsecretwars
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He didn't choke . Objectively speaking, he's the best player to ever put on the Argentinian jersey. He has scored the most goals, made the most assists, has the most appearances for Argentina. Maradona won the World Cup in 1986 but that 1986 team was a much more complete team overall than any Argentian team Messi ever played on.
He took them to the World Cup finals in 2014, a competition where he won the Golden ball in (i.e the best player of the entire competition). If that is "choking", I don't know what is.
They lost to Germany in a very tight match. If Higuain had scored a simple chance in that game, 1 against 1 with the keeper, this silly narrative would have changed.
He's easily the best player to ever kick a football.
That shyt dont matter to clubs. They sign to brands, and they are the ones who benefit
viktordoomsecretwars
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For the Messi and Ronaldo comparisons.
This is how they stack up. These numbers are probably from about 3 month ago so any slight differences are negligable.
For those who aren't knowledgable about soccer, these are Mt Rushmore numbers, made the more impressive that these 2 are doing it at the highest level in the modern era. No player has put up such numbers maybe in the last 50-60 years.
But peep the games played. Messi is both a better goalscorer and better assist man than Ronaldo. He literally does almost everything better than Ronaldo other than jump high and head the ball, but Messi is 5'7.
The comparison between these 2 is almost as poor as the MJ vs Lebron thing. Though not as nonsensical as that as the gap between MJ and Lebron as players is definitely bigger than the gap between Messi and Ronaldo. But nevertheless, Messi is comfortably better than Ronaldo is.
These are just the numbers, as a pure soccer player, without considering numbers, Messi's all round play is vastly superior to Ronaldo's.
That's when you talk about stuff like (key passes, dribbling, chances created, throughballs), he has the whole package. Messi has more assists than any player ever and is the best dribbler in the history of the game.
Not just Messi, there are many footballers throughout history and even several today whose all round ability is greater than Ronaldo's.
But Ronaldo is compared to Messi only because Ronaldo is a goalmachine, that's it.
This is how they stack up. These numbers are probably from about 3 month ago so any slight differences are negligable.
For those who aren't knowledgable about soccer, these are Mt Rushmore numbers, made the more impressive that these 2 are doing it at the highest level in the modern era. No player has put up such numbers maybe in the last 50-60 years.
But peep the games played. Messi is both a better goalscorer and better assist man than Ronaldo. He literally does almost everything better than Ronaldo other than jump high and head the ball, but Messi is 5'7.
The comparison between these 2 is almost as poor as the MJ vs Lebron thing. Though not as nonsensical as that as the gap between MJ and Lebron as players is definitely bigger than the gap between Messi and Ronaldo. But nevertheless, Messi is comfortably better than Ronaldo is.
These are just the numbers, as a pure soccer player, without considering numbers, Messi's all round play is vastly superior to Ronaldo's.
That's when you talk about stuff like (key passes, dribbling, chances created, throughballs), he has the whole package. Messi has more assists than any player ever and is the best dribbler in the history of the game.
Not just Messi, there are many footballers throughout history and even several today whose all round ability is greater than Ronaldo's.
But Ronaldo is compared to Messi only because Ronaldo is a goalmachine, that's it.
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viktordoomsecretwars
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there's Hispanics when I was coming up that related more to the countries their favorite soccer star was on than their own
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IDK shyt about Bol, but Lukaku was looking fukking frigid out there after the PK today
but nikkas was putting him in the same air as some of the best I did recognize, so I figured it was just some bad luck for him
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
So do most sports.. but over here we say "year"
the artist known az
Hail the victors
Isn't the NFL the only one that pays weekly
Godless Socialist CEO
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What's crazier is he's most likely still underpaid
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Neymar aint even the best player on his team
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Lakerman0834
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Can’t be GOAT if you Not even best Argentinian player
Jmare007
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Messi being the "GOAT" is 
He does deserve that money though, he's walking ATM for Barca and has been for at least 15 years for them.
Messi getting that award is laughed at by anyone that knows anything about futbol. Most people just assume he got it because of Adidas
but whatever it was, it was evident he had that award in the bag no matter what happened in the Final, were he didn't do shyt like he does 80% of the time he plays for Argentina.
He does deserve that money though, he's walking ATM for Barca and has been for at least 15 years for them.
Messi getting that award is laughed at by anyone that knows anything about futbol. Most people just assume he got it because of Adidas
but whatever it was, it was evident he had that award in the bag no matter what happened in the Final, were he didn't do shyt like he does 80% of the time he plays for Argentina.