Lionel Messi Thread

R&B Milan · Apr 7, 2012

Overrated not the best ever whatsoever. Zidane,R9,Pele and Maradona are better than him.
Put him in the period when Zidane,R9,Figo etc were playing im sure he would not have won a Ballon d'Or.

Fiero · Apr 21, 2012

'Best player in history' :lol:

Kalac#16 · Apr 21, 2012

Fiero · Apr 24, 2012

Hi choker. I'm sorry I mean the 'best player in history'. :lol:

Thanks for the pen! :thumbsup:

Mr. Milanista · Apr 24, 2012

at every dumb shit calling him the best in history.

Sonny.Bill.Williams · Apr 24, 2012

WILL2K · Apr 24, 2012

Given his record against Chelsea, I knew there was a good chance that he will miss that penalty. Far from the best player in history let alone in the last 20 years.

Sod-Lod · Apr 26, 2012

MilanDiavolo News ‏ @MilanDiavolo
"Messi and his friends" will play a friendly against "Mexico Stars" at Mexico this 16th of June. Robinho & Yepes will play with him.

necromancer · May 9, 2012

Royston Drenthe: "I played against Messi many times and we always have problems with each other"

Royston Drenthe: "You know what bothers me so? That tone with which Messi always calls me 'negro, negro'"

Royston Drenthe: "I understand that negro in South America is very common, but we can not stand it. "

via @101greatgoals

Whoa whoa whoa. Has Messi just been Suarezed?

jammin · May 9, 2012

finally! something even mildly controversial about this super boring guy! :tongue:

VultureNut · May 9, 2012

Drenthe playing anti-football provoked it. #Messiisinnocent

GreatKalu · May 9, 2012

True story ...

Sod-Lod · Dec 9, 2012

Ashish · Dec 9, 2012

holy shit this is something else :eek:

hands down the best player since zidane retired :eek:

he will end up with best record :eek:

i dont like him but he is awesome

badboybjörn · Dec 9, 2012

Ashish said:
holy shit this is something else

hands down the best player since zidane retired he will end up with best record

i dont like him but he is awesome

+1

I dont care for him either. But cant deny he is by far the best player around and most likely will remain so for quite some time. Silly record tho considering they did not even play the close to the same amount of games.

MilanMB · Dec 9, 2012

Sod-Lod said:

watch five of his goals and you've seen them all... boring cunt.

i wish i could like him. but no...

Sage · Dec 9, 2012

MilanMB said:
watch five of his goals and you've seen them all... boring cunt.

i wish i could like him. but no...

I honestly think he doesn't give a shit.

Mr. Milanista · Dec 9, 2012

Got to say, watching that video made me realize goalkeepers in Spain suck dick.

Got to point out also, Müller didn't have Xavi and Iniesta. (I'm not serious)

Jivara · Dec 9, 2012

Remarkable

Who is better Messi or Ronaldo Phenomeno?

Gio · Dec 9, 2012

Acerbi said:
Remarkable

Who is better Messi or Ronaldo Phenomeno?

Ronaldo at the top of his game was better, Messi has/will achieve more. (except maybe a World Cup or world cup goals, who knows?)

benjamin · Dec 9, 2012

Just look at his first goal tonight, the defenders suck balls so bad, it's no wonder he can break all sorts of record.

Sage · Dec 10, 2012

benjamin said:
Just look at his first goal tonight, the defenders suck balls so bad, it's no wonder he can break all sorts of record.

did you watch putzini's goal? :lol:

at least messi had to use a burst of pace to get by them, putzini was pretty much invited to score on them

Sven · Dec 10, 2012

He scored at the same rate in Champions League.

And even for the "can only perform with Xaviniesta brigade", he also scored 12 in 9 games with Argentina.

I don't like the guy either, but it's stubbornness try to downplay him.

Christian · Dec 10, 2012

Giova21 said:
Ronaldo at the top of his game was better, Messi has/will achieve more. (except maybe a World Cup or world cup goals, who knows?)

Ronaldo was never as good as Messi currently is. Ronaldo has the World Cup, that's it... it's important in terms of legacy, but if you just look at how they play, then Messi is head and toes above Ronaldo. I think anyone who disagrees are looking through rose-tinted glasses.

Monsieur · Dec 10, 2012

I saw some interesting facts on Dr. Rossoneri on fb:

Muller scored his Germany goals in the course of winning the EURO's at 1972 .. while Messi scored 12 goals for Argentina in 2012, more than half of them (7 goals to be precise) were in friendly matches! 3 goals were against Brazil's Olympic team for God's
sake!

MULLER scored his 85 goals in 1972 while winning EURO's & Bundesliga .. He achieved the TOP scorer in that year for EURO, Bundesliga, & CL.

Messi needed 6 more matches to beat those 85 goals (those are extra 540 minutes!!!), while playing friendlies & achieving 2nd place in La Liga!

Gio · Dec 10, 2012

Christian said:
Ronaldo was never as good as Messi currently is. Ronaldo has the World Cup, that's it... it's important in terms of legacy, but if you just look at how they play, then Messi is head and toes above Ronaldo. I think anyone who disagrees are looking through rose-tinted glasses.

Are you kidding? The way he tore through defenders like a hot knife through butter on a regular occasion? Getting the ball from deep and running past them... regularly... he used both feet as well and seemed to be psychic with the ball, it's kinda hard to put into words just how good he was. I still don't think Messi has reached his level for what he was capable of, he had more dimensions to his game than Messi in my opinion.

Ashish · Dec 10, 2012

Giova21 said:
Are you kidding? The way he tore through defenders like a hot knife through butter on a regular occasion? Getting the ball from deep and running past them... regularly... he used both feet as well and seemed to be psychic with the ball, it's kinda hard to put into words just how good he was. I still don't think Messi has reached his level for what he was capable of, he had more dimensions to his game than Messi in my opinion.

i agree ronaldo at his peak was better than anything .. he toyed with italian defenders of 90s :eek:

lol look at that list

but in messis career messi will achieve more then again thats all matter I guess

oh well other than world cup and number of goals in world cup

nuttela · Dec 10, 2012

I'll never see another player as exciting as ronaldo again

Messi is a gift. But Ronaldo made everyone dream

Christian · Dec 10, 2012

Giova21 said:
Are you kidding? The way he tore through defenders like a hot knife through butter on a regular occasion? Getting the ball from deep and running past them... regularly... he used both feet as well and seemed to be psychic with the ball, it's kinda hard to put into words just how good he was. I still don't think Messi has reached his level for what he was capable of, he had more dimensions to his game than Messi in my opinion.

Sounds more like Messi than Ronaldo in the two seasons where he wasn't fat or injured. Ronaldo was a great player, but mostly a great goal scorer. Messi combines the goal scoring ability of Ronaldo (Actually he's a greater goalscorer obviously), with the playmaking ability of Rui Costa... he basicly creates as many chances as some of the greatest 10's in the game. So I don't think there's any way your last sentence is true. Ronaldo was first and foremost a goalscorer... Messi is waaaaay more complete as a footballer.

Gio · Dec 10, 2012

Christian said:
Sounds more like Messi than Ronaldo in the two seasons where he wasn't fat or injured. Ronaldo was a great player, but mostly a great goal scorer. Messi combines the goal scoring ability of Ronaldo (Actually he's a greater goalscorer obviously), with the playmaking ability of Rui Costa... he basicly creates as many chances as some of the greatest 10's in the game. So I don't think there's any way your last sentence is true. Ronaldo was first and foremost a goalscorer... Messi is waaaaay more complete as a footballer.

I guess my bias is down to this mindset:

de nuttela said:
I'll never see another player as exciting as ronaldo again

Messi is a gift. But Ronaldo made everyone dream

Couldn't have put it better myself. Your (Christian) rose tinted comment earlier is one to consider but I still think Ronaldo's talents were superior even if Messi can probably create more clear cut chances for teammates than Ronaldo could (more because he focusses on that and because Ronaldo was mostly employed as an out and out striker). Ronaldo could sprint and keep the ball in complete control (far better than Messi does) yet he looked so comfortable doing it, he was mesmerising, like Savicevic meets Usain Bolt. It's why everyone fell in love with Kaka - he had a similar (but nowhere near as effective) style of running at full speed through the heart of defences and unleashing a piledriver of a shot at the end.

Like Ashish said - if the likes of Nesta, Maldini, Costacurta, Cannavaro, Thuram etc had trouble with him... then yeah.

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