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This Messi kid is still quite good, eh?

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LeTallecWiz

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Today's brace against Valencia moved him into the top 4 all time scorers in Europe ...

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Lionel Messi has more goals (49) and more assists (29) than any other player in 2016:

Games: 50
Goals: 49
Assists: 29
Trophies: 3
 
I think it was last year or the year before that I finally conceeded that he is better than Maradona, who I think the world considered/considers to be the best ever.
My biggest complaint/issue was that while Maradona took a team (Napoli) that had never won the league or come close to doing that to the promised land, Messi has been spoiled with top class attacking players like Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, Etoo, Henry, Villa, Zlatan, Suarez, Neymar etc. in Barcelona,

Another problem is that he hasn't brought home a Copa America or a World cup title to Argentina.
Something Maradona has.

Tough having a world cup win as the one thing remaining.

Still, he's the best player I've ever seen.
 
I think it was last year or the year before that I finally conceeded that he is better than Maradona, who I think the world considered/considers to be the best ever.
My biggest complaint/issue was that while Maradona took a team (Napoli) that had never won the league or come close to doing that to the promised land, Messi has been spoiled with top class attacking players like Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, Etoo, Henry, Villa, Zlatan, Suarez, Neymar etc. in Barcelona,

Another problem is that he hasn't brought home a Copa America or a World cup title to Argentina.
Something Maradona has.

Tough having a world cup win as the one thing remaining.

Still, he's the best player I've ever seen.

I think maradona had that insatiable drive to be the best, a suarez like tenacity. whereas for messi it all seems to come so naturally.
Perhaps he needed to slum it away from la masia in his formative years to really appreciate the dirtier side to the game. Perhaps then he would know what it means to drag a team to success kicking and screaming like maradona did

(then again the 86 argentina squad wasn't really shite was it)
 
I think maradona had that insatiable drive to be the best, a suarez like tenacity. whereas for messi it all seems to come so naturally.
Perhaps he needed to slum it away from la masia in his formative years to really appreciate the dirtier side to the game. Perhaps then he would know what it means to drag a team to success kicking and screaming like maradona did

(then again the 86 argentina squad wasn't really shite was it)
It wasn't shit but it wasn't exactly Spain 2010.
 
From what I've read France were the big favourites. Germany had a good team.
Again, you're not wrong. But it's hardly Leicester winning the league level surprise at the time
 
Again, you're not wrong. But it's hardly Leicester winning the league level surprise at the time
I'm not saying that you're wrong. With Argentina the talk before the tournament was about how far Maradona was going to be able to take them and he fucking surprised the world.
 
True. Compare it to the Argentina team of now where people expect Messi to do stuff but doesn't really deliver
 
I remember feeling sorry for Jimmy Greaves that time his hat blew off his head when he was on the ferry with Ian St John.
 
Today's brace against Valencia moved him into the top 4 all time scorers in Europe ...

CvYoLlnWcAEuxkE.jpg


Lionel Messi has more goals (49) and more assists (29) than any other player in 2016:

Games: 50
Goals: 49
Assists: 29
Trophies: 3
Ahead of Gerd Muller on gpg, one of the greatest out and out goal poacher/strikers ... wow. I thought Suarez had the most goals in 2016 though ? I must be wrong.
 
I think it was last year or the year before that I finally conceeded that he is better than Maradona, who I think the world considered/considers to be the best ever.
My biggest complaint/issue was that while Maradona took a team (Napoli) that had never won the league or come close to doing that to the promised land, Messi has been spoiled with top class attacking players like Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, Etoo, Henry, Villa, Zlatan, Suarez, Neymar etc. in Barcelona,

Another problem is that he hasn't brought home a Copa America or a World cup title to Argentina.
Something Maradona has.

Tough having a world cup win as the one thing remaining.

Still, he's the best player I've ever seen.
Well you can only drag a team like Napoli to success if you played for a team like Napoli. It's to Messi's good fortune he hasn't .. but that doesn't mean to say he couldn't (drag an inferior team to a title), Suarez nearly did.

That Argentina side would blow the current one away. It's an unfair comparison.

Maradona is also a fat, lying, cheating, drug-addicted piece of trash.
 
Those messi stats are wrong. Suarez has outscored him in 2016. Both In league goals and all comps . #fanboy
 
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