I get that dribbling is fascinating and some kind of eye candy, but in the end dribbling past 9 players like Messi has done or what Son did month ago, is pretty selfish and has nothing to do with the team. If you could pull it off constatly and getting tons of return, then it would make sense but other than that, it's pretty damn selfish to try those since you could easily get past +3 players with a simple pass instead of risking losing the ball. I could count the amount of times some player tried to do little bit too much with the ball, lost it and caused a goal in their own end, it has happened to everyone and it happened to Messi as well, atleast against PSG during the KO stages of Champions League.
People really can't use that selfish factor against Ronaldo when it comes to Messi vs Ronaldo since im pretty sure Ronaldo is way more of a team player than Messi is. Passing the ball on the pitch little bit more often doesn't make you a team player, especially when you're far out of scoring chances. All those other aspects of the game, like being kind to your team m8s, being able to play with anybody and just simply being a better leader, better at motivating your team m8s anywhere you play at, makes you way great team player since it's all about getting the results done and Ronaldo definitely has gotten results done, wherever he has played at. On top of that, im pretty sure Ronaldo gives little more distance covered to the team, he defends all corners taken by the enemies and so on. I'v had the image of Messi being the ultimate team m8 just for his close friends, he has that little circle around him, Alba, Suarez, Pique etc being best mans on his weddings but when it comes to total new players, new team(i.e ARG) etc, it feels like he's nothing but a little bully out there. It feels ridiclous one player have had such an impact on all the player, coach changes etc. as Messi have had. They had those same coaches being part of Barca and Argentina etc, then simply playing his Suarez v2 copy during the NT games from Boca Juniors instead of Aguero, Dybala and such. It just feels somewhat weird for me to like the guy as much i would like to, just because there's definitely something weird around him. It might be the fact that he's such an introvert or it might have something to do that he's narcist as Ronaldo is when it comes to winning the games, but he does it way more selfishly than Ronaldo does, just because where Ronaldo does it on the pitch, Messi does or tries to do it off the pitch.
Messi is definitely talented player and has taken the absolute max out of that body he has, but he isn't nothing but a La Liga GOAT. By judging purely on the football abilities, he's way more close of being the GOAT than result wise, but Ronaldo edges everybody on both aspects and therefore, i think there isn't any discussion for me to be part of atleast when it comes to GOAT status.
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