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It's pretty awesome that we have a player right now who compares favourably to Maradona. Growing up I'm not sure I ever thought that would happen, especially when I grew up watching someone as brilliant as Zidane, and even he doesn't quite seem to be in the same echelons as Maradona and Pele.

It's hard for me to judge accurately without really seeing Maradona live, but I'd be surprised if he was as good as Messi has been for such a sustained period of time. He's been absolutely breathtaking for about five years, and then had a bit of an average (for his standards) 12 months.
 
It's pretty awesome that we have a player right now who compares favourably to Maradona. Growing up I'm not sure I ever thought that would happen, especially when I grew up watching someone as brilliant as Zidane, and even he doesn't quite seem to be in the same echelons as Maradona and Pele.

It's hard for me to judge accurately without really seeing Maradona live, but I'd be surprised if he was as good as Messi has been for such a sustained period of time. He's been absolutely breathtaking for about five years, and then had a bit of an average (for his standards) 12 months.
Here we have the latest example of your johnny come lately football fan. Everything nowadays is te best because it's all I've seen. Messi isn't fit to lace maradonas boots.

The bloke is f***ing 50 man.

Messi is the best I've seen but he's only one player and Germany are a great team, Maradonna was a cheating little shit
A World Cup winner and the second best footballer who ever lived. Get over it.
 
Here we have the latest example of your johnny come lately football fan. Everything nowadays is te best because it's all I've seen. Messi isn't fit to lace maradonas boots.

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You've either completely misread my post, or you're a daft/ignorant shit. I'm going for the latter right now.

Or you could be one of those 'back in my day' nostalgic deluded types, I guess.
 
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You've either completely misread my post, or you're a daft/ignorant shit. I'm going for the latter right now.

Or you could be one of those 'back in my day' nostalgic deluded types, I guess.
Sorry but you're the one who never saw maradona live and yet have made sweeping statements about his ability. My delusion is basing an opinion on seeing all of the top players over the last 40 odd years either in the stadium or live on TV.

As yet messi has done nothing to bear comparison with pele or maradona
 
It's pretty awesome that we have a player right now who compares favourably to Maradona. Growing up I'm not sure I ever thought that would happen, especially when I grew up watching someone as brilliant as Zidane, and even he doesn't quite seem to be in the same echelons as Maradona and Pele.

It's hard for me to judge accurately without really seeing Maradona live, but I'd be surprised if he was as good as Messi has been for such a sustained period of time. He's been absolutely breathtaking for about five years, and then had a bit of an average (for his standards) 12 months.

Maradona was before my time, but it seems as though the Argentinians almost unanimously to a man regard Maradona as the better player, so he must have been absolutely fantastic.
 
Sorry but you're the one who never saw maradona live and yet have made sweeping statements about his ability. My delusion is basing an opinion on seeing all of the top players over the last 40 odd years either in the stadium or live on TV.

As yet messi has done nothing to bear comparison with pele or maradona

I haven't made any sweeping statements, stop making things up.

And saying he's done 'nothing' suggests you're not the most impartial person to be having this debate.

Maradona was before my time, but it seems as though the Argentinians almost unanimously to a man regard Maradona as the better player, so he must have been absolutely fantastic.

He's regarded by many as one of the two best players ever to have played the game. I'm sure he was absolutely fantastic.

Maradona has done for Argentina than Messi to this date though, so perhaps not surprising they regard him as the better of the two? I'm sure there are many Sunderland players who we regard better than others on the back of their records for us.
 
Sorry but you're the one who never saw maradona live and yet have made sweeping statements about his ability. My delusion is basing an opinion on seeing all of the top players over the last 40 odd years either in the stadium or live on TV.

As yet messi has done nothing to bear comparison with pele or maradona


How many times did you watch maradona live for a full 90 minutes?

Those saying maradona won the Italian league single handed will be lucky to have watched one single game:lol:

Some absolute deluded ' back in my day's individuals posting on here today :lol:

Not this again.

The modern game is set up for the likes of Messi

Hardly any physical contact, pitches are far better, nutrition is better, coaching and fitness is better , even the balls are designed to fly through the air better.

No one had a bigger microscope on him than Maradona.

What are you waffling on about??

The scrutiny I am talking about is that if you wish anybody on this planet could watch Messi and Ronaldo play at least 50 times a season live. Thats every game these players play, every second every minute to be poured over with endless replays from endless angles. Every moment of magic, every fuck up scrutinized by formers players and armchair experts throughout the world

The olden day player never had to put up with that scrutiny, vast majority championing Maradona, Pele etc would be lucky to have seen them play more than 15 times live uninterrupted. You could have watched Messi and Ronaldo 200+ games plus the last 4 year if you wished

You would think the great players of the past never had a bad game if you read some of the nonsense on here.

If the games of Pele and Maradona came under the same scrutiny the games of Messi and Ronaldo do now both these olden day greats games would have came under the same criticism the likes of Messi and Ronaldo do now
 
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