forgiveness:
Pele worked for all his goals. No bi one person wey dem dey feed pass for Barcelona tap in we dey here oooo.

Ancient of days that saw Pele working for all his goals I hail ooooh

Muani should watch Ramires chip goal against Barcelona..

The audacity to pull that in a game in which Chelsea was under immense pressure plus one man down..

That goal against Valdes still remain Goated.

donstan18:

I no watch Pele, you no watch am.

Ibime will bring Pele, you’ll cry and run.
I’ll bring Ronaldo, you’ll cry and run to Pele.

Kindly state what Messi got over Ronaldo in UCL and I’ll state what Ronaldo over Messi in World Cup.

You dey abi you didn’t dey?

Both of them met in the UCL final, Messi won the trophy with a scintillating goal.

the way Brazilians are angry we got Andrey for £20m you will think the money will reach everybody,them like money pass my Igbo brothers, anyways welcome Santos, can't stand jorginho in that Midfield anymore

Ballzproblem2:
the way Brazilians are angry we got Andrey for £20m you will think the money will reach everybody,them like money pass my Igbo brothers, anyways welcome Santos, can't stand jorginho in that Midfield anymore

I am yet to know the guy’s actual position, is it CM, LM, CDM or box to box type?

hensben:
I am yet to know the guy’s actual position, is it CM, LM, CDM or box to box type?

box to box/DM,the guy energy is unmatched,just imagine Kante Brazil version,can stop counter attacks

agreed,but he won't get lot of hype cause he isn't from England

music to my ears

Barca eating L's , waiting for fools to come and call it fake news

Expert17:
*Lionel Messi ranks joint-fourth all-time for World Cup goals, level with Just Fontaine (13) and behind only Gerd Muller (14), Ronaldo (15) and Miroslav Klose (16).

* Lionel Messi is the only player ever to score in all five rounds of the World Cup (group stage, last 16, quarter-final, semi-final, final).

* Lionel Messi has made the most all-time World Cup assists, level with Pele (.

* Lionel Messi is the only player to assist goals at four and five different World Cup tournaments.

* Lionel Messi ranks first all-time for World Cup goal contributions (21).

* Lionel Messi has won the most matches in the World Cup as a player, level with Miroslav Klose (19).

* Lionel Messi has scored in the most different World Cup matches, level with Miroslav Klose (11).

* Lionel Messi is the only player to ever win two World Cup Golden Balls.

* Lionel Messi is the oldest player to win the World Cup Golden Ball (35 years, 178 days).

* Lionel Messi holds the record for the longest period between a player’s first and most recent World Cup goals (16 years and 183 days).

* Lionel Messi is the only player to score a World Cup goal in his teens, 20s and 30s.

* Lionel Messi has won the most man of the match awards at World Cups with 11, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (7) and Arjen Robben (6). He also has the most man of the match awards at one tournament (5 in 2022).

* Lionel Messi is one of only six players to appear at five different World Cup tournaments – Antonio Carbajal, Lothar Matthaus, Rafael Marquez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Guardado are the others.

* Lionel Messi is the only player in World Cup history – at least since such records began in 1966 – to score and assist a goal in four separate matches.

* Lionel Messi is the youngest and oldest player in World Cup history to score and assist a goal in the same match.

* Lionel Messi is the youngest player to play for, score for and captain Argentina at a World Cup.

* Lionel Messi is the all-time top-scoring male South American in international fixtures (98 goals)

Dominating Mr. Vasco Da Farmer everywhere.....E Choke

hmmm
In Fredooooo's voice
Una kwana

Bimmarlykay:
Emi is GOATED.

expert17

TLona1:
The only record penaldo hold which Messi will never break is;

1 goal in Europa.

Weyreh

Arizoner:
list of players that made messi

Ronaldinho
Eto
Henry
Larsson,
Iniesta,
Deco,
Xavi
busquet
Guily
Marquez
Alves
Neymar
Abidal
Villa
Pedro

Why these same people no help their self or help another players to be as good or greater than messi?

forgiveness:


Dude! Stop disgracing yourself. You can hardly tell his best foot because he scored different kinds of goals with both his legs.

He doesn't need to adjust his yanch like Messi to score with both foots.

Person wey bend yanch take am win world cup,person wey stand straight fire shot no fit use am reach world cup final talk more of to win am. As I dey like this na yanch I won dey bend.

new look at Stamford bridge,what is boehly cooking,I swear this man they sweet me everyday and day , people said I'm gassed for nothing when he took over,by the time he is done with us .....

Lalar27:

Let him come and play in England sign for man Utd and lets see how well he will perform
If Ronaldo is in that Argentina team he would have wan the World Cup years ago cr7 is still the GOAT

He is a failure,if he can't use that Portugal team to even get to a world cup final,how him won take use Argentina team win world cup?
Nna no complain when him dey use same Portugal team score 4 to 5 goals against kwekwe teams,as e no fit use am win world cup nna change mouth

hensben:
It is shameful honestly and Ibime went so low this time.

I swear!!! Very very low.

Ibime:


If they ask you to quote this now you would start fumbling

Messi needed to win the World Cup to be considered with Pele and Maradona or disappear into obscurity. He never stood a chance of being the GOAT. It's too late for him

I wonder why you think your opinion of Messi matters when 99.9% of people in nairaland don't even know about you or who ibime is.
All your hate ramblings ends on Chelsea thread in sport sessions only.

If FIFA, Barack Obama, Americans, Europeans, north and south Americans and Asians.

If china can openly celebrate Lionel Messi when he won the world cup by lightning Their city with the huge billboards of Lionel Messi, if India, even Bangladesh and many cities all over the world can do it.
If respected sports pundits and sports channels all over the world can recognize Lionel Messi as the GOAT.

If legends from other sports like basketball, tennis, golf, rugby and even many more.

If musicians like drake, Kanye west and many legendary celebs can recognize Messi as the GOAT.
If the famous super bowl in America can recognize Lionel Messi as the GOAT,

Then ibime i am sorry, your opinion of Messi is as useless as the farts from my ass Which is fact.

It's the people arguing with you that i blame, They have enough data to waste, i rather use my data to watch the sex tape of Kim Kardashian than to waste it on arguing what has already been written in the stars.

Afobear:
Chick-fil-A Manager don talk

Nah I am unashamedly Pro Europe or should I specifically say Pro west on most things and that includes Sports but I have never been Ronaldo over Messi ever.

fredoooooo:
Chic2pimp if you no come out, I go meet you for dream . You go just deysee masqueradefor ya dream ... Come outside here

Fredooooooo oya come out of your cave make we talk .

I'll be Switzerland sometime next year by God's grace If dem born you make you no show face

Ballzproblem2:
new look at Stamford bridge,what is boehly cooking,I swear this man they sweet me everyday and day , people said I'm gassed for nothing when he took over,by the time he is done with us .....

Why are you gassed about a look?

Shey e go make us play well? Abi e go improve our league standing?

Bimffo:


Why are you gassed about a look?

Shey e go make us play well? Abi e go improve our league standing?

na you sabi I am not concerned about short term results.

it will be scary but not for us

Iniesta say make Una allow PENDUlums and PELEbiscites wail their hearts out ; what is done is done!

raumdeuter:
Expert17 this might Interest you

https://www.nairaland.com/430183/calling-lionel-messi-greatest-player/2#5893763

Wow. I said it, all this Pele fans are ex-pendulite

Lmao, semi professional footballers

Nice points Dayo.

pipe keeper, haven't kept clean sheet for long

donstan18:

I no watch Pele, you no watch am.

Ibime will bring Pele, you’ll cry and run.
I’ll bring Ronaldo, you’ll cry and run to Pele.

Kindly state what Messi got over Ronaldo in UCL and I’ll state what Ronaldo over Messi in World Cup.

You dey abi you didn’t dey?

We dey ooo

You say wetin...not when he's got all the stones.....Run to who. Thanos dey run? Have you ever seen "Thanos character" running away from violence/challenges even if na cartoon or comic advert?

If you like bring the number of jersey he used to mop the floor while in the dressing room and shalaye from now till eternity, na hia we dey

Lemme remind you.

This is what Thanos CONFIDENTLY told the avengers; You Couldn't Live with Your Own Failure, Where Did that Bring You? Back to Me!



1 world cup>>>>>>>Infinity Stones

OYA SEE BELOW!

Ballzproblem2:
pipe keeper, haven't kept clean sheet for long

This life sha

This guy was the best GK at the ucl then ,don’t really know what happened to him

Expert17:
Lmao, semi professional footballers

Same thing we are telling him now is what he is telling the other guy

I don’t know what changed ,even pele himself is confused about the amount of goals he scored by editing it everytime ,man was class but scored so many un official goals added to official goals

I don’t know what changed ,ibime might just be the biggest amala turner here

andrewbaba44:


Same thing we are telling him now is what he is telling the other guy

I don’t know what changed ,even pele himself is confused about the amount of goals he scored by editing it everytime ,man was class but scored so many un official goals added to official goals

I don’t know what changed ,ibime might just be the biggest amala turner here

Nothing has changed. There is nothing wrong with questioning Pele rubbing his 1,000 goals in the young man's face, as the quality of opponents could be questionable, but that has never changed my criteria for GOAT status. Same year I said Messi can join Pele IF he keeps this up, showing Pele and Maradona have always been my Gods. Notice the year was 2010 and I never mentioned Ronaldo, so this is not a case of a repentant Penduist

Ibime:

If Messi should continue this form, he will form a triumvirate with Maradona and Pele, a closed circle which Zidane does not belong to. . . . cos if Zidane belongs in such company, then we must also admit Ronaldo, Cruyff, Eusebio, Di Stefano etc.

And after Messi failed repeatedly to match Peles standards on the international stage, I told Debroslink 4 years ago that a World cup win can no longer take Messi above Pele, but he can still join the triumvirate.

The reason is simple - at this late stage of his career, he cannot claim the undisputed GOAT because he did not establish the dominance over his peers that Pele did. Messi went to countless COPAs and World Cups and did not shine. Pele shined and dominated every single international tournament he touched barring injury. He went to 4 World Cups, beasted two, was kicked out the other two by hatchet men. He went to one COPA America, won the Golden boot and Golden ball, went to 3 Intercontinental cups, won the golden boot in all, absolutely beasted them with 9.goals. There is not a single international tournament he did not establish absolute dominance over his peers unlike Messi who flopped continuously and was bullied continuously by Alexis Sanchez in COPA, Zidane, Xavi, Sneijder, Forlan, Robben and co in WC, and kept going for 16 years in order to finally put his name on the trophy. That's my argument for Pele - his dominance over his peers. Any of the triumvirate can make their claim to be the GOAT but Pele established the most dominance over his peers among the three