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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Jokerman(m): 10:30pm On Oct 14, 2019
Fladm:


Lol... Never
Its 75

Please check it again

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by ElasticStone(m): 10:31pm On Oct 14, 2019
Angelfrost:


Luka Modric is overrated??!... Lol... Una go just carry phone begin dey type anyhow.

Aside good passes and a few long range shots, what else is great about Modric?
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by fergie001: 10:33pm On Oct 14, 2019
dayowunmi:

1.The year Inter won the champions league and Netherlands reached the world Cup final,Sneijder deserved the Balon'dor over Lionel Messi. The year Ronaldo was nominated aside Frank Ribery, Ribery had a better season. Both got pity votes on both occasions. I made a veiled reference to that earlier when I said both had gotten pity votes over the course of their careers. Dunno why you asking if I think Ronaldo had gotten pity votes
2. You can't find a meaning to undeserved? It means they both won awards where there were more deserving contenders. And I used that in response to you or the op statement that Messi won more Fifa best than Ronaldo.
3. Okay. I concur.

I think Messi is more skillful than Ronaldo, but the hunger, dedication and passion of Ronaldo for the game is rare. You cannot logically argue Messi is better. You can have your preference between the two but if all you have to say is Messi has one more Fifa best than him then you are grasping at straws. For a start, they are both still active and there is no reason to bet against Ronaldo getting more Fifa best awards before he retires. Even if he doesn't, a sole fifa best awards gong is inadequate to qualify him as a Goat over Ronaldo except of course you are a barca fan living in your own little delusion of Messi's grandeur.
I will find you and I will give you two bottles of Budweiser.
Did you study Sports Science?

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by fijiano202(m): 10:35pm On Oct 14, 2019
YorubaKing:
Rubbish list!

Where's VanBasten, Romario, Bebeto etc... ? angry

Kids of the generation sha...
was wondering samething..

No ruud gullit,batistuta,van basten,romario,baggio lots more

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by fergie001: 10:36pm On Oct 14, 2019
SolarMight:


Robinho who? Baba you joking
I have been laughing at his arguments After he used robinho as great.
People will.just pick phone and be typing anything.
He will soon mention balotelli as greatest.

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by MOVIC6: 10:37pm On Oct 14, 2019
DanXplore:
I think I agree with this and feel free to add players into the catergories.



Source: https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-footballers-and-legends-ranked-from-goat-to-overrated-20191011.amp.html

My own additions:

Legend: Okocha, Iniesta
Great: Drogba, Robinho
Good: Crespo, Gabriel Jesus
Underrated: Essien, Dybala, Marcelo
Overrated: Kanu Nwankwo, Luka Modric, Iwobi, Tony Kroos, Firmino

rubbish
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by GraciaKim: 10:37pm On Oct 14, 2019
Jokerman:


Ogbeni...

Pele's player of the century award is bigger than 100 ballondors

Pele a three time World Cup winner

Pele 1260 goals to his name
Player of the century?? Hope 20th and 21st century isn't included in this century you are talking about
The 1260 goals is sham, he produced the stat himself. FIFA only record a much over 700 goals for him. Before you banter, Google is your friend

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by briggson07(m): 10:37pm On Oct 14, 2019
A Goat will always be a goat even when it's in a sheep's coat

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by SolarMight(m): 10:38pm On Oct 14, 2019
fergie001:

I have been laughing at his arguments After he used robinho as great.
People will.just pick phone and be typing anything.
He will soon mention balotelli as greatest.

Quite shocking
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by MOVIC6: 10:40pm On Oct 14, 2019
DanXplore:
I think I agree with this and feel free to add players into the catergories.



Source: https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-footballers-and-legends-ranked-from-goat-to-overrated-20191011.amp.html

My own additions:

Legend: Okocha, Iniesta
Great: Drogba, Robinho
Good: Crespo, Gabriel Jesus
Underrated: Essien, Dybala, Marcelo
Overrated: Kanu Nwankwo, Luka Modric, Iwobi, Tony Kroos, Firmino
good one sorry for the former
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:40pm On Oct 14, 2019
MOVIC6:


rubbish

Lol
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Angelfrost(m): 10:40pm On Oct 14, 2019
ElasticStone:


Aside good passes and a few long range shots, what else is great about Modric?

You just answered your own question... Those passes, shots, key tackles, are what makes him a solid midfielder... Not the best, but certainly not overrated!!!... Except that word now has a new meaning, then we can as well put half of the great footballers of today into that category.

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Iretii0511(m): 10:42pm On Oct 14, 2019
Fladm:


Lol... Never
Its 75

1959 Pele had 127 goals

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Resurgent2016: 10:43pm On Oct 14, 2019
ElasticStone:


Aside good passes and a few long range shots, what else is great about Modric?

He is a midfielder, what more do you expect ?
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by lincoln08541(m): 10:44pm On Oct 14, 2019
DanXplore:
I think I agree with this and feel free to add players into the catergories.



Source: https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-footballers-and-legends-ranked-from-goat-to-overrated-20191011.amp.html

My own additions:
OP and platini plus buhari are all from the same hometown

Legend: Okocha, Iniesta
Great: Drogba, Robinho
Good: Crespo, Gabriel Jesus
Underrated: Essien, Dybala, Marcelo
Overrated: Kanu Nwankwo, Luka Modric, Iwobi, Tony Kroos, Firmino
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:44pm On Oct 14, 2019
YorubaKing:
Rubbish list!

Where's VanBasten, Romario, Bebeto etc... ? angry

Kids of the generation sha...

I think these players are good at best.
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by GraciaKim: 10:45pm On Oct 14, 2019
dayowunmi:

1.The year Inter won the champions league and Netherlands reached the world Cup final,Sneijder deserved the Balon'dor over Lionel Messi. The year Ronaldo was nominated aside Frank Ribery, Ribery had a better season. Both got pity votes on both occasions. I made a veiled reference to that earlier when I said both had gotten pity votes over the course of their careers. Dunno why you asking if I think Ronaldo had gotten pity votes
2. You can't find a meaning to undeserved? It means they both won awards where there were more deserving contenders. And I used that in response to you or the op statement that Messi won more Fifa best than Ronaldo.
3. Okay. I concur.

I think Messi is more skillful than Ronaldo, but the hunger, dedication and passion of Ronaldo for the game is rare. You cannot logically argue Messi is better. You can have your preference between the two but if all you have to say is Messi has one more Fifa best than him then you are grasping at straws. For a start, they are both still active and there is no reason to bet against Ronaldo getting more Fifa best awards before he retires. Even if he doesn't, a sole fifa best awards gong is inadequate to qualify him as a Goat over Ronaldo except of course you are a barca fan living in your own little delusion of Messi's grandeur.
I hate to bold words, but I suggest you modify 'skillful' you used for messi over ronaldo as 'talented'
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:46pm On Oct 14, 2019
Ucheosefoh:
Hahaha let the war begin

Osheyyy...

I have my bazooka already loaded
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Sirwallace(m): 10:47pm On Oct 14, 2019
Jokerman:


Ogbeni...

Pele's player of the century award is bigger than 100 ballondors

Pele a three time World Cup winner

Pele 1260 goals to his name

Cancel 500 offside goals which are not part of the rule then and tell me how great he is.

Maradona does not even come close.

So messi is the real GOAT.

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:48pm On Oct 14, 2019
Ayoefa:
Trash list.

Pele overrated?

Messi GOAT? Yeah right, may be a RAM but definitely not a GOAT.

And Ronaldo is what? Deer abi?
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:49pm On Oct 14, 2019
Kroos8:


Yeye pikin... See my own

1. GOAT: Cristiano Ronaldo Messi - God Of Soccer. God Save The King

2. Legends: Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo de Lima, Johan Cruyff, Carles Puyol, George Weah Opong, and Diego Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo

3. Great: Gianluigi Buffon, Rivaldo, Franco Baresi, Roger Miller, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Abedi Pele, Neymar Jr, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, Samuel Eto'o, and Roberto Carlos

4. Good: Sergio Aguero, Didier Drogba, Virgil van Dijk, Robin van Persie, Kanu Nwankwo, Theophile Abega, and Kylian Mbappe

5. Underrated: Ngolo Kante, Yaya Toure, Oman Biyik, Sunday Oliseh, and Wilfred Ndidi

6. Overrated: Antoine Griezmann, Mesut Ozil, Gareth Bale, Michele Platini, Cesc Fabregas, Sergio Busquets, Karim Benzema.

7. Amateurs: Lionel Messi Kroos8

Fixed cheesy

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by GraciaKim: 10:51pm On Oct 14, 2019
ElasticStone:


Aside good passes and a few long range shots, what else is great about Modric?
What more do you want from a midfielder?
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:51pm On Oct 14, 2019
A perfect example of people that watch television instead of football My guy, your schizophrenia na a1 Both cr7 and lm10 are GOAT!

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:52pm On Oct 14, 2019
Angelfrost:


Luka Modric is overrated??!... Lol... Una go just carry phone begin dey type anyhow.

Modric is good at best.
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:54pm On Oct 14, 2019
frankIzuchukwu:
because we no watch pele na e make us to day disrespect him!!!
racism started years back because he was a black skin that's why FIFA still fail to honor him well

I have watched his games and I don't see anything spectacular about him. Alot of players these days are way ahead of him in my opinion.

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:55pm On Oct 14, 2019
SolarMight:


Robinho who? Baba you joking

I think Robinho was a fantastic but short-lived player.
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by MT: 10:56pm On Oct 14, 2019
DanXplore:


Lol in what universe is player of the century better than as many ballon d'or? Remember that Pelle played in the era where football was less sophisticated unlike Messi.

Also, I think it is more ideal to consider a player's individual performance than collective. No matter how good a player is, if you have very useless defenders who concede goals all the time, you will not go far in footbal and this could be illustrated well with the match Barca played against Liverpool in the most recent UEFA

Don't forget that Messi won gold for his country at the junior level and so presuming that he is not GOAT because he has not won a thing for his country is out of place. Also, Messi has taken his country to world cup finals atleast twice or even more. All the key playmakings and goals where made by him. What more do you want from Messi?

He won world cup too for argentina...under 20, I suppose

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Sirwallace(m): 10:56pm On Oct 14, 2019
Jokerman:


Puskas that Messi has never won?? So nomination is what defines greatness.. Lol

Ogbeni what has Messi acheived for him to be termed the greatest player ever over Pele, Maradona, Zidane, Delima or even CR7


All these guys are not as consistent spanning 10+ years and the Goat is still going strong.

Zidane won how many champions league? After his world cup in 1998.
Delima became a fat boy after winning the world best 3 times and remain irrelevant. The goat is stilll going strong.

Maradona is a drug dealer who won the world cup with drug and had a fantastic season with napoli and that was just it.

Cr7 is the greatest competition to the goat and that is obvious.
The goat has been very consistently consistent and still going stronger everyday.

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:56pm On Oct 14, 2019
MrNipplesLover:
GOAT: Aaron Ramsey.


Legends: Mutiu Adepoju [headmaster], John Utaka, Samuel Eto'o


Great: Nemanja Matic, Yaya Sanago, Efe Ambrose, Mikel Obi


Good: Alvaro Morata, Victor Moses, Ahmed Musa, Sadio Mane


Underrated: Jnr. Neymar, Samuel Chukwueze, Juan Mata


Overrated: Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Eden Hazard,


angry

Weed is not good
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Blessedman3056: 10:58pm On Oct 14, 2019
[Olympic and under 20 world cup.
quote author=dayowunmi post=83137332]
Don't be cynical. Answer his question. What major title or achievement has Messi won that Ronaldo hasn't? Facts only. And pls don't come and bang about goals scored. What has Messi won over Ronaldo or even Maradona or Pele? [/quote]

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Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Michael4632: 10:59pm On Oct 14, 2019
See below
Re: Ranking Of Footballers: From Goat To Overrated By Sportbible by Nobody: 10:59pm On Oct 14, 2019
KingAzubuike:
That kanu na one overrated piece of thrash.. well for Europe nobody knows him...

I thought so. He had a few good games and nothing more.

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