Messi was abject against Milan and is mediocre for Argentina, he only likes it when he is playing for Barca at home against inferior opposition. He once had a good game against Manu well woopie dooo, a one off game with the might of the all conquering Spanish international side making him look good. It's not enough, sorry. If he was truly in the class of Maradona he would do much more for Argentina and would have done much more the other day against Milan. He was rubbish!

Ok, I'm certain that you aren't brain-damaged, you are definitely fishing. Cap off, I have been in your net several times.

Messi is a brilliant footballer but I'm doing my best to give reasons as to why Maradona may edge it.
I remember Maradona being man marked in his WCs by 2 or 3 at a time which freed up his teammates and he capitalised on this
A fantastic Brazil side who in no way would one describe as dirty nearly kicked him off the park and had the shirt torn of his back. These were the lengths teams went to and illustrate how feared DM was.
It's all zonal nowadays and Messi gets more room imo and no way gets the rough treatment DM did

*the blanked out word was common slang for prostitute, just so you know

High Lander, I have swam free of your net. Enough now!

highlander - do you ever get anything right on this forum?

I think you are still heart broken from the way Messi has torn your side to bits in the CL the last couple of times they have met.

Give me ronaldo every time.

Seriously I saw maradona do one trick that left me feeling omg!
I'll try and describe it, I'm sure it was on youtube.

On the left wing jogging with the ball, on the touchline roughly 10 yards from byline, did one of those ronaldo/rivaldo things where he crossed his left leg behind his right to cross the ball into the box. We've seen this a few times since but he hit this ball hard and just above head height ,the sort of crosses strikers love.
Incredible.

Highlander showing his lack of knowledge as usual and trotting out the line about Maradona taking 'mediocre Napoli and Argentina' sides to victory.

Go and read up on it highlander before trotting out other peoples cliches that you have little clue about. Both Argentina and Napoli had strong squads you mug.

Only in your head Jam,


As ibra said when asked if messi could be as effective in seria A... 'if he can take the barcelona team with him'.


Its as clear as day what is going to happen, when barcelona fade as the force in world football as xavi and inestia retire messi's effectiveness will dip and the mugs will claim he peaked too early or some pish.

This is the best side the boy will play in. There will be no real drop in his quality, he just won't look quite as good and the mugs will misdiagnose as per.

Called it (nap)

John -- it's not that a lack of footage means players weren't great. But most of the old greats get their best highlights played over and over for years afterwards, and when you only saw them a handful of times, their great games live in the memory.

Players like Messi and Ronaldo now, they have many great games and some poor ones too. But every minute is shown and analysed again and again; consqeuently, their great games don't become quite so legendary and their poor games are there for all to see.

Nobody thinks of Maradona and remembers the seasons where he got 11 league goals in 20 league games for Barca (not bad, but not earth-shattering) or his last season at Napoli, where he scored just 6 goals in 18 league games. People remember the World Cup, where he did great on TV. That's not to say that he wasn't a great player, but all of his average performances have faded from memory -- in most cases, there isn't even a memory of them because those games weren't on TV.

R0y -- the flipside is, he is the standout player in a team which has several world-class performers. Not Ibra when he was there, not Villa (two really excellent players). But Messi. He's the biggest fish in the biggest pond.

" Maradona took a mediocre Argentina, and made them world beaters."   What a mug.. Utterly clueless.

The fact that you have refused to answer the question, also makes you a mug.

No R0y he plays a much different role for Argentina than Brcelona and they dont look to him so much for goals as the one thing they have is goalscorers. He is there to create as a playmaker and wont get the same number of goals as he does for Barca.

Ronaldo also has a far poorer goalscoring rate for Portugal as does Rooney for England etc its not just Messi.

R0y you seem to point everything towards Xavi and Iniesta yet Messi continues to score for Barca when one or both are missing.

The most creative players out with Messi in La Liga this year are Di Maria and Ozil. Who do they play for and assisist each week?

Jamdav what inane drivel are you going on about now? It looks like you have plucked some obscure stat, probably the only one you could find that make Maradona look bad, you hopeless desperate Messi bum boy

Highlander as I thought, you have no rational argument to come back with and come out with inane drivel.

Who does Arsene Wenger think is the greatest ever?

Greatest player ever was rubbish against a mediocre side like AC Milan, utterly hopeless, he looked like a plug

high-lander tell us about the best two or three players for Argentna in 1986 besides Maradona?

How about the best to or three players for Napoli in the late eighties?

I doubt you know one name outwith Maradona.

the dza, sniping from the side-lines like an angry chimpanzee

Care to answer my last question highlander?

Or as per usual are you going to avoid backing up one of your clue less statements?