"When you look at the stats between Ronaldo and Messi, it's important to remember Ronaldo is two years' older.
'It's also important to remember that, unlike Messi who stayed in his Barcelona comfort blanket for 17 years, Ronaldo has won league titles in four different countries, including the three most competitive leagues in the world.
'He's taken himself out of comfort zones – he could have stayed at Real Madrid for most of his career if he wanted to, but he's deliberately taken himself into new leagues and new challenges.
'Whereas Messi, he's only ever done it for Barcelona, and there all around him the entire time were the world's greatest players. Ronaldo has often had to lead that line pretty much on his own.'
'I've been watching a lot of the Messi fan-boying and fan-girling during the World Cup, and I've been laughing,'
'OK, he's having a good World Cup, but it's the first one he's turned up for!
'If you stay at a team like Barcelona for the majority of your career and then you go to PSG and a very easy league like the French Ligue 1, are you really a better player over that period than somebody who has consistently won titles in three of the most competitive leagues there are? I'm not sure.
'Diego Maradona, to me, is the greatest Argentine to ever play the game – Messi doesn't even get that GOAT title.
'If you look at career goals, Champions League goals, Ronaldo is way ahead. He's better in the air, he's better with both feet, albeit Messi has a left-foot wand.
'I can rack up a pretty large sheet of facts which I think leads to the conclusion that not only is Ronaldo the GOAT, but Messi is only the second biggest GOAT from Argentina!
'And I think France are going to win the World Cup and break Messi's heart, anyway!"
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