Totally dismissing Maradona who played in not only thee hardest league in the World at the time but also the toughest and Best with a team who struggled previously to even get in the top half of the table.
Hardest, toughest, best? Based on what? The fact that Italian football was on TV at the time? Leicester struggled without Mahrez, does that make him better than Messi? No.
He was never in his time there surrounded by so called superstars either unlike Messi who throughout his Barca career has been in teams full of them.
That’s just wrong. His Napoli and Argentina teams were filled with excellent players. It goes back to my original point though. The standard of football is all round better now, hence Messi being surrounded with ‘superstars’ and STILL outshining all of them.
He didn't need growth hormones either. Only drugs he took were Colombia's finest.
So cocaine, which is proven to enhance sporting performance and is a banned PED, as well as illegal and immoral is okay? But not some prescription drugs to treat stunted growth? Okay.
Pitches resembled cow fields compared to the carpets they play on nowadays.
Defenders in Serie A back then were absolutely Brutal and hatchetmen. Compared to what you can't do nowadays.
Is Morelos only a good player when he plays on a shite pitch in Scotland then? No he is not he’s a good player no matter what surface he plays on.
Thats just to begin with.
To dismiss him like that is frankly wrong and pretty sad really.
Even when Maradona would agree with me and not you?
Different age groups will have their own opinion on it no matter what.
It's like a broken record this topic on here and always ends up with the same crap flung back and forth. Threads like this end up in a total clusterfuck.
Threads like this do indeed end up a cluster %^*&. Particularly when someone pedals the ‘oh but growth hormones’ rubbish.
No one is denying Messi his place as one of Greatest but dismissing others like that isnt right.
No one is dismissing anyone else. They’re all up there with Messi.