🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: In 2016, Alexis Sánchez won the Copa América, was named Player of the Tournament, and was involved in 31 goals. He didn’t even receive a Ballon d’Or nomination. 🤔
Yet in 2021, Messi won the Ballon d’Or over Lewandowski largely because of that same trophy. The criteria clearly weren’t applied consistently.
Guess who won the Ballon D'or in 2021 for only winning the same trophy and winning Copa Del Rey with his club.
His career is stained forever with favouritism and corruption.
Messi fans say Pelé’s three World Cups don’t make him greater than Messi.
So why does Messi’s one World Cup suddenly make him greater than Ronaldo?
You cannot say trophies don’t define greatness when Pelé is involved, then use one trophy as the entire argument against Cristiano. Pick a standard and stick to it.
Evolución de los argentinos
2019: Todo está amañado 🥲
2021-2025: Hay que ser llorón para creer todo está amañado. La tenés adentro 🤣🤣
2026: Todo está amañado 🥲
To Argentina fans, nothing is ever suspicious when it benefits them.
Maradona scores with his hand? “Football heritage.”
The controversy surrounding the 1978 World Cup? Nothing to see.
Five penalties in seven matches in Qatar? Completely normal.
Every favourable incident on the road to the 2026 final? Just coincidence.
But the moment Argentina lose a final after failing to register a single shot in 120 minutes, suddenly it’s corruption, conspiracy and robbery.
Apparently, football is only rigged when Argentina don’t win.
Do not allow Messi fans Gaslight you using"most trophies and individual honors" as a Metric for the GOAT debate 😂
Up until 2025, Dani Alves had the highest number of trophies won, nobody referred to him as the undisputed GOAT of football.
Before Messi and Ronaldo, Michel Platini was the untouchable king with his consecutive Ballon d'Ors. No one referred to him as the GOAT of football because he had most ballon D’or.
It is pure, unadulterated recency bias.
The second Messi statistically catches up, the goalposts magically shift.
The same way they invented Knock out Goals that wasn’t a metric in 2010 World Cup when he had zero knock out goal, the same way International trophy doesn’t matter to be the GoAT but immediately he has one, it suddenly matters.
Let’s never forget how they started using Goal and Assist as a metric since Ronaldo started having more Goals.
No allow them Gaslight you.
Viva Ronaldo.
Siuuuuuu.
“Why everyone suddenly hates Messi” is genuinely the most misguided take of all time.
I’ve seen so many posts similar to this lately. Painting Argentina and Messi as the ‘victims’ of a big hate campaign. Pull up whatever irrelevant algorithmic data you want. Blame paid accounts. Quote psychological theory. At the end of the day… it’s pretty simple.
Barcelona allegedly paid off referees for 2 decades, spanning Messi’s entire career…
The Argentinian FA are being investigated for money laundering. We’ve all seen the blatant refereeing favouritism across two World Cups now. We all saw their violent, aggressive and petulant behaviour all tournament. We aren’t blind…
Inter Miami, disproportionate to the rest of the MLS, hoarded old European talent and walk the league as soon as Messi arrives. Somehow qualifying for the Club World Cup without actually meeting any criteria for such qualification. This is a plastic club, with no history and purchased success…
While you can’t blame all of this on Messi, obviously. He is clearly complicit. He clearly benefits from the purchased success of such institutions. He is clearly a money milking machine for FIFA and America. Something Infantino is well aware of… he ‘suffers’ with Messi after all.
And people don’t like it. People don’t like blatantly manufactured success. People don’t like cheats. People don’t like teachers pets. People don’t like players that try and get other players (Cucurella) unfairly sent off in a World Cup final when they are clearly being outclassed on the pitch. People don’t like people that lack integrity.
But nah. I guess we’re all swept up in mass hysteria! We’re all brain washed! And this is dangerous rhetoric!
Shut up. The Messi bias is nauseating.
Call me a hater but I LOVE this Leo Messi hate. After years of watching him do this nice guy gimmick, get unfair favoritism and get propped up by the media, I love the veil is lifting and that people are finally seeing him for who he is.
Cristiano Ronaldo will retire with a clear conscience. He earned everything he’s won; nothing was ever given to him. The same cannot be said about Lionel Messi.
Also Messi and his fans act like he is supernatural or something , he went to PSG and couldn't eat up that league
A league that Alexander Lacazette was doing 28 league goals in 30 league games
His champions League career after 2015 was also a total gbeff , couldn't do anything in the champions League without his brother's xavi and iniesta
A los argentinos cuando Maradona metió un gol con la mano no les pareció sospechoso. Cuando su dictadura robó el mundial de 1978 todo estaba bien. Los 5 penaltis en 7 partidos de Qatar tampoco les pareció sospechoso. Todo lo que hemos visto en 2026 hasta la final no les pareció raro… Pero perder una final en la que tiraron 0 veces en 120 minutos les esta pareciendo un robo y todo muy conspiranoico.