What’s with the lies though
In Portugal’s major starting 11, only Ronaldo and Felix are not playing in top clubs in Europe.
3 of their major starters have done a back to back UCL. They’re the real team full of winners.
On the other hand, half of Argentina squad are in Atletico Madrid who are chronic losers and bottlers.. so again where’s the “full of winners” coming from?
Molina is a bench player in Atletico, RDP is in Inter Miami, same with Messi… Montiel is in River basin abi na plate.
Or is it Romero that barely survived relegation?
Paredes is in Boca fvcking Juniors. 😂
Team of winners indeed.
Switzerland should've finished this game with two red cards.
I swear, in any other game this gets given as a red, if it wasn't for all the criticism and pressure refs have been getting lately for Argentina games, he would've 100% shown the red.
Our hate for Argentina is making us ignore things like this. If it happened the other way around, everyone would be talking about it
It’s football, moments like this happen. But the outrage only seems to appear when it’s Argentina
Messi has surpassed Maradona by every single metric goals, assists, club trophies, individual accolades, and delivering a World Cup alongside Copas Maradona never won. Claiming otherwise is brainless. There is no 40% poll you liar. You manufactured that out of your ass to cope.
To say Messi had everything on a platter just proves you don't watch football with your actual eyes. Someone who carries broken teams on his back, scores the most solo goals in the history of the sport and creates everything out of absolutely nothing does not have a platter.
You have no point on his temporary international retirement. He came back, took total accountability and then anchored the team to win three consecutive international trophies. Whatever happened before is meaningless.
Your point about him never being signed for a transfer fee is a stupid argument that exposes your ignorance. Messi stayed loyal through thick and thin, making his team succeed from the ground up. He didn't need to jump from club to club like Ronaldo, desperately hunting for whatever pre packaged, elite team had already been winning their respective leagues for multiple years just so he could start padding his stats. Ronaldo took the easy way out by moving to ready made champions and claiming it was a "challenge"🤣. He fooled the football world.
Messi is quite literally a better goalscorer than Ronaldo. He has a vastly superior goals per game ratio, way less penalty goals, and he achieves this while simultaneously being the greatest dribbler and playmaker on earth. Ronaldo is a penalty box poacher who relies entirely on service. MESSI IS THE SERVICE, the dictator of the tempo, and the finisher all in one.
Negreira case or trying to link it to Messi's talent is just dumb. Referees didn't dribble past players for him. Off pitch noise takes absolutely nothing away from raw, on pitch footballing ability. That’s the ultimate distinction here Messi fans just need to talk about the actual 90 minutes of greatness on the pitch, while you lot have to look for every conspiracy under the sun to cope.
You can live in your delusional fantasy bubble and pretend no amount of Ballon d'Ors or World Cups will change your mind, but your refusal to accept the truth doesn't change objective reality. You have to actively lie to yourself every single day just to keep your narrative alive. Keep your blinders on if it helps you sleep at night but the entire world already sees the gap. Ronaldo is not half the player Messi is. Messi is the GOAT and it's not even close.
Dear @ebehdad
RE: The Conflict of Perverse Incentives
I want to be fair to you. You had less than a month to structure a complex billion pound transaction, so some mistakes were always going to happen. But the mistake I’m describing isn’t an execution error. It’s a conceptual flaw baked into the deal from day one, and it has permanently poisoned your strategic position.
You built a structure with three stakeholder groups, and you only have a fiduciary duty to one of them. That was always going to end badly. Let me explain why.
A man came to you and said he had £300m and wanted to buy a business for £4.2bn. Two of his mates would chip in £300m each. You lent him the rest. To their credit, they’ve been matching cash calls ever since. But here is what you actually agreed to: you needed Boehly’s money, which meant Boehly got something in return. What he got was influence over the sporting operation. And the first thing he did with it was sack Thomas Tuchel so he could have his dressing room access.
That decision, made to protect your financial relationship with a co-investor who couldn’t actually afford the asset, is what set everything else in motion.
Roman left you a blueprint. He won trophies, built a global brand, and maintained a fair value that always exceeded his cost basis. Central to that was Cobham. Fans across England sing “he’s one of our own” for a reason. That bond between a club and its homegrown players is not sentiment. It is enterprise value. You dismantled it. You sold the graduates and killed the pipeline, not because it made sporting sense, but because your financial model required short term asset monetisation over long term brand construction.
You have now spent more on transfers than any ownership group in the history of football. Chelsea are currently 9th. Below Brentford. Below Brighton. That is the sporting output of your model, and those fans who sang “he’s one of our own” have noticed.
Here is where your conceptual flaw becomes permanent. Boehly has £100m of interest accrued and payable to Ares. You have at least £600m sitting in the Cayman Islands, accruing and payable to COP III. Across the group the interest bill is approaching £400m this year. That means you have no choice but to run this club for one purpose: to make debt service payments. Managing a football club to pay interest has never worked in the history of this game unless you’re Manchester United. Your problem is that you don’t have their revenues. So you are flipping players to fund cash flow.
There will be no properly experienced signings. No manager with real authority. No trophies. You’re caught in a sell-to-buy death spiral and fans have worked out exactly what is happening.
If you’ve made it this far in my letter, this is the part I’d encourage you to sit up and focus on. You need the fans more than they need you. Every day more of them are learning what this structure actually means for the club they love, and they are making a rational decision: do not buy the brand of an owner who is just here to pay interest.
Your perverse incentive is to balance the books, manage the asset, and extract the best possible valuation before the debt matures. Their perverse incentive is to make sure you never get there, because the only exit that actually serves their interests is Ares foreclosing and forcing a sale to someone who can run this club properly.
Think about what that means. The fans who generate the revenue you need to service your debt are now rationally incentivised to undermine that revenue.
You created a structure where your key stakeholder group is rooting for your creditor to take the club from you. That is not a communication problem or a PR problem. It is a structural conflict with no resolution inside your current ownership model.
I’m not sure what the long term prognosis is for a business in that position. But I think you already know.
Yours truly,
bf
Dear Malik once again,
Your comparison is historically very inaccurate.
The Bible is not one book written after Jesus. It is a collection of texts written over ~1,500 years.
The Old Testament was written centuries before Jesus and was already recognized as Scripture in His lifetime.
“And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.” - Luke 24:44
- Jesus quoted and affirmed these writings as the Word of God.
- The New Testament was written within the 1st century, by eyewitnesses or close companions of eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1–4), not centuries later.
By contrast:
- Sahih Bukhari was compiled ~200+ years after Muhammad, based on oral reports, and is not considered divine revelation in Islam.
Key difference:
1. The Bible contains claimed revelation recognized by the community before, during, and after Jesus.
2. Hadith collections are later historical compilations, valuable but secondary.
Both involve human writers, yes — but not the same kind of text, timeline, or authority.
Don’t flatten very different traditions into a false equivalence.
The Bible can never & should never be compared with the Quran or any other book whatsoever.