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.
This World Cup did more harm than good to Messi’s legacy ngl
-Corruption & referee bias all through the tournament
-Shamefully trying to get Cucurella sent off
-Doing nothing as Captain while his teammates attacked Spain in their celebrations
-Not leading the team to give Spain a guard of honor
I’m happy this World Cup has exposed Messi as an arrogant Sore loser & a cheat. You can talk about Goals & Assists but this is what the world will remember
JEFF POWELL MBE: Why unapologetic imposter Lionel Messi is now not even in the top five players of all time - and will forever be tainted as the leader of Argentina's brutes in ugliest World Cup final ever https://t.co/6R7uB0S9Mu