🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović on the Messi vs Ronaldo GOAT debate:
“Every week, every month, every year, somebody asks me the same question.”
🗣️ “‘Zlatan, who is the GOAT? Messi or Ronaldo?’”
🗣️ “Honestly? I get tired of hearing it.”
🗣️ “Not because they aren't great players. They are.”
🗣️ “But because people talk about football as if it is a video game.”
🗣️ “One player scores a goal and suddenly he's the GOAT.”
🗣️ “The other wins a trophy and suddenly the debate is over.”
🗣️ “Football is bigger than that.”
🗣️ “Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest athletes football has ever seen.”
🗣️ “The goals. The mentality. The discipline. The longevity.”
🗣️ “Nobody can take that away from him.”
🗣️ “Over 900 career goals.”
🗣️ “League titles in different countries.”
🗣️ “Champions Leagues.”
🗣️ “Records everywhere.”
🗣️ “Cristiano created a legacy that may never be repeated.”
🗣️ “But then there is Lionel Messi.”
🗣️ “And this is where people get angry with me.”
🗣️ “Because for me, Messi is not normal.”
🗣️ “Cristiano mastered football.”
🗣️ “Messi became football.”
🗣️ “When I watch Messi, I don't see a player following the game.”
🗣️ “I see a player creating the game.”
🗣️ “The goals.”
🗣️ “The assists.”
🗣️ “The dribbling.”
🗣️ “The vision.”
🗣️ “The intelligence.”
🗣️ “The World Cup.”
🗣️ “Everything.”
🗣️ “People ask me how I compare them.”
🗣️ “Sometimes I don't understand the comparison.”
🗣️ “It's like comparing a lion to a shark.”
🗣️ “Both are killers.”
🗣️ “But they hunt differently.”
🗣️ “Cristiano is the greatest goalscorer I have ever seen.”
🗣️ “Messi is the greatest footballer I have ever seen.”
🗣️ “There is a difference.”
🗣️ “And before Ronaldo fans get angry, listen carefully.”
🗣️ “Being second to Messi is not an insult.”
🗣️ “Most players would dream of being second.”
🗣️ “Cristiano is a legend.”
🗣️ “A football icon.”
🗣️ “A player who changed history.”
🗣️ “But if you lock me in a room and force me to choose one player...”
🗣️ “One player for one match.”
🗣️ “One player for my life.”
🗣️ “One player to represent football itself.”
🗣️ “I choose Messi.”
🗣️ “Every time.”
🗣️ “Because goals can be broken.”
🗣️ “Records can be broken.”
🗣️ “Trophies can be matched.”
🗣️ “But what Messi does with a football?”
🗣️ “That cannot be taught.”
🗣️ “That cannot be trained.”
🗣️ “That is a gift from God.”
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🗣️ “Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest players in history.”
🗣️ “Lionel Messi is history.”
I’m not sure ITV are massively advancing the idea of women’s equality in football by having Emma Hayes give her analysis from a set which looks like she’s stuck in a kitchen?
😭🇮🇪 Roy Keane delivered another classic line on the Overlap today and had Gary Neville and Ian Wright in stitches:
🗣️ Keane: “Gary was telling me he went through a bad spell of form after the EUROs for about 6 months because of relationship issues. WOW. Really? WOW.”
🗣️ Neville: “I obviously had a captain at the time who I didn’t feel I could go to.” 😂
🗣️ Keane: “If a full-back is going through relationship issues, it doesn’t mean he can’t stop a cross does it?"
"No I’m being serious: That shouldn’t stop you from closing your winger down: 'Oh my girlfriend’s broke up with me because she’s got her eyesight back'.”
“You can still stop crosses, that shouldn’t effect ya.” 😂
The thing is, Roy is absolutely spot on, but his delivery is always on point. 👏
Una familia se reunió para ver el Mundial pero acabaron descubriendo que el abuelo tenía un montón de páginas porno guardadas en el televisor
JAJAJAJAJAJA
WOW. Just WOW. 🤯
🏴 Scotland’s Craig Ferguson has conquered a 3,200-mile journey from LA to Boston and raised over £1 million for mental health. 👏
🚨🎙️ STEVEN GERRARD ON ANDONI IRAOLA’S APPOINTMENT AS LIVERPOOL MANAGER:
“This is a top, top appointment. Andoni Iraola – proper football man. He’s grafted his way up, Cyprus, lower leagues in Spain, Mirandes, Rayo Vallecano, and then he goes to Bournemouth, a team fighting relegation, loses players, and still gets them into Europe.
That’s not by accident, that’s hard work and real coaching.
The lads are saying straight away – Monday to Sunday, demanding sessions, no days off. High press, aggressive, hybrid, quick transitions, he doesn’t want to see backward passes, he wants it forward, vertical, on the front foot.
That’s the intensity Liverpool fans love, that’s the Klopp spirit but with something fresh.
Richard Hughes has backed him twice now – that tells you everything. He knows what he’s bringing to Anfield.
Liverpool, this is one for the mentality. This lad will make us fight, make us run, make us believe again. I’m buzzing for it. Deserved. Let’s go.”
At some point, senior Premier League execs have to offer a proper explanation in public for their leniency towards Chelsea. They owe an explanation to fans of clubs punished more harshly. They owe an explanation to those clubs who did abide by the rules. They have to offer some explanation as to why PSR breaches are deemed far more serious than acts of "deception and concealment". Yes, these are the offences of a previous regime at Chelsea. But inconsistencies run through the PL's defence and their reputation is damaged. They can’t hide from a controversy of this magnitude.
Anyone expecting anything else than that today, needs their head feeling. Spurs, an injury list longer than a £100 receipt spend in B&M, come to Anfield and we make them look like prime 1970 Brazil.
Liverpool couldn't finish a fuckin' Weightwatchers meal at the moment.