Piers Morgan has reiterated his belief that Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest player of all time, whilst describing Lionel Messi as a bully.
The journalist and presenter is a big Ronaldo fan and has explained in his most recent column why he thinks the Portuguese is greater than his eternal rival Messi.
"For me, it comes down to this: Messi is a genius, no question, but I've long suspected he's what cricket fans would call a 'flat-track bully", Morgan wrote in The Sun.
"For the first 17 years of his career, he only ever played for one club, Barcelona, where he was always surrounded by whole teams of world-class players.
"From the moment he left Spain and was taken out of his heavily protected comfort zone, he's faded faster than my taste buds after I caught COVID-19."
He contrasted this with the fact that Ronaldo has continuously sought new challenges in different countries and delivered.
"Yet Ronaldo has repeatedly moved clubs and countries, to give himself new challenges, from Portugal to England to Spain to Italy," he said.
"And everywhere he's gone, he's delivered big titles and broken more scoring records.
"Even at 36, when he could have taken a massive pay day for relaxed semi-retirement in America, he took a huge gamble instead by going back to a poor Manchester United side that's never recovered from his mentor Sir Alex Ferguson's departure."
For Morgan, there is no comparison
Morgan went on to highlight Ronaldo's staggering goalscoring record and his mental resilience as evidence of his superiority to Messi.
"The stats don't lie: Ronaldo's now the greatest ever Champions League goal-scorer, the greatest international goal-scorer, and the greatest overall goal-scorer," he continued.
"This isn't because he's a better natural player than Messi, or indeed other gifted greats like Ronaldinho and George Best, but because he has a superior mental strength and resilience.
"And that, as Michael Phelps proved at swimming, and Tiger Woods has proved at golf, is what makes a GOAT."
Morgan on Cristiano Ronaldo's attitude
Morgan added an anecdote from Ronaldo, from when the pair sat down for an interview together two years ago, which highlights his determination to be the best.
"My main strength is my mind," the player said then.
"I think it's my strongest point. Talent is not enough, if you don't dedicate 100 percent, you're not going to reach the level that you want.
"Sometimes, if I'm a little bit lazy and play with the kids or whatever, I have to go to the gym for at least 40 minutes afterwards because this will make the difference at the end of the day.
"If you don't do that work, you won't be number one."
memcekmsyz
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Morgan is a big joke or rather I would say he doesn't know the game that much..he said Messi was surrounded by world class players..so when Ronaldo was at realmadrid he was surrounded by who mediocre players..the likes of Xabi, ozil di maria, Marcelo modric, kroos..we grow by others, we need others to put us high up there..how do you think Ronaldo won his ballon diors do u think he won it by himself the players were there to help him likewise messi..so dnt talk about Messi having world class players around him..they are both talented but no matter how talented a person would be you need the help of others to make u grow..you are (@morgan) Jst so byass and ignorant..after leaving Madrid were did he go to Juventus is dat a challenge a team that at that time are about to be crowned there 7 successive league cup and you sit there and call that a challenge..why didn't he try and go to Atlanta or Genoa and see if he will win them the serie A cup or if he would score as many goals as he did in juve where he was surrounded by world class players who are ready to supply him the ball 4 him to score the goals..if he wanted a challenge he should have gone to Everton or any average team in the premier and then at the end of the season look at his stats if it will be impressive or not..don't talk about challenges or moving to different clubs will make u d greatest.. Messi will go to Juventus and win the league it won't be a surprise or he can go to man city or Liverpool and win also the league or even Bayern cuz we all know the carlibar of those teams..so that's not challenge cr7 only wants to add trophies to his name dats all bt not to face challenge or being the Goat never..I expected much from this piers of a guy but it's a shame to hear this from a well known journalist.. your opinion on this issues is a shame on ur career cuz u dnt know anything about football..Go back to Agt that's where you belong..
Bihcdnorty
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Ronaldo is good player but I think this guy is hyping him more way much like besides this yesterday Hatrick the man went missing for so many games .he could have just say I like CR7 more than Messi and that's normal 🤷♀️
Gunners4ever❤
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Madrid: 26 goals Atletico: 32 goals Sevilla: 38 goals Bayern: 4 goals Dortmund: 1 goal Psg: 6 goals Lyon: 5 goals Chelsea: 3 goals City: 7 goals Liverpool: 2 goals United: 4 goals Tottenham: 2 goals Arsenal: 9 goals Juventus: 3 goals Milan: 8 goals 156 goals Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini is the greatest flat-track bully in football history
Gaire
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a talent without hard work is like swimming pool without water very useless but cr7 have combined talent plus hard work he's now the bestest among himself.
BaIIerdict
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The day Cristiano Ronaldo was whistled by his own fans at the Bernabeu after losing the ball. He scored FOUR in response. That's the difference between real 🐐
BrishavSharmaGarg
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At last who scored become hot topic and who does score become a sideliner 💥💥💥💥💥