Former Barca boss is well aware of the Argentinian’s limitations
Terry Venables, as quoted in yesterday’s Daily Mail:
‘If it does come down to Messi against Ronaldo, well, Messi is one of the best players in the world, but give me Ronaldo. Messi is wonderful on the right but Ronaldo is terrific on the right, the left and through the middle as well. He also scores goals with his head, which Messi couldn’t do even if they put a top hat on him.
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17 responses so far
1 f1sh // May 28, 2009 at 8:18 am
Spot on, Terry. LOL
2 Gg08 // May 28, 2009 at 8:26 am
Messi is the best player in the world. I’ve been saying that for about 6 months and last night’s game just confirms it! And as for Messi scoring with his cabeza- NEVER!!! (sarcasm…)
3 raymond // May 28, 2009 at 8:28 am
Idiot. I believe Messi scored with his head yesterday. Spoiler , flitter your posts & dont allow idiots on your blog!
4 Jon // May 28, 2009 at 8:31 am
ahaha…. he scored an amazing goal with his head yesterday…. oh well terry. No wonder Newcastle are going down
5 fourstar // May 28, 2009 at 8:44 am
Raymond: You see that thing whistling past your left ear? There it goes again? No?
Oh well, that was what we call “the point” :)
6 Ryan Bailey // May 28, 2009 at 8:51 am
“Idiot. I believe Messi scored with his head yesterday. Spoiler , flitter your posts & dont allow idiots on your blog!”
@raymond
OK then, you’re banned raymond.
7 fourstar // May 28, 2009 at 8:58 am
To paraphrase Sir Alan:
“Raymond - you’re flittered!”
8 McRib // May 28, 2009 at 8:59 am
I loved it how Ronaldo believed last night really was some kind of ‘best player in the world’ competition. Every time he got the ball he was looking to shoot and his selfish play didn’t do Man U any favours.
In contrast Messi linked up really well with Xavi and Iniesta and Barcelona’s overall team benefitted.
Anyway, for my money the best player is Iniesta. Forget skills and tricks, his passing and movement is so intelligent and you just cannot tackle him.
9 Jon // May 28, 2009 at 9:40 am
tbh ronaldo was the only united player with any fight, even if he wasn’t on song
10 Ollie Irish // May 28, 2009 at 9:45 am
Loving Raymond’s work.
11 Espn // May 28, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Barcelona Won the Uefa Champions League Clearly last night & messi deserved the title BEst in the World (imma Man U Fan) ,Man U Played Very Badly the First IO minutes They were good but after Eto’s Goal They were chasing Ghost on the pitch,But NOT Cuss imma Man U fan watched the game 4 times in a row & i must say The Only players that play theyre part was Van Der Sar & Ronaldo even Though Everybody in the worlds Thinks he Sucks He Surely Give it his best Just acknowledge he’s a realy talented Player he maybe arrogant but still even if he’s a Diver Or Complain’s alot he is Talented, he realy wanted that game he even Defended :O against puyol Ronaldo Defending its a miracle But he did even though he Fouled puyol 4 times he wanted that game & as a Man U fan they loss But Barca Deserved it Congrats Barca :)
12 Luis // May 28, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Mr Bailey…please cut Raymond some slack: I just found out “flittering” is the equivalent of “twittering”, but for dumbasses…
Boy’s just trying to be “soooo coool” hehe..
13 jimbo // May 28, 2009 at 3:54 pm
chaps chaps chaps, how can you look beyond Gerrard for the worlds best player, he can do everything!
11 Gerrards vs. 11 Ronaldo or Messi’s?!
Point made.
14 Sean // May 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Ronaldo is hardly the World’s Best Player. Messi is way classier than him.
Ronnie’s behavior reminded me of Portugal’s behavior in the World Cup 2006 against the Dutch.
15 The Todd // May 28, 2009 at 4:32 pm
in my opinion, messi is like ronaldo, without the bullshit. for example, messi got fouled, and still tried to carry on playing before the ref blew. ronaldo gets fouled, and has a hissy fit for 5 minutes, before commiting a ridiculus barge and earning himself a yellow card
16 Fergus // May 29, 2009 at 3:05 am
How is it that we are talking about Ronaldo being this year’s world’s best player when this season, he wasn’t even the best player in his league, or even the best player in his team?
17 jaffycake // May 29, 2009 at 11:48 am
im kop fan and i believe (tho i hate to admit it) Ronaldo is the best player in the world he is more the complete player in comparison to messi, who is a wonderful player with the ball, but without it he is another berbatov.
Tho some might find my next statement might seem bias., i believe gerrard vs ronaldo is a better rivalry