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Wayne Rooney has risked reigniting the fierce Cristiano Ronaldo versus Lionel Messi debate together with his newest feedback on the long-standing query.
The previous Manchester United striker has beforehand described Messi as the most effective footballer of all time. In 2012, Rooney tweeted: “Messi is a joke. For me the most effective ever.”
This was then adopted up a decade later, with Rooney contending “Nothing has modified” after the Argentinian ahead led his nation to victory on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The Englishman’s newest contribution has now surfaced, after an look on a YouTube podcast yesterday.
Chatting with Lyés and CultureCams on a variety of subjects, Rooney revealed Ronaldo’s obsession with scoring objectives was a transparent level of distinction together with his Argentine adversary.
“So for example, Cristiano Ronaldo, his mindset is objectives,” Rooney mentioned. “He doesn’t care about anything, it’s objectives, that’s all he needs.”
868 profession objectives to this point would point out Ronaldo has been moderately profitable in attaining this aim of scoring objectives. However Rooney believes it’s not one shared by Messi.
“Whereas you take a look at Messi, he needs to play a bit extra – precisely like myself,” Rooney contended. The 38-year-old revealed this want “to play” is one which doubtlessly hindered his productiveness on the pitch, regardless of it being one of many defining options of his play model.
“I noticed one thing that Gary Neville mentioned lately, that Alex Ferguson at all times used to have a go at me for coming too deep, but it surely was as a result of I wished to play soccer. And I may have been a bit extra egocentric and stayed up prime, and possibly scored just a few extra objectives, however I wished to play,” Rooney acknowledged.
As per Transfermarkt, over the course of Messi’s membership profession, he has scored 715 objectives. Ronaldo has barely higher his rival by scoring 740 occasions all through his profession. Nevertheless, Ronaldo has supplied 236 assists at membership stage all through his profession; Messi, by comparability, has supplied 344.
A stark distinction.
It’s this skill to offer as a lot as produces which units the Argentine star aside from his Portuguese rival – an essential distinction which undoubtedly leads Rooney to corroborate his 2012 tweet in 2024.
