Why Cristiano Ronaldo Ranks Below Messi and Maradona

Do you think Cristiano Ronaldo can come into that conversation

between... Where do you-

Yeah

... where do you rate him? Where do you put him-

I s-

... between Messi, Ronaldo?

I don't like to be rude.

Yeah.

And it, it, I know for, for Cristiano gets upset if you,

if you don't

put him in the conversation, but you have to be honest.

And,

and Cristiano is a fantastic, incredible, incredible

footballer. One of the all-time greats, no question about that.

His goal scoring rec-

Oh, yeah

... is, is in, is right up with Messi's.

But he can't do the other stuff. He can't beat four

men in a, wriggle out of a hole in the middle of the

pitch and come out and you go,

"Oh my God, how did you do that?"

Yeah.

He, he c- he can't... He hasn't got that vision that, that, that Messi

has or that Diego has. So, no, for me, and I have to be

honest, he doesn't come into that conversation. He comes in...

I would probably, you know, you'd probably put someone like Pele maybe

at, because

of his... Uh, but I didn't see enough.

But in my time of watching football, I'd have Diego and Messi at the

top, with Messi slightly ahead because of the

reasons I've given.

Yeah.

And then I'd have...

I'd probably have Brazilian Ronaldo ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo

slightly, but I'd put them on the same thing.

You know, people like that, and Zidane, and, and Neymar and-

Yeah

... players that slightly under. And even Mbappe may be possibly is, uh,

coming

into that, um, on a... But it's mad, isn't it, that you can have

unbelievably great players and then have another level above.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And for me, honestly from... And I've watched, I've watched

football for years and years and years and years, um, those

two stand out