Rooney: PFA Player of the year and Fifa World Player Of The Year

[Adamm]

Messi admits he's been sub-par this season.

If Messi can admit it, all you fan boys can.

He's mesmeric every time he plays. It's not a fan boy when you can witness skill that lad has. He's Argentinian, which means that all English football lovers instantly hate him (ala hand of god / diego simeone france '98) and he doesn't play in our league so it's not like we can be bias. If anything we should be biased towards Rooney but I can just admire Messi's skill.

Better than Rooney.

[StefanWolves]

He's mesmeric every time he plays. It's not a fan boy when you can witness skill that lad has. He's Argentinian, which means that all English football lovers instantly hate him (ala hand of god / diego simeone france '98) and he doesn't play in our league so it's not like we can be bias. If anything we should be biased towards Rooney but I can just admire Messi's skill.

Better than Rooney.

wow someone else who speaks like he's a football pundit, your not. you can not say because messi has had a few good games on the trot that he is 'the best'. rooney has been playing phenomenal during the whole of this season, only time will tell who is 'the best', come the end of the season i still think it will be to close to call though.

btw you mention his 'skill', 'skill' doesn't earn you the right to be 'the best', goals does.

[Browney]

He's mesmeric every time he plays. It's not a fan boy when you can witness skill that lad has. He's Argentinian, which means that all English football lovers instantly hate him (ala hand of god / diego simeone france '98) and he doesn't play in our league so it's not like we can be bias. If anything we should be biased towards Rooney but I can just admire Messi's skill.

Better than Rooney.

I've never denied that, in another thread I think I said something along the lines of I appreciate Messi's skill, he is a great player, but when a player who is not on form still plays better than someone who's on top of their form either means the player below form is absolutely unreal or there's a certain bias. A bias from football fans from England to say a foreign player is better, to show they have some greater knowledge or something. I don't hate the lad. I do admit it will be unbelievably close, but I shouldn't think people should rule Rooney out yet at all.

[CHA!NGANG]

wow someone else who speaks like he's a football pundit, your not. you can not say because messi has had a few good games on the trot that he is 'the best'. rooney has been playing phenomenal during the whole of this season, only time will tell who is 'the best', come the end of the season i still think it will be to close to call though.

btw you mention his 'skill', 'skill' doesn't earn you the right to be 'the best', goals does.

So only strikers can be the best players in the world. There's no point in having the rest of the team then because they do nothing...

[TickTockTickTock]

wow someone else who speaks like he's a football pundit, your not. you can not say because messi has had a few good games on the trot that he is 'the best'. rooney has been playing phenomenal during the whole of this season, only time will tell who is 'the best', come the end of the season i still think it will be to close to call though.

btw you mention his 'skill', 'skill' doesn't earn you the right to be 'the best', goals does.

Incredibly fickle. Messi has been quality for around a year now, he was good before however the end of last season/start of this season he's been class. People say football is an art, in which case Messi is the Leonardo da Vinci of the game right now and he's not even peaked.

Goals earn you the right to be the best? Tell that to Cannavaro who has scored thirteen goals in his club career. Try telling that Terry a few years ago. Messi is a beautiful player. He loves the game, he plays it how it should be played. I'm in doubt Messi will be clinching the big 'en.

[AgnesIO]

Messi admits he's been sub-par this season.

If Messi can admit it, all you fan boys can.

Him saying he has been sub-par says nothing.

He is a uality player, who unlike many doesn't get above himself.

Rooney could say he has been crap this season - nobody apart from him would think it.

[Browney]

That is, in fact, Messi's response to his critics. Everyone over here is like OH MESSI but over there, people have been waking up, criticizing him about his lack to pass at times. Messi admitted that his critics may just have a point.

[CHA!NGANG]

Oh and Messi has 30 Goals this season and Rooney has 32 so Messi doesn't exactly have a bad return either, especially as he isn't an out and out striker anyway. Messi also has 9 assists whilst Rooney has 5. So based on your goal and assists theory Wolves, Messi would win it anyway and Messi has played 6 games less..

[Black_Apalachi]

I'm surprised it's even such a heated debate. Messi just surprises me every time I see him playing. If I ever went to the Nou Camp and watched him I'd probably think I was tripping or something! Rooney's an amazing player obviously, but he's no way as good as creating and making stuff happen out of nothing.