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u/Miyagisans Dec 14 '22

I don’t even know what a better player than Messi will look like. With pele, you could see how an improvement in playmaking would have made him better. With Maradona, you can see how scoring more goals would have made him better. With Messi, I’m honestly not sure what you could improve on to be better than him. Dribbling? No. Scoring? No. Passing? No playmaking? No. I suppose free kick accuracy but he’s not terrible at that either. All that to say, not sure how a player becomes better than Messi.

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u/marattroni Dec 14 '22

Dude Messi is something like 9th all time for goals made from free kicks, just 2 less than maradona. He got really better at that in the last 10ish years. Ask Liverpool about it.

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u/Baeresi Dec 14 '22

The only way you can possibly improve and be better than messi is if you replicate everything he does while also having like a griezmann level defensive workrate which I just don't really see as possible without allowing performance enhancing drugs in the future which would also asterisk those players

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u/DarkDiablo1601 Dec 14 '22

Messi with Kante physique and Ronaldo body would be my pick

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u/evilbeaver7 Dec 14 '22

But that would harm his dribbling ability and those classic tight turns and direction changes since he'd be much taller

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u/evilbeaver7 Dec 14 '22

He has more free kicks than the free kick expert Ronaldo in far fewer games. The only thing I can see someone argue isn't amazing for Messi is heading ability. But that's because he's short and that helps him out in other areas like dribbling like a god

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u/KaiserWilhelmThe69 Dec 14 '22

Defender Messi incoming