You‘ve just proved here why I’ve said it’s a complete lie. You are purposedly taking this completely out of context. I was comparing this example to a five a side competition comment from the original poster quoted from below in a joking manner, instead of making a case of it “being good enough”. Thats basically my whole point of comparing. Heres the original post:
if we're disregarding the level of competition you can add me to that list. I've scored a fair few in my five a side recently.
That’s quite a stretch. Those are still top division/best league in Asia, in a country regular qualifies for WC, and also manage to produce club reaching 2nd place this year in world club cup, beating the best club from South America. But true it’s nowhere near the level of Europe’s top 5 league, not even close. But it’s still much closer to that level than your five a side competition.
you are joking, right?
Well last year this time some were still convinced he was gonna be playing at top level all the way into his 40s
Nail on the head. End of the day we can all love Ronaldo for his career but this end is quite simply a bit of a farce.
I see what you did there. First you are agreeing Ronaldo being a bit of a farce during his late career, then you are simply stating he is a modern day Pele, which somehow lead to conclusion of Maradona being better.
You’ve gotta keep adding some fire to that argument sometimes on the sly. Messi is a bit like Maradona too while we are at it…
Who are the young Portuguese strikers he’s keeping out?
That’s even crazier than when Celtic and rangers fans used to say they’d finish top 6 in the PL
Ramos for instance (or even Silva), or anyone who are in the future plans for Portugal. Playing a 38 year old over future options in matches you will win comfortably no matter who you start up top, serves only one purpose: Let the old man feed his ego and break those records.
They basically have two strikers at the minute with Ronaldo being one. Silva isn’t close to being good enough just yet.
He’s been constantly scoring in qualifiers for the last few years, there’s a lot more examples of those two teams that Portugal faces in competitive games than not.
There is no way Martinez will bench him, he hasn`t got the balls and it will end up getting him sacked. As others have said on here by playing him now Portugal are missing out on giving game time to younger players and a chance for them to gel, improve and learn a new system before they meet tougher opposition in the Euros. Martinez will see how difficult Ronaldo and his ego is to manage when he realises he needs to drop him and it could well be too late by then and Ronnie will probably do an interview with Piers and harp on about all his goals against Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. It is all good for Portugals future opponents though as Ronnies selfishness doesn`t help them.
I think it can be argued both ways. Even without counting his 4 goals and motm contributions in the 2 qualifying games, with Ronaldo extending his all time record with Portugal, it might also lift the spirit of the whole squad, and make the whole nation pride. After all, the record breaker does represent their country, and international competitions is all about giving pride to the country.
Post of the year here
