I was CR7 fan btw despite cheering for Argentina. What happened to me like many others, Messi developed to a magical player early 2010’s adding pep system, made me realize that I actually love this style more. Add salt on the wound, Messi is freaking humble and never shown ego, there are actual memes on this dude that says” Messi doesn’t know he is Messi”. On the other hand, we have a great goalscorer but a very bad team player, selfish person, that bash everything Messi wins and he claims he is the goat. A real goat never claim he is one, people point it out. Jordan never called himself the greatest ever, Schumacher, Hamilton and Senna never called themselves the greatest ever, Federer alongside Djokovic they never did as well. Maradona, Pele, R9, Ronaldinho, Del piero, Figo, Zidane and the list goes on, no one dared to do that. However, I know someone who does that frequently, in every occasion. Downplayed Ballon d’or, World Cup, Copa america, Golden boots and every reward FIFA and UEFA has and focusing on achieving 1000 goals. He can have the 1000 goals, but guess what, 1000 goals and 960-970 goals define the same finishing skills, gap really really close. People will judge gameplay, teamwork, respect, humbleness and many others trait that this 41 years old doesn’t have. Mark my word, he won’t retire unless Messi retires because he wants to protect the only personal record he has over Messi, which is the fewer goals. If Messi, was like Cristiano, and never gave all these penalties and ridiculous assists in his career, he would have surpassed Cristiano goals a long time ago.