Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before."

TheBiasedSportsLover@alien.top · 10 months ago

Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before."

DarthAlandas@alien.top · 10 months ago

Now that’s just plain bullshit. Pele for example revolutionized football far more than Messi. So did Cruyff. It’s impossible to measure how different football would be today if not for those two players, can you really say the same about Messi?

That is not to mean Messi wasn’t more successful than those two, he was definitely more successful than Cruyff, Pelé is debatable. But he was definitely not more influential.

Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before."

Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before."

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