Just looking above at those Ronaldo twitter bots above, It annoys me how Ronaldo rides Messi's coattails. He is like a parasite feeding on Messi. 'Football will never reach these heights again'...yeah that is because of Messi, not Ronaldo. Ronaldo is far closer to whoever is deemed to the third best player of the era than he is to Messi.
I am only bringing it up because I read it above. It frankly bemuses me how people cannot see Messi's general performances OUTSIDE OF GOALS piss all over anything this guy can muster. It's a serious insult to Messi to compare this guy to him favourably.
People say he's unlucky to play in Messi's era - I think it's the inverse. The fact he keeps up with Messi statistically makes clueless fans think he has near-parity with Messi, so if Messi is top 3 ever, Ronaldo must be top 5 minimum. I even seen that Sporting inbred make this point on Redcafe and pointed it out to him - he was using Messi as someone for Ronaldo to ride on.
Ronaldo's a leech. He piggybacks on Messi's vastly superior genius.