FinBarcelonafan
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Looks similar spaghetti hair as he had in world cup
Adriano was the most complete forward I'd ever seen. It's very sad what happened to him. Could have been in GOAT tier
Zanetti: "Adri, you?re a mix of Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimović. Are you aware you could become the best player ever?? We did not succeed of pulling him out of depression."
Adriano was awesome, but revisionism make him seem better than he actually was. Don't think he was close to R9 talent-wise. R9 was a unicorn, like Messi.
Neymar vs Ronaldinho is a tough objective comparison if you take likeability out of the equation.
Dinho was an absolute favourite of mine and was much more than goals and assists (Neymar as well tbf) but in truth he only had one season that was slightly more effective than Neymar who also has longevity on his side.
Ronaldinho's two most productive seasons:
05/06
45 games
26 goals
24 assists
G/A every 78 minutes.
06/07
49 games
24 goals
14 assists
G/A every 112 minutes.
Neymar's two most productive seasons:
14/15
51 games
39 goals
10 assists
G/A every 83 minutes.
15/16
49 games
31 goals
25 assists
G/A every 79 minutes.
Andresito mentioned numbers.
Today rich teams are way richer and they have allstar teams.
In the past, there were 4-5 title contenders in each country.
Today you have Juve, Psg, Bayern winning 9 out 10 league titles, breaking records of wins and goals scored.
Roughly, let's say that in 90s, the difference between Juve/Psg/Barca and 13th placed team was 60:40 or 65:35.
Today it is closer to 80:20 or 90:10.
If I would make a list of top50 best individual goalscoring seasons, let's say Messi 2015, Messi 2018, Messi 012, R9 1997 etc, imo, out of 40-45 places out of top50, we would see players from the last 10 years.
I won't even mention Messi and Cr7.
But even Lewa, Suarez, Neymar, Benzema, Immobile have better or similar stats to prime Gerd Muller, Van Basten or Batistuta.
Neymar's league goals mean shit in a current stat-inflated era.
Also, CL wise, Muller and Van Basten played 3-4 CLs in their career and won 2-3 of them plus World cups or Euros.
Neymar will have 10 CL attempts, 4 attempts with Messi and 3 with MSN.
Yet, his stats are miles better than of all time greats like Van Basten and Muller.
Outside of a statpadding league records, the better indicator are CL titles and Wc/Euros/Copa Americas where the competition is similar to 70s or 90s.
About Ronaldinho being overrated: he won the WC aged 22.
And turned Barca who was worse than today into a machine after 6 Months.
And in the first season he was without Etoo, Deco, Messi, Guily, Larsson.
He played with finished Kluivert and Saviola.
Ronnie on his shoulders brought Barca to being the best club in Europe.
What has Neymar done?
1. 1 CL in 4 seasons with prime Messi (and still having Xavi, Busi, Iniesta, Dani).
2. going MIA each season in spring
3. winning 2 leagues in 4 seasons with Barca, lol.
4. doing more or less nothing with Psg and Brasil
5. rolling, diving, fighting with everyone
Putting Ronaldinho and Neymar in the same sentence is a blasphemy.