Pelé: "Right now we have Messi and Ronaldo at the top, but tell me three or four more names? You can’t. We need more players challenging those two, because in this moment we don’t have any."

As much as i agree with you but comparing Stats of Kaka with man who is always in box and receive 5-6 key passes of goal scoring opportunity is absurd.Luis Suarez has shown one thing,if a top Striker get supply of world class player in this era and he's main man,50 plus goal a season can be repeated.World of football has changed a lot in last 10 years,most of world class players are concentrated in 4-5 teams,mismatch between elite and other teams hace grown wider exponentially.People say cl is the football of highest order now,really?what's highest quality football about a team as good as RM ,Barca destroying Malmo,shakhtar etc.Most of the matches till qf or even till semi final are big mismatch.Even a historical team like Juventus have to park bus to have any chances against these few super teams.Is it football of highest order?i don't think so.in my opinion world cup and international cup will be better metric to judge true greatness of players where world class players are better dispersed and a world class player may not have a best possible support to put on those numbers .Even if Suarez had played in Elite team for years,he would've put on those astronomical numbers.My question is Are Ronaldo and Messi even putting half of those numbers with country they put on with their super club in a club era of mismatch of highest order.I won't put Ronaldo in goat debate thanks to his outrageous amount of one touch goals for Madrid.It's around 70 percent,he hasn't done anything in 3 wcup .Just scored 3 goals in 3 wcup,why does their number dry up when they play for country?that has to do with supply they enjoy at their Super Club in an era where there's greatest mismatch of quality of teams.At the same time Messi has no shot at GOAT untill he shows a dominant wc,i'm not even asking him to win wcup.if Goals were a metric in goat debate,noone would beat Muller. Football was always an art and will always be an art scoring 70 perent first touch goals in supper elite team in an era where wc players are concentrated in 5-6 teams and mismatch is huge don't make you a GOAT candidate.

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