festa5
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Yeah you would think that but it’s not always the case, players move clubs with varying degrees of success, there is a school of thought that Messi is less effective at International level due to the players around him not being at the same standard as those at Barcelona, would the physical demands week in week out of the Premier League or Bundesliga allow him to be as effective ? Now he probably would be but we don’t know. Another way to look at it is this, Messi is a racehorse and has only ran over a mile on fast ground at Ascot, but won every time he’s ran, even beating the racehorse Ronaldo when they met, but Ronaldo is a has shown top class form on a variety of surfaces, over a variety of distances over different courses in different countries, they’re both great but for different reasons.
Agree it's a question mark and although I think very unlikely Messi would struggle in those circumstances (particularly playing for the best team in a pretty weak serie A) we'll never know for sure.
However, it doesn't really help prove Ronaldo is the better player, which some people claim it does. All it proves is that he has been able to do it in 3 countries. Credit it to him. But unless Messi moves, we'll never know if he'd have been equally as successful or not.