Leaving aside recency/nostalgia biases and club rivalries etc which Ronaldo was the better player at their best and which had the better career in terms of stats, trophies etc?
Cr7 gor more goals, won more trophies, champions leagues, played longer, more ballon doārs. But heāll never be as loved as Ronaldo by lads our age, cos heās a cock.
Younger folk think cr7 is a god.
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Hard to disagree with that. We didnāt see enough of R9 though would be my main issue. Iād say I saw him play about ten times in my life. We didnāt have sky in the 90s and fuck all of his games were on terrestrial TV plus he was injured an awful lot.
Cr7 made himself into the player he is today. He is a credit to himself how he got the utmost out of his talents.
Il Phenom was simply that, a phenomenon.
There is no debate.
R9 was a level above Ronaldo at his peak, but his peak was shorter, so in terms of longevity R7 wins I suppose. I would argue R9ās peak was even before he got to Madrid, he did well at Madrid but he already wasnāt the player he was. The fact that he changed his game and was still able to bang in goals shows what a player he was, he just lost a yard, then another one, then he became a yard. 98 WC Ronaldo before the final. That was 
Ronaldinho might have been better than both, but his window of magnificence was very short, first few seasons at Barca is it really. But he was insane in that time, he just didnāt give a fuck.
I suppose that is what puts C7 in the all time bracket, he wants it so much. Messi the same, supreme proās off the field in terms of looking after themselves. Absolutely hate to lose
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This performance, with his knee shot to shit and a shadow of the player he once was or could have been, but he was still phenomenal. His nickname was well earned.
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Two egomaniacs in the same era pushing one another. Weāll never again see the likes of two players going 50 odd goals a season ten years in a row.
At his peak, strength, pace, balance, dribbling, finishing an absolutely devastating assassin
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Thats it in a nutshell.
Ball at his feet facing goal, he was unstoppable.
Ronaldo was better, Cristiano Ronaldo was greater.
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CR7 is the greatest all round footballer of all time and its not even close.
He had that āwarriorā spirit.
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If heād stayed clear of injury, he could easily have been the best ever.
In term of talent, heād be a different level to Cristiano Ronaldo. Up there with Messi and Maradona.
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I think the debate between the Ronaldoās and where you come down on it, tells a lot about your soul.
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Swap āserial winnerā, ābest goalscorerā, or āstrongest mentalityā for footballer and youād have a strong case.
Ronaldo took the ball round the keeper for nearly 100 of his goals. You never see lads doing that now
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Probably the same chumps that prefer the brute force of Nadal to the grace of Federer
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They all new it was coming and could do nothing about it.
Did teams stop playing offside or something, Michael Owen was lethal for that as well
Proper strikers not only scored a lot, they made keepers look like mugs in the process.
Iām not sure whether the below has an effect on their overall standing but;
Brazilian Ronaldo was a team player and not a cunt who played with a smile on his face. CR7 is a selfish preening cunt who would rather score a hat trick in a loss than see his team mate do it in a win.
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You seem to struggle with the concept of TFK mate
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