Legend Wayne Rooney makes comparisons between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi after Eden Hazard’s statement about “pure football”.
Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo only cares about scoring goals, while players like Lionel Messi want to play more on the field. The British legend’s comments came after Eden Hazard said he was better than Ronaldo in terms of pure football.
Rooney was recently asked by YouTubers Lyes Bouzidi and CultureCams about Hazard’s comments and he responded (via talkSPORT ):
“For example, Cristiano Ronaldo, his thoughts are goals. He doesn’t care about anything else, that’s the goal, that’s all he wants. While you look at Messi, he wants to play a little more football. I suppose that’s what Hazard is saying, he likes to play football – just like me.”
The former Man United striker added:
“I saw something Gery Neville said recently, that Sir Alex Ferguson always criticized me for dropping too deep, but it was because I wanted to play football. And I could have been a little more selfish and always top, and maybe score a few more goals, but I want to play and enjoy football. I want to enjoy the game and I imagine that’s what Hazard is about.”
Wayne Rooney had time to play with Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United before CR7 moved to Real Madrid in 2009. However, Rooney did not hesitate to praise Lionel Messi as the GOAT (greatest of all time), Not my old teammate.
Back in 2012, Rooney wrote on Twitter: “Messi is a joke. For me he is the best ever.”
More than a decade later, Rooney himself quoted the tweet to add: “Nothing has changed,” after watching Messi lead Argentina to the World Cup final at Qatar 2022 , before lifting the golden trophy. famous.
Rooney also repeatedly affirmed that supporting Messi is not an insult to Ronaldo, who has the ‘greatest respect’ but only admits that Messi is ‘different’.
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest players to ever appear in the sport of King. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner is the most prolific goalscorer of all time with 874 goals and contributed 249 assists in 1205 appearances for club and country. His scoring record is still slightly higher than that of Lionel Messi (821 goals and 361 assists in 1047 appearances).
Despite this, Hazard spoke to L’Equipe in early February that he was better than the Portuguese captain:
“Individually, Messi is probably the best. I loved watching him at Barcelona, but in the end less so, but Messi is the greatest in history. Can’t take the ball away from his feet there.”
“Cristiano Ronaldo is a bigger player than me but in terms of pure football, I honestly don’t think so. At Real, you have the best teammates: Benzema, Modric, they are the best, Kroos or Kevin De Bruyne all exude pure football.”
