Who would you pick in their prime

Zidane always gives the best finals

Prime Messi is the best player of all time

Zidane is far and away the most overrated player of all time

2007 kaka > 2011 Messi > 2013 Ronaldo > 2000 Zidane

Messi
Zidane
Kaka
Ronaldo (if I'm playing Crotone or Luxemburg)

Messi, could change things by himself

against Eibar...

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Zidane. Easily. Messi and Ronaldo are frauds when it comes to big games where they have been useless shitters, especially the midget. But hey, they can score hattricks against eibar and granada, at least.

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Messi is the only real answer

Clearly Messi and Zidane.

The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. Prime Kaka carried a shit Milan team. The others all played in stacked teams at their peak

whoever is whiter

If you don't pick prime Messi you are delusional

Messi carried through the Copa

>cafu pirlo stam maldini shevchenko seedorf

This dubs of truth for the win. Kaka was on another level entirely. Injuries brought him down and he did well for a couple of season in Madrid before more injuries. As for Messi, great player I got to see live but you would need a whole team built to play around Messi's style of play. People forget how Messi was at first a glass canon always being out due to injury in his early Barca days. The 2008–09 season was Messi being fully fit. As Messi was going up, Kaka went down. It would have been kino to see a fit Cristiano, Kaka and Messi battling out to be the best player on the planet across many more seasons.

Messi's prime was literally him scoring a brace every league match and a goal plus assist every CL match. Nobody really comes close.

>CL Final 1998
played like dog shit, well to be honest whole Juve team played like dog shit and i don't mean fucking highlights with all of his touches i mean watching the whole fucking game

>WC Final 98
Carries the win

>CL final 2002
>scores the best goal of all time

>WC final 2006
Most iconic moment in all football for his very last match after having carried the whole team through the finals

France got carried by the Ronaldo getting nerve-gassed

Kaka was good even after he left Madrid for the second AC Milan stint, he basically carried that team.

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Messi >>> Ronaldo >>>>>>> Kaka >>>>> Zidane

As players overall? Messi Kaka Zidane C. Ronaldo. To win championships? Messi>Kaka>C. Ronaldo>Zidane.

Oh, and I should add for a WC performance
Zidane>Messi>=Kaka>Ronaldo

Shows how much he loved Milan. He said he wanted to stay there long enough in the club like Maldini but Milan saw too much dollar signs with City's and Real's bid for him.

As American I even thought he was good in the MLS (something not hard to do since our league sucks) but I only brought up the early Madrid season because of OP's peak era which for me was before the surgery. Even after, He played well enough under Mourinho those few games.

>big game
>greatest big game
>get mad at shit talking and get red
kek not at all, I prefer Ronaldo or Messi over that hotheaded bald fraud

Messi

That might be Lippi's masterstroke of the game to go get Marco to say something to Zidane. Since he did coached him in Juventus who knows Lippi knew. Could have been the sister comment after all.

>WC Final 98
Carries the win that's true but who carried the whole french squad during that whole WC tournament ? Wasn't that rock solid defence ?! Desailly, Thuram, Lizarazu, Blanc plus 2 high-quality central midfielders with mostly defensive duties in Deschamps & Petit
People usually forget how good defensively France was during Zidane's generation, France had a defensive unit on par with Italy

Yes, Mourinho was a faggot and benched him too often too.

Ronaldo
Kaka
Zidane
still not picking Messhit

yeah being a creative player is the death if mourinho is ur coach

one of these men won everything that needs to be won in club and international.

Messi: Scores a shit ton of goals and also assists like crazy and created goal chance for everyone
Zidane:same as messi but with much less goals
C. Ronaldo: Insane goal scorer but he him self is a pace baby, needs a good offensive behind him
Kaka: Low budget Zidane
Messi has only lost a final in his whole carrer faggot

Sneijder and Deco worked out just fine

Messi
Ronnie
Kaka
Zizou

prime Kaka was Zidane and Messi in the same player

>Kaka and Zidane better overall players than prime Ronaldo

You people are insane, Zidane and Kaka themselves will admit it. In fact Zidane already did:

"Zidane’s initial response was to laugh, but then he explained how Ronaldo is “much” better than he was during his prime and the best in history.
“I was clearly better. I choose myself [laughs],” joked Zidane. “But seriously, there’s no comparison. You know that I think Cristiano is much better, he’s the best player in the history. Although I didn’t have a bad career myself.”

Also by prime i mean early-mid 10s, Not noodle hair ronaldo

Messi in 2012 was some beauty to behold

Kek based

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>>WC Final 98
>Carries the win
even though he did, I can't say a number 10 played good because he scored two headers from corners

Messi
Ronaldo
Kaka
Zidane

>>Kaka and Zidane better overall players than prime Ronaldo
You got that fucking right. Whe have you seen CP7 carry a team's offense without a great midfield behind him? Or win a WC? That's what Kaká and Zidane did. Now, since I did mention the winning trophies aspect and having an efficient and/or prolific goal scorer is part of that, so in terms of winning championships
Messi>Ronaldo>Zidane>=Kaká, unless that trophy is the World Cup.

Ronaldo is the top scorer of Euro+Worldcap in a nation that were subpar for half of his career and during all of his actual prime (2008-2014)

What Ronaldo achieved with Portugal is leaps ahead of what Zidane did with France (Eternal top 3 nation) or Kaka (Literally played in the most stacked NT of all time and wasn't even the second most important player there)

kaka, i would let him sleep with my wife.

> France (Eternal top 3 nation)
Wut? France was nohing before Zidane.

Obviously Messi.

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Messi > Zidane > CR7 > Kaka
Anyone who doesn't choose Messi or rate another player above him are deluding themselves.
2009-2012 Messi was an absolute monster of a player. It's kind of cliche to say this, but we will never see another player reach the level he had in that era.