[dfwgator]

Lionel Messi, easily the greatest player of all time.

I like Messi, but greatest of all time? That's a stretch. Especially since he has yet to do squat for Argentina.

Cruyff is stil the greatest player of all-time, he literally revolutionized the game.

[safeasthebanks]

Its Maradona for me, although clearly a total idiot off the field.

[bramps]

Just for chuckles I went to 2 search engines and typed in, “who's better, Messi or..

that's as far I as got because both engines volunteered between 4 and 8 possible opponents. Cryuff wasn't one of them. And they all (Ronaldo, Maradona, Rooney, Pele, etc. were given 2nd fiddle to Messi when you checked the articles.

I then did the same thing using Cryuff instead of Messi.
I was able to type in the entire question and still no suggestions were given even after I hit search.

Normally I take pride in walking to the beat of my own drummer but this time, based on seeing most Barca games over the past few years, I'm comfortable falling in line.
Messi almost always does something exciting every time he touches the ball. You can see the panic in his opponents eyes as they try to deal with him.