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Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? Jose Mourinho choses

Chelsea and Manchester United former boss Jose Mourinho was asked to settle the eternal Messi vs Ronaldo debate in his first television appearance since his Manchester United departure. Both Messi and Ronaldo have scored more than 600 goals in all competitions, with Messi leading the score tally in their 35 matches against each other - 16 goals for Messi and 10 for Ronaldo. On the other hand, Ronaldo is the Champion's League all-time top goalscorer while Messi is second. They have each claimed the Ballon d'Or five times, a 10 year duopoly that was recently ended (in 2018) by Luka Modric.
Weighing in on the Messi vs Ronaldo debate, Mourinho said:
"I think it’s unfair to both of them when somebody tells [says] ‘this one is better than the other one’. I think they’re just different.
"When I had Ronaldo on my side I was a very happy man. But when I had to play against Messi I had to think a lot to try and help my team to have chances to succeed.
"The thing to admire is the number of years that they’ve stayed at the top.
"You can have a boom and you appear like a hurricane but then you disappear. These two guys have been there for ten years and everything is about them I think until the moment they decide ‘enough is enough’ and other people can raise the bar."
Talking about his future as a football manager, the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager said, "I want to coach. I belong to top-level football and [that] is where I am going to be."
"I am too young, I am in football for a long, long time but I will be 56 in a couple of weeks and am really too young."

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