Mike Dean wrote:He is a coward.
Always taking the easy way out.
He will need to show me that he can what Maradona did with Napoli for me to even consider ranking him above Maradona.
But he will never take that challenge.
He won't because he doesn't live in the '80s. Maradona had the career he had with all the limitations of that time: football was not as lucrative or global, nutrition and training methods were different, scouting methods were rougher. Had his career been in the 2000s like Messi's, it wouldn't have been the same, because the circumstances would be different.
You don't see anybody saying "Maradona's a cokehead, he'd never have Ronaldo's longevity", do you? No, because Maradona has his own legacy and is judged by the standards of the time that he played in.