Guardiola: Nobody can be compared to Messi and Ronaldo

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola thinks right now nobody can be compared to Messi and Ronaldo but hopes Raheem Sterling can reach their level in the future.

Pep Guardiola will help Raheem Sterling to be one of the world’s best and believes that he can be on the same level in the future as the footballing legends of this generation, Messi and Ronaldo.

Raheem Sterling helped Manchester City to win two successive Premier League titles and scored 35 goals himself. He has started this new season from where he left at the end of last season. Recently, he scored for England in their Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo.

Guardiola told the media about whether Sterling is on Messi and Ronaldo’s level: “Right now he is not in that level, I wish maybe in the future. It would be a dream for him, for all of us and for him, but right now these two guys the last decade have scored 50, 60 goals every season and I don’t know how many assists.
They have won the Ballon d’Or and all the individual prizes every single season, except maybe last season. So the consistency of these two guys – they are legends, they are something unique in world football. And if Raheem can target that level, wow.”

“We will be here to help him and of course he can do it, I will not be the guy to say don’t think about that. No, absolutely not, I want it. But right now, nobody, not in this club but in all the clubs in the world, nobody can compare to what they have done every single week for 10 years. They [Messi and Ronaldo] are absolute legends and nobody can compare, nobody.”

Guardiola further added: “I think with Brendan Rodgers in Liverpool, he played incredibly well, and with the national team he’s played incredibly well. So, I think his style, his desire, I think, the most I saw from the beginning is the fact he has an incredible mentality, he’s a winning player.
Before he made good actions but didn’t finish too much. And now he’s a player who can win games for himself.”

Sterling’s England manager Gareth Southgate has also praised his attitude and his desire to score more goals.

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