GOAT debate: Some of football's best players pick their favourite between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

#3 Kylian Mbappe

Mbappe

It is a fact well-known that Cristiano Ronaldo was Kylian Mbappe's childhood hero. As the French sensation has established himself as one of the best players over the years, his opinion on the GOAT debate has started to change -- somewhat.

The Paris Saint-Germain superstar had an interesting take when asked who he'd choose for his team. He said,

"If I had the choice between Messi and Ronaldo for my team? I'd retire and take both of them, to be sure that we win!"

He added,

"You don't have the right to denigrate one of these two monsters. To choose one would be an insult to everything that the other has achieved."

"When I was younger, I had fun comparing them both. From one year to the next, I changed [who he preferred], even though I admit to having defended Ronaldo more often."

"But now I'm grown up I'm less certain. There are the Barca followers who prefer [Johan] Cruyff and Messi. And there are others who will say that Ronaldo is the greatest athlete that football has known and won things wherever he went."