Gerard Pique has chosen Lionel Messi over his old Manchester United colleague Cristiano Ronaldo in the GOAT (greatest of all time) debate.
Pique joined United from Barcelona in 2004, a year after Ronaldo had arrived from Portugal and the pair spent four years together at the club before the Spaniard returned to Barca in 2008. They played together in just 15 matches under Sir Alex Ferguson but featured against each other more than twice as often for club and country in the ensuing years.
As Barcelona and Real Madrid were competing with one another for every trophy domestically and in the Champions League during that time, Pique could rely on the presence of Messi at the opposite end of the pitch, featuring more than 500 times together before the Argentine rather reluctantly left the club to join Paris Saint-Germain in 2021.
