That's where your theory came from. For years Ronaldo fans have been saying that Messi has to play in other leagues to prove his might, just like Ronaldo.

Dude just no, how you even came up with this is beyond me seriously, Ronaldo playing in different leagues doesn't even come close to what you said in your post about him going to Southampton. You literally posted something so random it's down to you alone as it makes no sense in any context in regards to any post in this thread from any user.

When people bring up playing in different leagues they're debating on whether the player has the ability to be a player who can be part of any jigsaw puzzle or a player who requires a specific jigsaw puzzle to that they can fit into. Ronaldo in this case for a lot of people did it in two leagues while influencing Portugal to runners up, a Euro semi finals and a WC semis, it's nothing against Messi's ability as he's a different type of player anyway but a good amount of people prefer Ronaldo because of the analogy above he fits into any puzzle due to the type of player he is (him scoring in 4 different Euros is a reference to this), Messi shines well when the puzzle suits him.

Ironically the diferent type of ability of these two players would make them the perfect attack partnership as they can cover eachothers flaws.

You must live in your own world if you didn't know that Ronaldo fans use your premise to question Messi's ability.

I don't care about fanboys/girls of either player because no one here is questioning their ability your problem here is you're bringing in outside arguments that have nothing to do with the context of what's said here so your replies are random as hell.

I don't think that is the case, South Americans value Copa América a lot.

The 2007 one doesn't strike Messi hard since he was still young and that Brazil was unstopable, but the 2011 one in Argentina and the final he couldn't win last year did hit hard in his legacy. Masche said it hurt more to lose Copa América final than the world cup one. 

I could argue that yours are the random ones.

Yeah, I know, but for me Copa is nothing more than just consolation, while Euro is on par with World Cup. After watching yesterday's game I really can't value Copa on par with Euro. Even granted that this Euro is worse than previous ones, since they added more teams and lowered the overall level. Still, Chile - Colombia was... arrghh. The complete lack of discipline, carelessness, freestyle defence, the refereeing - it's just not the same. No wonder that only one team from outside of Europe has won a medal in the last 3 World Cups (2nd place Argentina). I have no idea how it is that these players play top level in European clubs, but once they go play for the national teams, they go crazy like that.

@all the people who say it's a team sport - sure, but Messi is no Gheorghe Hagi or Christo Stoiczkow, who were incredible players, but had nobody to play with on their teams. Messi is great and has a badass team of prime talents around him. We have to expect his team finishing the way they did in the last World Cup and always being at the very top. There are no excuses for his earlier underachievements (cause 2nd place at WC is a great achievement). He has a great team and should be able to carry them to the top.

Yeah, I know, but for me Copa is nothing more than just consolation, while Euro is on par with World Cup. After watching yesterday's game I really can't value Copa on par with Euro. Even granted that this Euro is worse than previous ones, since they added more teams and lowered the overall level. Still, Chile - Colombia was... arrghh. The complete lack of discipline, carelessness, freestyle defence, the refereeing - it's just not the same. No wonder that only one team from outside of Europe has won a medal in the last 3 World Cups (2nd place Argentina). I have no idea how it is that these players play top level in European clubs, but once they go play for the national teams, they go crazy like that.

@all the people who say it's a team sport - sure, but Messi is no Gheorghe Hagi or Christo Stoiczkow, who were incredible players, but had nobody to play with on their teams. Messi is great and has a badass team of prime talents around him. We have to expect his team finishing the way they did in the last World Cup and always being at the very top. There are no excuses for his earlier underachievements (cause 2nd place at WC is a great achievement). He has a great team and should be able to carry them to the top.

Man, all conmebol teams except for Ecuador made it out of their groups in the world cup. Uruguay kicked out Italy and England, Chile did it with euro and worldcup champions spain. In the round of 16 Brazil beat Chile and Colombia did it with Uruguay, then Brazil beat Colombia. Besides, the last 3 confederations cup have been won by Brazil.

Fifa rankings don't mean much but there you have that half the top 10 are conmebol teams.

I agree that Copa América is on a lower step than euro, but euro isn't on par with the world cup if you are missing conmebol teams and all those great players (at least 3 of the top 5)