ESPN FC’s Craig Burley gives his first reaction to Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami debut after returning from a three-week holiday before Shaka Hislop and Stewart Robson test his knowledge on current events.
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I have never seen this much hype for a finished player who's playing McDonald's league lmfao as it's like he's scoring screamers against bayern in champions League semis lol.
I have already said it and will say it one more time
"LIONEL MESSI IS THE MOST OVERRATED PLAYER OF ALL TIME" period.
If the saying “too cool for school” was a person.
Go Messi 🙂
Happy to see Shaka doing better!
Bruh why that dude even on the show? He doesn't have any football knowledge and doesn't have any interest in it's like why dude like that given comments and opinions football there? 💀🗿
Anybody else notice Robbo comes across as a cockney Ernst Blofeld?
I like how Craig just comes back and dosent care about what’s gone on for the last 3 weeks 😂😂😂
American don't care about Arsenal.
Messi will improve MLS . Other team will now find a way team to improve their team. Remember USA 🇺🇸 is a co-host in the 2026 World Cup.n
Well the Anti Messi crowd…
Well MLS is based on entertainment , not competition so all is well
Craig is back. Mr Brightside
craig comes back and immediately derails the entire show
who cares Craig Burley thinks ????
they should fire Craig, too grouchy
The Mls is where it's at now.
Who's this guy???.. He doesn't know football, he doesn't know Messi!!!.. He doesn't know 💩💩💩!!!…. Just running his mouth but doesn't know anything!!..
Craig🤦🏽♂️ you wonder why Shaka gets stressed out 😂😂😂
I hope you stay away forever
Nothing special about Messi cos MLS isn't tough or competitive country rather they're the lowest across the whole world.
Messi League Soccer
I have tickets for when Miami play at Chicago on October 4th. It’s a midweek game. Miami play 3 games that week(possibly 5 games in 14 days if they make the US Open Cup final). More often than not, starters rarely play midweek in MLS. There’s an American football game at the stadium 3 days prior to the Miami game so I’m not sure how well the grass(it’s grass, not turf) will be by Wednesday. There’s also an international break the following week, so he may be called up for that. Would Messi even play? Obviously lots of time between now & then but I’m a little nervous that he won’t play.
I’m Scottish but this guy is one of the most negative pundits going. Need to cheers up!
Messy Midget's arrival to & eventual departure from the MLS will not change the following two facts:
1) MLS is one of the worst football leagues in the entire solar system
2) football will always be "soccer" in Amerikkka
Craig jst doing for trp 🌚
If Craig doesn't care, then why is he here?
Who is Craig?
One Goat is playing against transgender and the other GOAT 🐐 is playing against Top Men if you know you know 😂
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Here we go, burley bak & trying his best 2 impress kaye as usual, the last 3wks have been great without burley, each pundit got there fair share of airtime, now burley bak it's all about me me me, 1 day he'll get in kaye's pants
So good to see Shaka back.
When the viewers like to watch for a laugh but the one is talking becomes a clown , cause the reality is on the field .and it’s real not funny .
Why would you trash inter miami like this?
You're not even trashing them in a professional way. ( garbage!! And some of your scottish vocab!!)
I hope you wake up
MiM
It's time to retire these pundits. Instead of looking at the positive side of things and trying to generate some hype for the viewers, they just make you depressed and want to stop watching.
Craig gets paid to intentionally be hated but I missed his pessimism weirdly
If I was a defender facing Messi I would be hesitant to go in for a full challenge because I wouldn’t want to have some freak injury happen to him than everybody blames me for being the guy that made the goat retire. That has to be going through the heads of some of the opposition teams players!!
Craig Burley
Personal information
Full name Craig William Burley[1]
Date of birth 24 September 1971 (age 51)[1]
Place of birth Ayr,[1] Scotland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder[1]
Youth career
Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1997 Chelsea 113 (7)
1997–1999 Celtic 64 (20)
1999–2003 Derby County 73 (10)
2003 Dundee 2 (0)
2004 Preston North End 4 (0)
2004 Walsall 5 (0)
Total 261 (37)
International career
1992–1993 Scotland U21[3] 7 (0)
1995–2003 Scotland 46 (3)
Well that was pointless
you were cryin when Saudi League bought some of Europe best players! but you said nothing about USA buying The best player in history and one of the best Mid fielders in history and one of the best LB and Suarez might join too!! bunch a ffckking hypocrit islamophobess