But I do think that when totting up trophies won there does need to be a weighted value to each of those trophies. A hierarchy if you like. When you look at those kinds of things I would personally say that a world cup is probably the most valuable*, a European cup (with country) would also be very high (as would its equivalents from South America or Africa or whatever). A CL - or its equivalent from other areas would be highly rated too of course.
It quickly gets very complicated cos winning the Champions League is a bigger achievement than winning the Asian Equivalent and so on so it would be difficult to weight those things fairly.
A league title is also worth a lot - but again it should count more to lift the Bundesliga than MLS and so on.
Without going into that in the necessary detail, I would put Ronaldo ahead cos of that extra Champions League victory and because of the Euro victory with Portugal (unless Messi has lifted the equivalent trophy with Argentina, something I may have missed) - I think those outweigh the extra league wins... although possibly one could argue that in Messi's case those leagues count extra cos they were competing directly against each other.
Also, there are the extra Ballon D'ors of course but - perhaps perversely - I was really thinking team trophies for some reason. That's just a gut feeling and I'm prepared to listen to arguments on that one.
But really my feeling is that their totals look something like this.
Major Intl trophies - Ron One, Messi None
CL or equivalent - Ron Fve, Messi Four
League Championships - Ronnie approx one million, Leo approx two million
Domestic cups - both in the billions I guess
And for me those top two lines (both of which could conceivably change yet) constitute a lead that can't be overcome simply by the minor trophies below, however large the difference on those lines.
Other factors that could be taken into consideration are the number of Ballon D'ors and also the number of times they have been top scorer in leagues or tournaments. Also some might want to make an issue of the fact that Ronaldo has lifted the league in England, Spain and Italy (which are undoubtably three of the top four leagues) and has won the CL with two teams from two countries. But again all this is just pissing around the edges of the main things.
*actually a strange one cos Champions League is the highest standard of football - and yet world cup winners medals are more elusive cos they only come round every four years and of course you can't build an invincible team with whoever you like in it in the way that is theoretically possible with club sides.