By constantly riding this goat on this and goat on that questions, the media imo are stirring only some hysteria among hyper defensive and sensitive fans. Even long time writers like Bodo or Flink (who is indeed a true expert) are discussing this clay goat thing to death. A matchup Nadal-Borg is and will remain pure speculation. Probably Nadal has more clay titles, but maybe he hasn't met a true clay court great (outside Federer), maybe Borg would have lost to a new crop of clay courters, if he had stayed longer. Who knows?
What disturbes me a bit, is, that within this media hysteria nobody writes a reasonable article about the real state of clay court tennis at the moment. How can it be, that a player like Nadal (a dominant champion undoubtedly) can go through a whole clay season with only two final losses to the same guy, that he reaches the RG final with losing only two tie break sets first round - and that all while playing only at 60-70% of his capacity, which no other than Jim Courier remarked. Or that a proven hard court player on a hot streak, but with no specific clay results so far like Djokovic, can go like a knife through hot butter through all clay fields. Or that a good, but a bit declining clay courter like Federer doesn't lose a set at RG before semis. In other years, even the best clay courters and eventual champions like Lendl, Wilander, Muster or Kuerten had to fight hard to get to the later rounds at Paris. Now it seems a cakewalk. Imo, there must be a lack of good second row clay courters at the moment. Del Potro has shown, that a good clay courter, even not 100% match fit, can challenge a hot player like Djokovic.