Where’s Mudryk?
Well, it certainly was not a surprise, was it?
Surprise? No.
The wrong decision? Yes.
The world cup needs to have a separate award because Haaland could not do more to deserve the award except be born from a more prominent footballing nation.
Let’s give this on to haaland and strip Modric of the one he won. By your logic Messi would still end up with 8 balón d or.
Why would Messi win the ballon d’or in the year Modric won?
Modric won, not just because he had good performances, but Madrid won the UCL and Croatia reached the final.
Messi may have been ‘better’, but his teams did not do well in the UCL or World Cup. Knocked out in UCL and World Cup in the Quarter Finals.
I think he also needs to have a significantly better season than his competition. Not marginally.
Messi had comparable XGI. And just like Haanland, he also won the league.
It’s the rest of the trophies that made the difference.
Every other year you’d be as well calling it the award for best player in the team that won the champions league
It’s almost like this whole thing is just a soccer circle jerk.
I disagree. It’s not so much winning the World Cup as how he won it. Losing to Saudis game one. What a comeback. He is a complete player who inspired his entire team to be their absolute best. El Capitan.
Haaland is not a complete player. I know he scored goals but he just happens to be a huge dude who runs forward and his teammates give him amazing assists.
Messi is very much a complete player. The goals. The assists. The dribbling. The leadership. The inspiration. Which can you name?
Very much the right decision. The others will get their turn.
I think Messi deserved it. It’s not just being a participant for being a world cup winner but the manner in which he won it. The leadership, the dribbling, the playmaking, the heart. If anything came short Argentina would have lost. He had that much pressure on him
They have. Golden ball and silver ball.
Born in fucking Leeds, United Kingdom
love the tears
deserved, cry
Rodri deserved to be higher, won everything this year for club and country that wasn’t the WC.
Higher than who though?
An MLS player has won Ballon D’Or, and people say it is a farmers league
In the US we subsidize ballon d’or’s as much as we subsidize corn.
French newspaper that votes. Not exactly the biggest fans of the EPL. Especially with Beckham throwing his Qatar money at them
An legend that played his entire career in Europe moved to MLS for a payday… can’t take the credit there.
Unsurprising. If Messi had the season that Haaland had and Haaland had the season that Messi had, Messi would’ve won it. If Messi had the season that Mbappe had and Mbappe had the season that Messi had, Messi would’ve won it.
5 out of the top 10 are Man City, that’s mad.
You think they could repeat a full top three? Mbappe needs a stinker of a season though. And Real pr can get Nacho as a contender if they feel like it.
Finally Fabrizio Romano can rest
James Milner should’ve won it
Its silly that if you win the World Cup. You are automatically vaulted to the top of the list. Haaland broke records and was unstoppable
Where’s Ryan Yates?!?!?
Haaland robbed, can’t convince me otherwise.
city cheats in shambles 🤣
Suprisse Bernardo isn’t on that list?