Lewandowski got 47 goal contributions and was placed a mere 12th in the ballondor.Harry Kane is tearing up the Bundesliga this season and last season got the 2nd most goals behind a certain Haaland that was robbed of a ballondor.
Lewandowski got 47 goal contributions and was placed a mere 12th in the ballondor.Harry Kane is tearing up the Bundesliga this season and last season got the 2nd most goals behind a certain Haaland that was robbed of a ballondor.
This year’s Ballon D’or was just based on sentimentality of “Messi finally won the big thing, his career is completed, so let’s just give it to him.” I know that goals shouldn’t be the only thing that matters for an award like the Ballon D’or, but Haaland’s had a beast of a season. Love Messi, but last season, he paled compared to Haaland or even Mbappe for that matter.
It’s always the FIFA Men’s best player of the year that gets it right, doesn’t it?
Exact same thing happened in the Premier League when Giggs won player of the year in 2009.
He some how won the award and only started league 12 games, and definitely was not the best player that season.
It was clearly a ‘he’s been top quality for a long time but never the best’ pity award.
No denying he was very very good for a long time but he didn’t deserve the award in 2009.
The goal contributions were not far apart, and Messi won the world cup as a captain and absolute protagonist. Haaland scores a shit ton of goals but he wasn’t even the most important player of city. I do agree that Messi should have won it less then 8 times, but this year it’s absolutely justified