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Happens that the criteria for Ballon D Or, or any award of that kind, have to be universal, and not specifically tailor-made for 'Barca Legends' Get a grip

There is no such combination of the two that gives always the results you want. You have to chose either of the two to be the decisive factor You say they changed it to not to always give it to Messi. Yet, in 2019, after they had changed it for that reason supposedly, they gave it to Messi and...

2021 was a strange season. Issue is that if you go by numbers and best player overall, you have to give it to Lewa If you go by important tittles, you have to give it to Joringho who won Euro and CL as pillar of both teams in the DM. At the end, they gave it to Messi for sentimental reasons...

Rivaldo actually carried barca a few years after that, when he was scoring scissors kick at the last moment against Valencia to secure UCL spot. On the contrary, the 1997-99 team under LVG was well drilled, and Rivaldo was not carrying anyone

La Liga is fine, but UTD won the treble. Can't be compared Also, I will write it again: people stop counting Copa America as an important trophy. Won by either Brazil or Argentina 95% of the times, and should not be a factor in Ballon D Or votes. Especially those years, when you had Copa...

- Beckham and Giggs were the best players of that UTD team. The ones that stood out - Messi was the best player in the world in 2010, sure. But Iniesta was top3 player in the world, won the same as Messi on club level, and scored the goal that gave his NT the World Cup. - Messi in 2021 did...

Rivaldo won jack shit though that season, while Beckham did the treble with United...

No, it always the same ambiguity: best player on the one hand, most valuable player for a team that won most important trophies on the other hand. If you see the list the last 60 years, the pendulum would always swing closer to one or the other side between years

Time to start this thread, with my yearly reminder: Most notorious Ballon D'Or robs in recent history: 1999: Beckham robbed 2000: Zidane robbed 2003: Henry robbed 2004: Deco robbed 2006: Ronaldinho robbed 2010: Iniesta robbed 2013: Ribery robbed 2016: Suarez robbed 2018: Salah robbed 2020 and...

Conspiracy theorist now?

Where are all the idiots now to tell us 'these are the rules' and all that crap? Whenever someone here writes anything about the spirit of the law he gets mobbed by braindead numpties. Same with the offside

And because he won the Golden Boy award last season, so he is ineligible to win it again

If you exclude Lamine, Doue is the best young player this season, hands down... No one else under-21 comes close, if you are even minimally objective

PSG' approach kills any team that tries to sit back like Inter last night. Patience, positional rotations, never losing possession, skillful dribblers and technicians, and you bet they will always carve open any defense that is passive They humiliated Liverpool in the 1st leg who also tried to...

You can't be more wrong than that. He is special. Top technique, glides past player, and can finish like a killer

Top notch player, top notch talent. The future is his Pitty we went for Olmo last summer, and not for him, available on the same or even less money.. Bad thing when you don't have proper SD

I think that number does not include only player salaries. The number I quoted is the total concerning the squad only

CApology, the most accurate source for these matters. Don't listen to some Scott dude

Yes. the two early goals totally destroyed Inzaghi's gameplan. He had prepared a deep bus (which is not ideal against PSG anyway, look at Liverpool first leg), and after 2-0 down that plan could not materialize. After that, Inter needed to press aggressively all over the pitch, something they...