Ballon D'or 2021: Who wins it?

[Evilo]

Benzema 4th is a little disappointing, but he didn't win anything this year. But boy do his teams records owe to him.
Kante 5th and Jorginho 3rd are logical for those who value trophies.

 

[gary69]

Messi and Lewa left for 1st and 2nd.

 

[robertmac43]

I hope Lewa finally gets his moment here!

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I hope Lewa finally gets his moment here!

Shush

 

[robertmac43]

Shush

Honestly, if Messi wins, I'll be fine with that too.

 

[robertmac43]

And Messi takes it. Kind of nice to see him take it home the year he finally wins a Major with Argentina.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Suck it

 

[gary69]

Why is Luis Suarez there, as Messi's friend?

 

[gary69]

Nice from Messi to say that Lewa should have won it last year.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Why is Luis Suarez there, as Messi's friend?

Who’s gonna carry those massive balls?

 

[robertmac43]

Classy from the GOAT;

 

[gary69]

Who’s gonna carry those massive balls?

So he was there to hand over the trophy to Messi. If he new that beforehand, then Messi probably knew as well.

 

[Evilo]

Ballon d'Or winners are informed several days before the ceremony. Yes, Messi knew.

 

[AB13]

Who should Messi thank the most? Neal Maupay for injuring Bernd Leno.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Benzema 4th is a little disappointing, but he didn't win anything this year. But boy do his teams records owe to him.
Kante 5th and Jorginho 3rd are logical for those who value trophies.

Benzema not being at least 2nd is a f***ing joke. Tells you how you need to know about those awards.

 

[Evilo]

Debatable with Lewa IMO. Lewa better scorer, Benz better everything else.
But top 3 yes.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Respect to cr7 for including the amount of balon d’ors for Messi. Nice guy.

 

[robertmac43]

Who should Messi thank the most? Neal Maupay for injuring Bernd Leno.

Is the thought here that it pushed Emi to the prevalence and he had a great Copa or that Leno would have gone on to win?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Martinez should be higher

 

[Mount Suribachi]

Poor KDB. When he has a top season, he's barely top 10 in the BdO. When he has a down year with injuries and average performances, he's 8th. Better ranked than Mbappe

It's an incredibly hard award for England based players to win. Only been done twice in the last 50 years - Ronaldo in 07 and a bizarre Michael Owen win in 2001.

Kevin Keegan did win it twice...when he moved to Hamburg...

 

[Evilo]

It's an incredibly hard award for England based players to win. Only been done twice in the last 50 years - Ronaldo in 07 and a bizarre Michael Owen win in 2001.

Kevin Keegan did win it twice...when he moved to Hamburg...

Same with french.
Papin won it playing in OM, Weah won it as soon as he moved to Milan (spent half the year with PSG IIRC), Zidane won it abroad, Platini too. Don't think Messi's few months counted much here.

But my point was rather than KdB had a down year and had no business being top 10. However, in better years, he was ranked lower.

 

[AB13]

Is the thought here that it pushed Emi to the prevalence and he had a great Copa or that Leno would have gone on to win?

The bad PR ruined Maupay’s reputation and stopped him from winning the Ballon D’or a year later.

 

[TheLeastOfTheBunch]

Wow Jorginho was actually kinda’ close to winning this thing, wtf.

 

[Power Man]

Benzema 4th is a little disappointing, but he didn't win anything this year. But boy do his teams records owe to him.
Kante 5th and Jorginho 3rd are logical for those who value trophies.

Team accomplishments ≠ individual performance

You couldn’t ask more from Benz tbh
But Madrid still went to the CL semis if we have to take team success into account, and honestly I never thought Madrid would fo that far tbh

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Team accomplishments ≠ individual performance

You couldn’t ask more from Benz tbh
But Madrid still went to the CL semis if we have to take team success into account, and honestly I never thought Madrid would fo that far tbh

Zzzz I would’ve gave it to the best Algerian before him