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https://www.givemesport.com/1481772...ble-past-virgil-van-dijk-in-the-201819-seasonI think you don't know what the word literally means.
I'll take that apology in Starbucks gift cards.
https://www.givemesport.com/1481772...ble-past-virgil-van-dijk-in-the-201819-seasonI think you don't know what the word literally means.
It was a stupid "stat" back then, it's as stupid now. He obviously wasn't "not dribbled past" that season, which you'd know if you'd watched games. Which judging by your posts, you probably don't much.https://www.givemesport.com/1481772...ble-past-virgil-van-dijk-in-the-201819-season
I'll take that apology in Starbucks gift cards.
I don't understand what it is you don't understand If the award doesn't reflect the reality of the last two years, it undermines its legitimacy more than if it wouldn't reflect only half a year. The longer the lie is sustained, the worse it gets.
Well, Messi wouldn't be in my top5 so I guess I'm one of those people. I think he played very similar season to CR7, so he should be around the same place.
That's exactly the argument though - that it's a popularity contest. You just confirmed it, so we're in agreement then. I'm completely fine with Messi winning the award as long as it is universally acknowledged that the award is not about merit, but about popularity. I'm not giving anybody an award based on merit for scoring against Ecuador and Bolivia.
I'm suddenly much more okay with Messi winning.
So now 2012 was also undeserved.
why stop there. 2009 Iniesta should have won, as he scored against Chelsea, without him, Man Utd would have second in a row. Even Rooney said Iniesta was the best player in the final.
2011: Xavi should have won, as without him Barcelona couldn't have controlled the midfield. Even Cristiano had more goals than Messi.
2015: Neymar had a great season scoring 10 goals in the UCL, also scored in the final.
So Messi has actually won no deserving Ballon D'or. Fraud.
I wonder those laughing at Sneijder's claim to 2010 ballon d'or realise that if Fifa hadn't gobbled up the ballon d'or and the voting had been done only by the journalists and not by National team captains and coaches, then Sneijder would have finished first and Messi 4th behind Xavi and Iniesta. While I agree he was ridiculously good in the league, how can people forget he had a poor WC, and got knocked out by Sneijder's Inter who won the treble.
I get that Sneijder had a brilliant 2010, but there's no way he was better that year than Messi. Even Xavi and Iniesta was better players that year than Sneijder. But why the big outrage about 2010, didn't Ribery win the treble in 2013 when Ronaldo won nothing and yet Ronaldo won the Balon D'Or? As for this year - this is the prize for 2021, not for the past two years, and Messi was the best player in the world until July this year. He's had a quiet start at PSG but the Balon D'Or is hardly decided on the form the first few months after the summer.
If we're gonna judge on purely performances, Messi shouldn't have won this year. Whether Xavi and Iniesta had a better year than Snejder is very, very debatable. When they met in the CL Snejder was better and kicked them out. Messi was also quiet as a mouse in that match. And yes, Ribbery was robbed, but so was Ronaldo in 2018, so that evens it out. When was Messi ever robbed? There's a few Ballon D'ors that he has now that are very debatable and I generally don't care about the Ronaldo vs Messi debate, it's not about that.I get that Sneijder had a brilliant 2010, but there's no way he was better that year than Messi. Even Xavi and Iniesta was better players that year than Sneijder. But why the big outrage about 2010, didn't Ribery win the treble in 2013 when Ronaldo won nothing and yet Ronaldo won the Balon D'Or? As for this year - this is the prize for 2021, not for the past two years, and Messi was the best player in the world until July this year. He's had a quiet start at PSG but the Balon D'Or is hardly decided on the form the first few months after the summer.
It's pointless debating with anyone who doesn't even think Messi deserved to be top 5, in fairness.Best forward in La Liga + MVP in Copa + MVP in Copa Del Rey Final + La Liga top goal scorer + Copa most assists + most MOTM awards and significantly better playmaking stats, all with an inferior Barca in a superior La Liga. VS best forward in Bundesliga + top goal scorer in 1-team league Bundesliga..
What is your merit criteria? statpadding against Augsburg or Frankfurt in inferior Bundesliga?
The way Ronaldo fans are talking, one would think Lewa won the CL & had an amazing, unforgettable Euros and yet the award was given to Messi, looks pathetic tbh.. It seems like delegitimizing Ballon D'or is the next best strategy for Ronaldo & his fans now that it became clear that he would never equal or surpass Messi on that front..
I agree but they really need to change the format. Either it should be for 2020/2021 season and summer, or the voting should close in the end of december.
Or people accept that it is from October to October? It's not as if it changes anything.
If we're gonna judge on purely performances, Messi shouldn't have won this year. Whether Xavi and Iniesta had a better year than Snejder is very, very debatable. When they met in the CL Snejder was better and kicked them out. Messi was also quiet as a mouse in that match. And yes, Ribbery was robbed, but so was Ronaldo in 2018, so that evens it out. When was Messi ever robbed? There's a few Ballon D'ors that he has now that are very debatable and I generally don't care about the Ronaldo vs Messi debate, it's not about that.
Its supposed be for the calendar year.
I'm enjoying the bitterness, the moans, the laments and the crying more than the award, please do not stop
FactosFactos
Who was by far clearly better than Messi in 2019?2019 and 2021 are an absolutely disgrace, as there was clearly better players than him by far.
I struggle to remember which big games Lewa turned up for in 2021. Yes, he was there to slay and set goalscoring records against the mighty Hertha and Union Berlin but at the same time his team embarrassingly finished bottom of a group that had Slovakia and Sweden in the Euros.
Messi was setting records with Argentina and producing an iconic tournament performance in the Copa America and Copa del rey final.
I personally don't get the clamouring for Lewandowski. Great player but scoring 40 goals in the Bundesliga for a dominant Bayern team isn't really impressive, Sancho got close to 20 goals 2 years ago and he struggles to buy a goal in the league for us. Bayern got dumped out of the CL, so it's only really the Bundesliga you're falling back on. The case for Lewa really is for the previous year, but in this one there's nothing particularly impressive about what Lewa did.
It was a stupid "stat" back then, it's as stupid now. He obviously wasn't "not dribbled past" that season, which you'd know if you'd watched games. Which judging by your posts, you probably don't much.
For you as a bias, maybe Messi was the greatest player to watch, for many more, it simple wasn't.
This ain't a contest who scored the most goal at the end of the day, there is a award for that.
You should look at the overall contribution, as you may score useless craps of goals against a wide open teams, that gives you nothing at the end of the day, and totally blew up in the important matches.
And yeah you can make a case that Ronaldo doesn't deserve it in 2013, but 2018 was a straight up robbery with the alleged rape fiasco that was obviously a set up to cost him the award, cause he was going to get in front of Messi.
It's quite an obvious at this point, that Messi is the media lover, and it's a huge propaganda him being the GOAT, and Ronaldo be the bad guy always. And after a few bad peformance they shredded him.
Yet Messi is a total waste in his new club, but there is almost no talk about it in the media. Oh, but he needs time, oh but it's a new league, new team, injury and all that nonses.
Yet Ronaldo has 1 bad match and everyone in the media is destroying him with b.c.
And at the end of the day this is about opinion. There is no way in hell Messi deserved the Golden Ball in 2010 more than Sneijder.
Best player in the CL by far, best player in Serie A by far, and pretty much best player in the whole WC by far.
And again Messi get trashed in the CL exactly by Inter, and Sneijder scored a goal, and Messi was invisible. Messi was trashed in the World Cup 4-0.
Anyway Sneijder showed up in pretty much every important match, and was clearly the leader both for Inter and Netherlands. He play a great final and give Robben a huge passing ball lead him 1 on 1 with the GK as well. Still that treble should have been enough, even if Netherlands didn't get out of the group stage, yet they end up in the final, and only Robben misses and referee, who didn't show a clear red to Puyol for being the last defender and commit a clear foul against Robben who beat him and was going 1 on 1 with the GK cost him the title. Still a new user, and can't post a media, but everyone can search the final and see it with their own eyes.
In 2013 there wasn't anyone who was in front in Bayern team, and i still think that some of their players should have won it.
I made a quite clear arguments why he shouldn't won it 2012, he missed a huge important penalty that decided the match against poor 10 man Clesea side, he was also invisible in both matches. He get trashed by Ronaldo's Real Madrid that won the league, he won Copa, that noone cares(except for biased Messi fan).
How dumb will sound if i say X guy in England should won, cause he won FA Cup, yet get trashed in CL and so ???
2019 and 2021 are an absolutely disgrace, as there was clearly better players than him by far. Copa is a junk tournament that has no qualifiers or any rules at all, you get 5 junk teams in 1 group, and 4 of them qualify for the next phase, which alone is a complete joke.
On top of that in the last 6 years that tournament has 4 appereance in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, which is an absolutely joke. Obviously they was going to make it, until Mesi won it eventually. It's quite clear at this point.
And don't let me start it with 2009, as they were gonna be out of the CL if it wasn't for UEFA/referee help in one of the biggest robbery in the history in the CL against Chelsea.
In the end of the day this is my opinion, and in no way in hell he deserved the ball in 2010, 2012, 2019, 2021. 4 gifted one.
For you as a bias, maybe Messi was the greatest player to watch, for many more, it simple wasn't.
This ain't a contest who scored the most goal at the end of the day, there is a award for that.
You should look at the overall contribution, as you may score useless craps of goals against a wide open teams, that gives you nothing at the end of the day, and totally blew up in the important matches.
And yeah you can make a case that Ronaldo doesn't deserve it in 2013, but 2018 was a straight up robbery with the alleged rape fiasco that was obviously a set up to cost him the award, cause he was going to get in front of Messi.
It's quite an obvious at this point, that Messi is the media lover, and it's a huge propaganda him being the GOAT, and Ronaldo be the bad guy always. And after a few bad peformance they shredded him.
Yet Messi is a total waste in his new club, but there is almost no talk about it in the media. Oh, but he needs time, oh but it's a new league, new team, injury and all that nonses.
Yet Ronaldo has 1 bad match and everyone in the media is destroying him with b.c.
And at the end of the day this is about opinion. There is no way in hell Messi deserved the Golden Ball in 2010 more than Sneijder.
Best player in the CL by far, best player in Serie A by far, and pretty much best player in the whole WC by far.
And again Messi get trashed in the CL exactly by Inter, and Sneijder scored a goal, and Messi was invisible. Messi was trashed in the World Cup 4-0.
Anyway Sneijder showed up in pretty much every important match, and was clearly the leader both for Inter and Netherlands. He play a great final and give Robben a huge passing ball lead him 1 on 1 with the GK as well. Still that treble should have been enough, even if Netherlands didn't get out of the group stage, yet they end up in the final, and only Robben misses and referee, who didn't show a clear red to Puyol for being the last defender and commit a clear foul against Robben who beat him and was going 1 on 1 with the GK cost him the title. Still a new user, and can't post a media, but everyone can search the final and see it with their own eyes.
In 2013 there wasn't anyone who was in front in Bayern team, and i still think that some of their players should have won it.
I made a quite clear arguments why he shouldn't won it 2012, he missed a huge important penalty that decided the match against poor 10 man Clesea side, he was also invisible in both matches. He get trashed by Ronaldo's Real Madrid that won the league, he won Copa, that noone cares(except for biased Messi fan).
How dumb will sound if i say X guy in England should won, cause he won FA Cup, yet get trashed in CL and so ???
2019 and 2021 are an absolutely disgrace, as there was clearly better players than him by far. Copa is a junk tournament that has no qualifiers or any rules at all, you get 5 junk teams in 1 group, and 4 of them qualify for the next phase, which alone is a complete joke.
On top of that in the last 6 years that tournament has 4 appereance in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, which is an absolutely joke. Obviously they was going to make it, until Mesi won it eventually. It's quite clear at this point.
And don't let me start it with 2009, as they were gonna be out of the CL if it wasn't for UEFA/referee help in one of the biggest robbery in the history in the CL against Chelsea.
In the end of the day this is my opinion, and in no way in hell he deserved the ball in 2010, 2012, 2019, 2021. 4 gifted one.
Yeah aside from beating a record nobody got even close to for 39 years, despite missing 5 games. Over the last 30 years only 4 times league’s top scorer got more than 30 goals in a Bundesliga season. All of those times it was Lewandowski.
You can discount Bundesliga all you want but for some reason his achievements stand out a lot. The 41 goals is basically similar to Curry’s 400 three pointers in 2015-16 NBA when nobody prior to him got over 300. Just a completely absurd stat.
There is "no way in hell" a player deserved the Ballon D'Or in a year (Messi 2012) he had 113 goals and assists and it was a gift? I mean come on dude. Exaggeration like that really kills any credibility.
He didn’t deserve it in 2012 or 2019? Hahaha way to lose any credibility with your argument in that. 2012 may be the best individual season by a player the last 12 years or so.
and even VVD’s teammates say Messi should have won it over VVD, so enough with that nonsense. He inarguably was the best and most deserving player in 2019. VVD had a much more balanced team than Messi did around him.
and for all the “Ronaldo bad guy” nonsense Messi came FIFTH in ballon d’or voting during a season he tied the ALL TIME assist record.
Said the biggest Messi fanboy on the planet, that defend him no matter what. It's hard to take you seriously when you was explaining last week how Messi was having a great game in CL, where he was invisible and terrible, and plenty of people was telling you that, and then you start changing your version, when see it ain't gonna work.
But i will give it a try, no matter the biased you are. For what exactly he deserved in 2012? For getting trashed in La Liga by Ronaldo's Real or getting trashed by 10 man Di Matteo Chelsea team, while Messi was invisible all night long(both matches), and on top of that missed a crucial penalty? That alone should been enough to not get the Golden Ball that year. As far as how many goals he was scored, there is an award for that. GB was always about contribution to the team, and winning the biggest tournaments/CL.
And 2019 was a clear VVD's award. Absolutely flawless season. Messi again was trashed big time in CL and loses exactly to that Liverpool team. Messi was invisible in the rematch they get trashed by 4-0 again. Don't care what some wannabes were saying. And i can clearly say that tons of people call that decision blatant robbery and that the GB lose it's prestige after that point and i fully agree with them.
Same for 2010, 2012, 2019 and 2021.
Also this is an award for the whole year. VVD has a perfect start in the 2019-2020 season.
As far as the teams i completely disagree. Barca was playing all in for Messi. And this season is quite obvious what's going on with him in PSG, when the whole team isn't build around it. It's fun when the team is doing good, and Messi is scoring it's all because of Messi, but you see not the team contribution to his goals, but when the team was doing bad, oh it wasn't because of Messi and all of that. I don't buy that.
But i didn't expect anything less from you. Maybe Chelsea side 2012 was stronger than Barca side that year, right?
And again how hard is for you to get that, people that aren't biased like you have their own view ??? At the end of the day everyone have their view, so anyone trying to force his opinion not going to be seen with good eyes by me.
VVD got trashed by Messi in the first game, he should be thankful to Divock Origi and Dembele, cause that's why they reached the final...which is why nobody remember how poor he was in the first game.
He didn't have a better year than Messi in 2019, if Maldini never won a Balloon D'or (being at least two tiers above VVD and being top since young age, unlike VVD who is a late bloomer), sure VVD shouldn't.
I also find kinda ironic to see Man Utd fans cheering for a Liverpool player to win an award(that he didn't deserve after all), can't imagine Liverpool fans cheering for Beckham to win an award.
Said the biggest Messi fanboy on the planet, that defend him no matter what. It's hard to take you seriously when you was explaining last week how Messi was having a great game in CL, where he was invisible and terrible, and plenty of people was telling you that, and then you start changing your version, when see it ain't gonna work.
But i will give it a try, no matter the biased you are. For what exactly he deserved in 2012? For getting trashed in La Liga by Ronaldo's Real or getting trashed by 10 man Di Matteo Chelsea team, while Messi was invisible all night long(both matches), and on top of that missed a crucial penalty? That alone should been enough to not get the Golden Ball that year. As far as how many goals he was scored, there is an award for that. GB was always about contribution to the team, and winning the biggest tournaments/CL.
And 2019 was a clear VVD's award. Absolutely flawless season. Messi again was trashed big time in CL and loses exactly to that Liverpool team. Messi was invisible in the rematch they get trashed by 4-0 again. Don't care what some wannabes were saying. And i can clearly say that tons of people call that decision blatant robbery and that the GB lose it's prestige after that point and i fully agree with them.
Same for 2010, 2012, 2019 and 2021.
Also this is an award for the whole year. VVD has a perfect start in the 2019-2020 season.
As far as the teams i completely disagree. Barca was playing all in for Messi. And this season is quite obvious what's going on with him in PSG, when the whole team isn't build around it. It's fun when the team is doing good, and Messi is scoring it's all because of Messi, but you see not the team contribution to his goals, but when the team was doing bad, oh it wasn't because of Messi and all of that. I don't buy that.
But i didn't expect anything less from you. Maybe Chelsea side 2012 was stronger than Barca side that year, right?
And again how hard is for you to get that, people that aren't biased like you have their own view ??? At the end of the day everyone have their view, so anyone trying to force his opinion not going to be seen with good eyes by me.
Worthy Ballon d'Or winner with a single goal to his name in Ligue 1 . Janitor's contrubution to PSG domestic season is probably greater than his.
You know as well as anyone else that this is a ridiculous argumentSo was mane a biased Messi fanboy as well picking Messi over VVD for ballon d’or? Picking over his own teammate?!
wake up
you’ve been getting ripped apart in this thread as you’re more biased than anyone. To downplay his 2012 is beyond moronic. So why did Ronaldo win in 2013 then? Why should Lewa win now? For getting dumped in the group stage and losing in the qf?
you’ve had one horrible take after another
You know as well as anyone else that this is a ridiculous argument
He scored 3 in 3 for a terrible Poland. What more did you expect of him?
He was injured in the QF against PSG but it's a bit messed up to hold that against him when Messi got knocked out a round earlier himself isn't it?
I understand you support Messi but a lot of Messi fans have turned to Lewandowski bashing and it's best to stay away from that
I'm getting ripped apart in this thread, by who exactly? And don't say Wolf cause he is ignored long ago, and i can't see his post.So was mane a biased Messi fanboy as well picking Messi over VVD for ballon d’or? Picking over his own teammate?!
wake up
you’ve been getting ripped apart in this thread as you’re more biased than anyone. To downplay his 2012 is beyond moronic. So why did Ronaldo win in 2013 then? Why should Lewa win now? For getting dumped in the group stage and losing in the qf?
you’ve had one horrible take after another