I was thinking about this for awhile, and was wondering if anyone else felt that people are hesitant to award Premier League players with the credit they deserve?
Eg. Am I crazy or was Haaland not winning the Ballon D’or really disrespectful towards the Premier League?
He set the goals record, and won the treble.
You Look over the list of winners and in the premier league era only Michael Owen and Ronaldo have ever won it while playing for a premier league team.
How did Henry not win it in 2003?
I feel like now that he is dominating a much poorer league Harry Kane is finally getting the respect he deserves.
Jude Bellingham is getting bonus credit for doing it for Real Madrid.
Remember its a french award and football isn’t even in their top 5 most popular sports.
Nah, Premier League is overrated, if it was as good as it made out, why do English clubs not do better in Europe on the regular?
Before you downvote, I am a fan of a Premier League club
Yeah probably but I’m not bothered if a player I rate skill wise and off the pitch doesn’t get the most popular player of the year award.
The balondor would be a great award if the proper criteria for worldwide player of the year was less subjective and if you took away this corporate conference style system they have for it. I remember watching the CL draw this year and if you’re drawing out something that can be done in 15mins over 1h30mins you’re doing something wrong, I imagine balondor is similar not watched it in ages.
Yeah probably but I’m not bothered if a player I rate skill wise and off the pitch doesn’t get the most popular player of the year award.
The balondor would be a great award if the proper criteria for worldwide player of the year was less subjective and if you took away this corporate conference style system they have for it. I remember watching the CL draw this year and if you’re drawing out something that can be done in 15mins over 1h30mins you’re doing something wrong, I imagine balondor is similar not watched it in ages.
Bunch of French weirdos circlejerking over who gets to receive the most lobbying money. All to present them with a golden ball.
It’s so blatant it’s hard to even care, they actually stepped it up to a whole new level of nonsense this year with Messi.
World Cup performance is literally always the driver of Ballon d’Or winner in a WC year. Look at Modric, Cannavaro etc. Nothing new or stepped up.
On the contrary, I think the Ballon d’or is overhyped by everyone.
On the contrary, I think the Ballon d’or is overhyped by everyone.
Can we put this to bed already. Haaland could not score in any final man city played this season and couldn’t get his national team to qualify for the World Cup. How can we give him an award for being the best player in the world if he can’t do those simple things. All the other top 5 guys did it why can’t he?
Bunch of French weirdos circlejerking over who gets to receive the most lobbying money. All to present them with a golden ball.
The premier league is overrated, it’s just that the ballon d’or doesn’t rank it as highly as everyone else does
I’d be surprised if the Premier League or FA cared tbh.
The Ballooner is all about vibes, and yeah, the vibes in England don’t sit right with a lot of the judges. You can’t win it by sheer force of stats either way though.
It’s all they have left
Imagine people are still upset about the greatest ever footballer getting his due accolades, the only sport that does this btw