BosnianBlue
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See this was also the excuse when Salah beat De Bruyne to the award. His individual performance is better because he's carrying an inferior team. Funny that Liverpool fans claim to have the best front three, the best CB, the best full backs, the best goalkeeper, and nowadays even the best DM in Fabinho, but when these awards come up, they point to how our performances should be seen in the context of being surrounded by great players, while theirs should be recognised on their own merits.
Individual awards should be individual awards. I was always against Messi and Ronaldo winning them when they teams were winning CL. Both of them should have less ballons then they have.
Salah vs De Bruyne was tricky one, to be honest. De Bruyne was easily the best in first part of the season but his standard dropped a bit in 2nd part, while Salah did opposite, peaked just about at the time the votes were being sent and on the end scored 30+ goals that happens pretty rare. Both of them deserved it that year, but Salah got it partly because he was liverpool player and Kev City player, I definitely support opinion that we are discriminated in these awards as before Pep only two managers who won the league in a decade that haven't won manage or the year awards were Mancini and Pellegrini, while none of our players ever won POTY award; and partly because strikers are favored in all individual awards with goals being used as argument. I hate that as I don't think they're more important than players on other positions, but that's how it is unfortunately. It's easier to market strikers so the money plays.