Messi wins Ballon D’or

Klippety has stated he was surprised Salah was only 7th in the list , i am surprised he was in the top ten , he was part of a team of surrender monkey's that gave their title away at Xmas.
 
Individual football awards are a bit of a strange, paradoxical thing, so it doesn't surprise me Messi won at all. Football is a team sport. If you play for a great team, with plenty of depth, it can penalise your chances of winning individual awards. Take City for example. We beat PSG without De Bruyne or Foden. Who is City's best player? Gundogan? Silva? Dias? It's a hard one to answer, because City could easily win major honours even if one of those players were out for long periods. Look at how De Bruyne missed nearly all of the 18/19 season, but we still won the title. Chelsea and Liverpool also have lots of attacking options, Chelsea have been without Lukaku for a while and they've barely missed him. It tends to be defenders who are bigger misses, like us with Laporte a few seasons back, but defenders rarely win these kind of awards. Because so many different players contribute to a team like City's success, its hard to pick a standout individual. I know Dias got the vote, but it could easily have been Gundogan or Mahrez, and if it was nobody could really argue. Messi got the Ballon D'or, not because of his club form, but because he won the Copa America with Argentina. Argentina are (by the standards of Argentina teams in the past) quite average. Scaloni is their equivalent of Southgate, a man who got the job because nobody else wanted it. Messi was the standout performer for a pretty average Argentina side. You also have to consider it was their first Copa America since 1993. Lewandowski had a great individual season, but scoring bucket loads for a Bayern team that dominates the Bundesliga, doesn't have the same "romance" as Messi inspiring an average Argentina team to its first title in 28 years, and his first international title after so many near misses. Putting all of that into account, its hard to argue against him winning it, even though he had far from a stellar 2021.
 
kun said:
Messi has achieved more in 2021 than Lewandowksi or Salah.
Jorginho is lucky to be involved in the conversation at all.
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True in 2021 Messi managed to:

Bankrupt his beloved Barca
Fuckoff of on a long holiday to the US while teasing fans and media.
More likely tell his mate Sergio to come join him and then fuck off
Shed fake tears.
Grab a massive cash (for himself) move to another club.
Stand around idle at new clubs as no **** would ever think of dropping him.
win a copa america (though DiMaria was the argies star player).

Well worth the trophy I agree
 
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This was almost certainly agreed in the deal for Barcelona to let him go. No point in following these awards, they are totally corrupt.
 
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