Still dembouz 'fraid so

we're back in the era where any random player can win a ballon dor just by having a good season. imagine if you were told 3 years ago the 2025 bdo was being fought between raphinha and dembele

pfa player of the year > balloon door
cope and seethe all you want but it's the truth

eurocucks be like
>WEDONTCAAAAARE
>but if you lose wedontcare cup your ucl doesn't matter btw

watching these average zoomer players holding up the same award that messi and ronaldo once held just does not see right, they should truly just retire the award and make a new award that is less prestigious.

>>149810635 (OP)
Unironially I think this list makes way more sense. Maybe swap Raphinha and Salah but just maybe, inconsequential anyway.

>>149810635 (OP)
Not giving it to Vitinha is going to be criminal.

>>149810635 (OP)
Nothing in football is as pathetic as caring about the Meme D‘Or. French newspaper handing out awards for individual performance in a team sport with various different positions … and some retards pretend this is important

We really wenr from Ronaldo and Messi duking it out for ballin d'Or to vini vs Rodri and Dembele vs raphina lmao

>>149811025
exactly my point

Crazy how good Spain is at this sport.

>>149810656
Nice

>>149810734
Please don't give it to him we barely know he exists here and everyone will be confused because Ronaldo is the one who wins these things

>>149811092
nah, it's just that other countries won't fight tooth and nail so that yamal can fuck all their hottest and most fertile women

>>149810635 (OP)
Why do team trophies matter so much for individual awards? Isn’t that what the actual trophy is for?

>>149811343
Stop using my flag as a proxy you midget spic

neymar never winning it is crazy

>>149810656
>just by having a good season
that's how it's supposed to be
it wasn't supposed to just be messi's personal trophy

>>149811092
The purpose of sport is entertainment and entertainment is measured by whatever draws the most dollars. Thus, Spain is only mediocre at football.

>>149810656
enjoy it while it lasts, because Wirtz and Woltemade will share it between themselves for the next 10 years

>>149810635 (OP)
Fabian's had a decent year but he doesn't deserve to be this high up on the list. Certainly not above Pedri nor Hakimi.

>>149811363
>finally, common sense

Also, how df is Kvara not on this list, never mind top 3? He had a better than perfect season - wins every trophy he is vying for, wins 2 league titles, former team falls off when he leaves, new team picks up when he arrives, passes the eye test easily! Literally wtf?

I can understand Vini not being on the list, but Bellignham basically reincarnated as Zidane and Valverde was basically James Milner×Frank Lampard! Madrid was clearly fkd up by the obvious guy, they shouldnt lose credit because of him!

>>149810635 (OP)
>Vitinha
>Salah
>Raphinha
I don't dislike Dembélé but how can I give the BdO to these three instead?
It can quite possibly be their best chance.

>>149811025
that's just how much of an abnormality messi and ronaldo were
they made us think that the standard for winning a ballon d'or was winning a treble with their club, a continental cup with their national team and scoring 60+ goals per season
now we're back to times where just having an ok season with a trophy here and there is enough

>>149810656
>just by having a good season
isn't that the whole point? whoever had the best season wins it

>>149811025
Messi and Ronaldo were much greater than Kaka, Ronaldinho and Zidane too

>>149810656
Literally nothing wrong with this

>>149810635 (OP)
Salah is way overrated. A good league performance is never enough

>>149812838
>they made us think that the standard for winning a ballon d'or was winning a treble with their club, a continental cup with their national team and scoring 60+ goals per season
Cristiano and Messi literally never did those things

>>149812838
>>149812933
Fucking Rodri won the last ballon d'Or. He is worse than guys like Sergio Busquets and yaya toure who never even sniffed ballon d'Or contention. I mean hell Busquets spend most of the time as the 3rd best midfielder in the team he was on

>>149810656
Yes? The anomaly was the last 15 years, where FIFA deliberately created a 2 idol rivalry to promote the sport in the third world

>>149813179
The only reason Rodri won was because they didn't want Monke to win. Simple as that

>>149810703
nigga michael owen won a ballon dor at some point. this trophy was always a meme

>>149813191
You're right it was Fifa, Messi and Ronaldo were simply industry plants and weren't actually freaks of nature that made everyone else looks ordinary..

I swear I share a board with children who started watching football during covid

>>149810635 (OP)
>the win champions league win golden ball award

why even bother with the domestic leagues?
Everyone knows salah and mbappe are the best attacking players out of that bunch and have been so for a lot of years. Dembebouz had one good season, that's it.

>>149813228
>freaks of nature
What really happened was that their teams funneled all the resources on 1 single player so they could statpad.
They would be the ones finishing the plays most of the times, kick all penalties and freekicks (terrible conversion rates), and they barely pressed and defended
The moment they left Real and Barça, they won nothing

>>149810635 (OP)
still tony

>>149810635 (OP)
Didn't Vini said he was going to perform 10 times better than last season? Where is he?

>>149810635 (OP)
>salah
kek

>>149810635 (OP)
>Fabian
Big lol

>>149811329
Forgot to mention that I'm trans.

>>149813392
the most consistent attacking player in almost a decade

>>149813486
so now they'll give the award because of his career on a farmers league?

>>149813503
okay retard

>>149813486
then give him a ballon de decade or something, ballon d'or is based on performance on a given year alone

>>149810656
Well there was a worrhy transitional player between pessi-penaldo domination and mbappe and lamine . But he unfortunately likes his hobbies and lounging on a bed of cash more than football

>>149813542
are you trying to say he didn't perform this year? he had the best year of his career and that's crazy for a 33 year old. liverpool just didn't win the champions league that's it

>>149813577
What did they win this year? I there a ballon de disappearing in big matches?

>>149813596
I'm curious what's a big match for you. It's probably a champions league final isn't it? the game he couldn't play because his team didn't reach it

>>149813179
yaya toure jajajaj tienes que nacer tres veces yaya toure para tener la calidad de busquets

>>149810703
the ballon d'or was never prestigious
it's just a gaullist gimmick

>>149810656
>can win a ballon dor just by having a good season
Bro just get the point of a Ballon d'Or LMAO

dead sport

>>149813379
he'll be off to saudi in 2 years lel

>>149813379
Fraudbappe poisoned him like Zidane poisoned Ronaldo. Sees flag, you should be familiar with these tactics

>>149810703
Modric won a Ballon D'Or
Nevdev won a Ballon D'Or
Cannavaro won a Ballon D'Or
The thing hasnt been a true definer of the best player of the season for years now, its been a meme for like 20 years now.