It's funny how suddenly the Copa America is one of the greatest competitions in the world and the winner should definitely be rewarded. This is the first time I can remember that the winner of the Copa America also won the Ballon D'Or. It's honestly only because Messi won it that is gained this grandiose allure
Brazil won in 2019 and Allison didn't even make the top 5 despite having winning the UCL and having a great domestic season. Sanchez won the best player in 2016 but didn't even get in the top 30 that year, despite also having a great start to the 2016-17 season as well.
So the winner of the Bundesliga should definitely be rewarded then ?
This is an individual trophy, it's actually quite simple, Messi is a better footballer than Lewa. End of.
Lewandowski has scored 14 more goals over the course of the year.
But Messi has 8 more assists, completed 185 more dribbles, created 63 more chances, 10 more big chances, scored 1 more match winning goal, won more points because of G/A, has 14 more MOTMs.
If you want to base it purely on goals + assists then Messi would have 9 Balon d'ors. Roy Makaay would also have won in 2005. (CR7 would only have 1).
I get it your player didn't win but let's not make it out to be as if it's some great robbery when he only had 6 more G+A than Messi throughout the year and Messi is clearly ahead on every other metric in a footballing aspect.