He has clearly been the best player in the world the past season. No one is even close to him. He dominated and was number 1 in all La Liga statistics for attacking players and he was actually pretty good in the Champions League too.
Liverpool's number of clean sheets is almost identical to City's, none of City's defenders is particularly praised for it. It's not a really special achievement. Messi's numbers, though, are extraordinary. Again, it's silly to reduce Messi's and Ronaldo's contributiions to goals. Besides, it's not that they score more goals than the other forwards but that they score/assist many more goals. Your golden boot point is unconvincing, I'm afraid.
Sneijder deserved over all of them. Won a treble with his club and practically willed his country into a WC Final.
He may have been the best over the season, but in 2019 only there’s no way he’s been the best.
who was better than Messi in 2019?
Ronaldo, Salah, VVD, Bernado Silva have all had bigger impacts.
Ronaldo can't compare neither when it comes to league performance neither when it comes to CL performances.
CL performances? Messi got a lucky draw against Lyon whilst Ronaldo had to contend with Atletico and basically single handedly got them into the QF.
I think he has been magnificent this season and if he carries on in the same vein into next then why not. The best player in the best team in the strongest league based on 4 PL teams in the European finals.
he was CL top scorer and no one was even close to him, especially not Ronaldo. that's it. I doubt they'll debate about who had easier draw among them.
Is this a yearly event and I just googled it, it was played against Netherlands. Were France, Belgium and Spain not invited?
don't get me wrong, I've watched about 25 City games in past season and yes, he certainly had great year. I just don't believe a player like him stand a chance against both Messi and Ronaldo and now VVD. I also doubt many of those who'd vote actually follow players so closely (Silva in this case) to see what he brings to the team and make them dismiss amazing individual stats of other players. to put it simply, I think it's mission impossible for him.
That makes perfect sense.
Every two years is the plan, this was the first one. All European teams were in it.
This ladies and gentlemen is why there ever won't be any reasoning with Cal and some others on here.Messi fans and their confusion about the Ballon d’or. They insist on talking about the season when the award is for the CALENDAR year.
Messi bottled the CL from 3 goals up and did absolutely feckall in the Copa America
It’d be a travesty if he got anywhere near winning it
Just ignore Cal when it comes to anything Messi related. Ronaldo is so not in the running for Ballandor this year and he knows it and hence his desperate actions to showcase and highlight his achievements on Instagram.
He was CL topscorer due to the group stage in 2018
France, Belgium and Spain didn't qualify
As I've already pointed out, La Liga was pretty much won in 2018, there's a huge difference padding stats in pretty much dead rubbers in La Liga to having the pressure of needing to win every game like City did to overturn the 7pt deficit to win the league.
Didn't Portugal qualify without Ronaldo?
Yes, and he won it for them being topscorer.
I thought he scored 6 in knockout stage as well, but yeah, it's probably just my bad memory.
imo, even when Messi scores 2, it counts like 4 because he's simply superior player to Ronaldo and his goals are usually better than simple headers. so he actually scored 12 goals in knockout stage + Juventus title doesn't count as the real trophy these days. check your facts, dude.Messi has 6 in 2019, Ronaldo has 5, no one was even close.
Largely depends on the AFCON outcome imo. A calender year winning the AFCON and CL whilst also winning PL Golden Boot would be pretty hard to ignore, but I can't see either of them even coming close in the voting tbh.
Says it all really
