Have many legitimate Ballon d'ors does he have? I'd say one and that's being generous. Good player. Not great

Have many legitimate Ballon d'ors does he have? I'd say one and that's being generous. Good player. Not great.

Nobody actually believes he's in the running for best in the world except easily impressionable children. Ballon d'or is the most transparent marketing PR there is.

the one he won at manure and that's it

one
all the others were just the result of a popularity contest and marketing

His one at United.
All the others were to hype his fake rivalry with Messi.

This.

He was legit top 5 best players in the world when he was at Manu.

Nowhere near that level now. Not even top 10

One.
Usually he is not even the best Real Madrid player. Healthy Bale was more important in their first CLs and Modric right now is better than he is.

my god, it's full of reddit

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>2008
>2016
>2017
2013 should’ve gone to LCIM or Ribery, and 2014 to Neuer. Same way 2010 should’ve gone to Iniesta instead of Messi.

2008, 2013 and 2016

Only reddit and muslims rate Tsunaldo. How many of his Ballon d'Or are more or less deserved is debatable since the award has never had clear cut criteria, but he's never been nearly as good a player as Messi.

Cristiano 2
Messi 4

Messi stole a few from players like Iniesta or Seneijder and Ronaldo stole from Messi

>They think the Balloon Door is based on futebol
what's it like being 12 and in special school?

>Iniesta, Sneijder
In 2010, Iniesta was injured most of the season and Sneijder wasn't even rated as best player in Serie A that season.

nice blog post

That should only prove the point about awards not actually naming the best player

Isn't Sup Forums haram? In any case you have to go back.

Hard to say, actually. Id give him 2008 and 2014 for sure, but one can't argue he deserved 2013 and 2016 at the same time, since the same criteria applied on both would let one behind. 2016 was clearly Messi btw, and 2017 Messi was the best player for me.

here's your answer

he was the best in the world at manure. Madrid ruined his creativity. He deserved it this year though for the 10 KO stage goals

>he deserves a meme award for scoring tap ins on benfica and moscow in meaningless games and finishing second to fucking spurs

Goalkeepers should never be considered for balon d'or

>benfica
>moscow

what

He scored against Bayern, Atletico and Juve.

Unironically this. That was the only time in history I can accept that he was better than Messi. In 2007-2008, 10 years ago.

ONE.
AT ManU, before Messi even played regularly for Barcelona.
Ronaldo hasn't even been in the top 100, but is treated like a God for playing for Madrid.
Biggest overrated joke in sport's history. That simple.

Well thats how shit the award is, not considering the second half of the year and just giving it to the CL winners. His KO stages were phenomenal but this season he's shit scoring against spuds and broken dortmund

>disappears against Juventus
>best

that's why the balloon poor should be awarded at the end of a season like the uefa awards and not at the end of a calendar year

Exactly. Also an award distributed by a magazine with journalists votes considered should not be given this amount of credit

You forgot Rooney in 2008

French autism

WHO THE FUCK CARES. THE STATS AND THE PLAY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. THE TALENT, I.E., SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. FUCK THE HARDWARE. IT IS IRRELEVANT. IT HAS NO NECESSARY LOGICAL BEARING ON THIS SOLE PERTINENT QUESTION: WHO IS THE BETTER FOOTBALLER?

WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER. ONLY SOME OF US DECEIVE OURSELVES AS TO WHAT IT REALLY IS.