@@kageryu311 i would argue most of it not all of the players put up for the award had better seasons than lookman, even some people who weren’t up for the award had better years like salah and akanji. And it’s not like he carried Nigeria he was good but its not like he was clearly the best player. Lookman being ahead of Cole palmer, grimaldo, xhaka makes no sense.
@@sambrown8301 he in fact carried Nigeria you didn't watch the afrcon and you clearly didn't watch the Europe league because he's the reason why atalanta reach the final 🤦
@blindededlvr any Real Madrid player could’ve won they won the most important competition the Champions League plus won more trophies in Spain I don’t get it.
Remember Real Madrid showed up for EVERY BALLON D'OR especially all the Messi ones, at a time when you knew in advance who would win or not. So if they didn't show up for this one, then there is something more than spite
@@gmae5342 Even if that is true it is still disrespectful to not show up. Also, what you're saying could've happened to Messi and Ronaldo multiple times but they always showed up and showed class to each other. I'm sure it has happened in the past with other players. Real Madrid has no class and lost all my respect for that club. Vini acting like he put up Messi and Ronaldo prime numbers with the behavior he is giving off. But nah, he and the whole Real squad are all acing like kids that didn't get what they want.
@Visionaep Palmer won nothing (besides the supercup with city ig) and don't forget how many pens he had. Foden was prem poty and one of the top performers in the ucl as well
@@AXEmurdererAM lautaro scored 44. He won serie a, supercoppa italiana, won copa america, top score copa america, top score serie a. So, Whats your point??
Yanal literally scored 5 goals in the league campaign lol people just saw him at euros and presumed he did the same in the league, he was shit in the league campaign
@Codmuser1234 no rodri is the deserved winner by far, yamal had a shit campaign and that's facts, funny how when player doesn't get any g/a people find excuses lmfao, but if yamal had g/a you'd all be shoving it down our face 😂
The euros has been overhyped this year, it shouldn’t outway an entire 9 MONTHS of football . Olmo didn’t have a stand out league season, neither did Lamine or Nico Williams but 1 month of ball is seen as more important? Crazy
@ that Barca team also had experienced players also didn’t Barcelona win the league the season before ? So they were already good with league winners……what are you talking about? 😂
Yachine was probably the worst award handed out this year, kobel won ucl goalkeeper and Bundesliga best goalkeeper and finished 10, should tell you everything about this stuff
2010 = Asamoah Gyan, 19th, Rennes and Sunderland, bottled a match winning pen in a World Cup Quarter Final, 24 G/A in the calendar year 2024 = Cole Palmer, 25th, Chelsea (and Man City in first few games), despite limited minutes, assisted the winner in the Euro SF and scored the equaliser in the Final mere minutes after coming on, 45 G/A in the season And I've seen a lot of people saying "Football fell off" So a guy like Palmer (who is a really good player btw) who is playing in an era where "football fell off" according to many people outperformed someone who played in a "much better era" yet finished lower in the standings Make it make sense
Ya really logical to compare different years. Numptey, the seats is for 12 months not lifetime. & funny hoe you have to manipulate it, duh he scored less, he was playing for Sunderland, Cole is at chelsea. & bottled? Seriously, are you 12? He missed a pen after a cheat. You can't bottle a pen you muppet, it's just called a miss, & he scored in the shootout. Funny how your trying to make 1 moment define a season
Ballon dor is a european award made for europeans. It’s as simple as that. They are ALWAYS going to prioritize european players and trophies (just look at how the copa america didnt count for shit in favor of lautaro, only to diminish vini). And dont even let me get started on Rodrygo not beeing even in the top 30 😂
It's literally just a summation of 100 journalist from 100 countries voting for who they think is the best. The ballon d'or community basically have no control, you can say that Europe has the most no. Of journalists voting, so they may favour Europeans, but yea your statement is just wrong
First guy who’s actually saying that Bellingham also deserved it. Crazy how he carried Madrid in the first half of the season n people ignore it bcuz he didn’t score in the UCL later stages. Vini was nowhere near as instrumental at any one point during the season. Shame how Carlo didn’t even think him in his story!
As a madridista Bellingham deserved it so much more than Vini did. Media ran a hate campaign on Jude around April/May and really picked it up at the euros. and the way he plays doesn’t help with ppl’s “eye test”, but if we look at a season as a whole, start to finish he was the most impactful player of the year imo. It just feels like Madrid fans rallied behind the guy with more seniority at their club instead of looking at our success objectively.
Yeah, he even performed at the Euros, got an assist in the final. He got an assist in the CL final too. I'm sure he would have won it if he won the Euros.
@@clintonlawrence6296 leverkusen players deserve to be higher but that doesn’t mean lets hate on yamal and forget what he did as 16 years old first professional season. WHOEVER DOESNT LIKE IT, DEAL WITH IT!
@@Jaxes6 its was jude at first then rodri after the euro, vini didn’t deserve it more than jude but when the final came, spain won it spain midfield was the biggest key for spain winning it and RODRI WON THE BEST PLAYER AT THE EURO AND THE EURO IS BIG PART OF IT
If you think Carvajal isnt top 4 , then Rodri should be not winning this. Its a shame you mentioned carvajal rather than telling yamal at 8 over kroos and dani olmo at 13 just for a 7 match tournament. Barcelona PR is what you need to comment
Always expect lyes to drop some bangers, glad to see that lyes agrees also that the balon d'or is just a popularity contest or in this case political contest
As a Liverpool fan who's been raving about this guy for the good part of three years now I can tell you absolutely, this man is a world class manager. He's gonna get United back to the top.
You are wrong. Carvajal had an insane season both defensively and offensively. Arguably was top 3 RBs in the world and even scored in the UCL final. He is placed a bit too high, but don't ever compare him with Jorginho.
@@soclh6638 I'm not comparing them as players. They had similar seasons where they were key figures (sort of) for both club and country, but also both slightly overrated since neither of them were actually the best player on their team. I was making this comparison cause people were making ballon d'or claims for Carvajal which is horrendous.
Winning International trophy is the biggest dream for every player.....and lautaro martinez was a super sub in copa america thats why he is rated low....
bro, international team is nice, but erling halaand, has virtually no chance. should be club team ucl, league, and then national team, by the way national tournaments are not even played that frequently my 0.02
It’s sad for haaland, He needs to crush this season to win it. If it’s a World Cup or euro year he has slim chances. Hoping that odegaard gets fit so that they can atleast reach the round of 16. Once they’re there, and with haaland probably wining prem and could win ucl. He’ll win the ballonD’or
After Messi won it over Haaland last year i stopped taking this award too seriously. Still the biggest individual achievement but not the end of the world
Ye even as a Messi fan without bias. If it’s truly voted for the best player over the full season, Haaland should’ve won. It was given to Messi because of the narrative which tbf would more than likely give him the ballon dor anyway in most years but Haaland was a freak. Maybe Haalands big game track record let him down. But ye the criteria is getting poorer and poorer.
Lookman was arguably Nigeria’s best player in the afcon, he was also the best player in a Europa league winning team, as well as a Hattrick in the final against the almighty Leverkusen, he deserves at least 14th spot
I think another problem is how the people voting only vote for the top 10, so players like grimaldo wont feature on anyones list because hes not top 10, but if they were to do a whole list, they would rank him higher. Similar for players like olmo who are so high because some of the voters seem to only have watched the euros, whilst if they made everyone do a whole list, the majority of the other voters would have had him much further down
International tournaments always have a massive impact on the voting. In 2018, messi had the most goals, assists and trophies, yet finished 5th due to Argentina's disappinting world cup
@yemi3266 during 2010-2015, the voting criteria was different. International captains and coaches also had a vote. They usually vote for the best individual player, so the majority of them voted Messi or Ronaldo. Sneijder actually won the journalist vote in 2010 as did ribery in 2013. In 2019, Brazil won the Copa, Dani alves was player of the tournament, but he was playing in Brazil at the time which affected him. Van dijk won the UCL, but it's difficult for a defender to beat a forward who scored more than 50 goals and had 20 plus assists. There wasn't any outstanding candidate for the award. Messi individually was the best
@LoyalFan9383 Wow. You must really hate Messi. It doesn't matter what you think, the people who voted for the award thought he should win, therefore he has 8. Accept it and move on
I don't mind them placing a lot of value in international competitions but it deff is inconsistent. Also feels unfair to any non--European players since they clearly value Euros way more than Afcon, Copa America, etc.
please be real. hes great this season but last season he wasnt this good. he had like 12 non penalty goals last seasons and took chelsea to the conference league
@ he had a great individual year, what’s the criteria ? Are this is an individual award and team achievements are more important ? A lot of these players had moments and that’s the reason they’re on this list
@ NOOOO he took Chelsea to the Europa league, look at the league table. Chelsea are only in the conference league because of non league reasons. He had the most goal contributions in the prem, had a tone of great individual moments, impacted the euros more than anyone else for England (except for Saka I’d say they’re even) and he carried a poor Chelsea team. He should be higher
19:12 no, but it has a strong case of being the best individual season in our club's history also u cant say greatest player oat based of him jus winning the ballon d'or cause other players had they're best szn with much more competition making it wayyy harder for them to win it
@@Pazpyncs he scored in semi final..???? Final..??? LAUTARO MARTINEZ WON SERIA A TOP GOALSCORER FOR INTER WOM SUPER COPA ITALIA HE SCORED FOR ARGENTINA WON THEM THE COPA AND HE WAS IN UCL HE DIDNT WIN THE UCL THAT’S IT IF HE WON IT THEN HE WON HAVE WON THE BALLON DOR
Who cares about who came 23rd in the the 2024 Ballon D'or. People just care about winners, and Rodri is a valid one. There should be more outrage over some previous Ballon D'or winners instead.
I like lyes take on this ,it reminds me of 2006 when Samuel etoo was the best player and World Cup happened Cannavaro,zindane ,Henry ,Ronaldinho finished ahead of him
You understand football, and you're a smart guy; so how does it not occur to you that the way the journalists rank these players is the same way we all do: through a combination of all the criteria. You ask is it numbers or performances or narrative or national tournaments? The answer is all the above, just like how you look at all the above when judging player to player. As for the international tournaments being given a bigger weight respectively to their durations, hasn't it always been like this? Old gen players' reputations were built on a single world class world cup campaign, because *way* more people watch the international tournaments than club football, which means-whether we find it fair or not- they have the biggest weight on player perception and image.
Rodri didn't make the UCL team of the tournament and didn't even get NOMINATED for Premier League player of the year. And I'm supposed to believe this guy is the best player in the world? 😂
The Ballon D'Or is and has always been total rubbish. Have you seen the voting panel? There's like a journalist from EVERY FIFA country, which is a joke.
@@kurtsudheim825 I'm not surprised, it's always been rubbish. Journalists in Azerbaijan and Rwanda decide the Ballon D'Or? Do they even get coverage of all of the games there?
Mbappe is french thats why his 6th I've been making cases for rodri and Martinez while the world was saying vini is winning the award i think Martinez makes the top5 easily even the top 3 but hey i guess i don't know ball
22:43 THANK YOU LYES!! THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. For the longest time I have been telling people that from the inception of FIFA's World Player of the Year in 1991, that was the most prestigious footballing award, not L'Equipe's Ballon D'Or. Loads of people don't even know that the Ballon D'Or was created in 1956 by French Magazine L'Equipe and until 1995, only players from European nationalities playing in Europe was eligible to win the award. Thats why Diego Maradona did not win any Ballon D'Ors in the 1980s because he was an Argentinian, a South American, playing in Europe. So does that mean Michel Platini or Marco Van Basten are better players all time than Diego Maradona because they won multiple Ballon D'Or for being French and Dutch respectively while Maradona was not eligible for being Argentine? Do anyone have doubts because of this that Maradona was not the best player of the 80s? Like Lyes says, "Lets be logical now." And another thing that confuses people is that they dont know that in 2009, FIFA and France football merged both the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon D'Or to create FIFA Ballon D'Or and then split again in 2016 as FIFA created their own award known as the FIFA Best Player of the Year while Ballon D'Or award. Some people still think that FIFA is the one behind the Ballon D'Or awards which has not been true since 2016.
this has been happening for decades and this 1 month is about competitions with the national team if you can score 30+ for your club but cant perform for your own country you are a fraud
Bundesliga always gets disrespected no matter what… the Best Performance League in Europa last season only got like 5 Players in there … yeah right 😂😂😂 musiala Not Even mentioned, but ödegaard saka declan rice who also didnt win jack. But we see this from time to time with german Players and teams. Spain shouldnt have won the European cup in the First Place ( handball ) but I guess thats why people always think Bundesliga is a bad league 🤷🏿♂️
And why is it outrageous ?? VIni missed more than quarter of a season. Had decent-good performances in the league. Was the best player in UCL. But what did he do for NT? That's right, f all. In fact, Rodrygo and raphihna had better copa performances than vini. Coming to Jude, excellent start to the season. Horrible UCL campaign and fell off tail end of the season in the league. Didn't do much at the euros except for the overhead kick. Meanwhile, Rodri has been consistently putting in 8/10 performances on the pitch. He was so crucial to city winning the league that the only games city lost were the ones in which Rodri didn't play. So tell me?? why is it outrageous for Rodri to win ?
Rodri wasn't the best in the Spanish team, he wasn't even nominated for the best in the premier league nor was he in the team of the season as a midfielder, he wasn't even the best on his team, so how was he the best in the world???, no It makes no sense at all, they just didn't want Vini to win@@14_Phoenix
Exactly. I think for players like Salah, KDB, VVD etc, you need a special reason to exclude them. They don't suddenly become shit players even if they don't receive much silverware. On the other hand, for players that only show up for a big game (Olmo, Lookman), they should at least have a great season elsewhere to be considered.
@@sdm_za that's my point. Salah had an average season by his standards, but he is still twice the footballer Lookman, Olmo or last season Yamal are. His lack of silverware should disqualify him from any of the higher spots, but he should still have been included in the list.
@darreltan1694 real talk man. All the players you mentioned I agree, especially Salah and I'm a city fan. This dude had a great season it's only considered average because it's Salah.
They thought it was previous season. Best cb in pl were vvd & 2 arsenal guys. Ruben was poor, even man city fans will tell you that, yet he is highest ranked? Just didn't make sense
@@aseelgadirkind of? The only 3 players on this list who were at the Copa América finished 7th, 17th and 18th. If Copa was given the same weight as the Euros, Lautaro would've easily finished top 5.
To win the balon d'or you need to be at least one of these 3: 1. Be spanish 2. Play for a spanish team 3. Be a forward If Rodri was Dutch and played for Bayern Munich, he probably would have finished 6th
agree with everything except the take on carvajal, that man will be instrumental in any team. He's imo one of the best fullbacks in world football, he creates goals, sometimes scores (UCL final goal and motm), and his workrate in defense is outrageous. I think it's great they recognize Rodri's contribution and brilliance (always wanted players other than attackers to win) but I feel like it was for the wrong reasons because they find Rodri a more presentable/acceptable and universally loved winner, whereas Vini has become an increasingly polarizing personality for many people
I stopped caring about this thing a long long time ago, but I cannot get over the absolutely embarrassing behavior and antics the entire club of Real Madrid have put out. Never seen anything like it.
the fact that revolts is precisely that the euro out of nowhere has more importance than the Copa América and the champions league, a championship that encompasses only a portion of the world's football players cannot have more weight than a champions league where the best players really are , this to me shows how this criterion was invented to not give the ballon d or to Vini, it was clear that vini bothers uefa.
for me: -excluded for their off/on field behavior: vini and rodri, vini is fighting a lot and sometimes dives very badly whilst rodri claimed an entire country belongs to spain after the euro win -excluded for not having good enough season overall: olmo and yamal (i would exclude more ppl but i dont remember everyones stats) -rankings: 1. jude or lautaro, kroos higher, hummels a lot higher, foden a lot lower (what did he do for england to be 11th 💀), dovbyk higher
I do agree, but that is almost every major sports award (MVP) which I guess is what the ballon d'or is equivalent to in American sports. Though I do think the award is flawed in how it is voted on and the criteria is quite inconsistent. Though I do think it very hard to award and should try to be improved but it is always going to be a subjective thing to an extent. Players play different positions, different leagues, different national teams, and more which is hard to quantify.
unpopular opinion and people might laugh: the ballon d'or is only taken as seriously as it is because of how iconic the trophy is. If it looked like the trophy they give for 'the best', people/ players wouldn't care nearly as much
At this point they should just award best midfielder, best winger , best striker awards because the criteria is just crazy Ever since they held mls trophies high then European trophies that’s when it all fell apart. The last truly deserved winner was Benz. Jude was my pick rodri was 3rd no way he should have won it over vini and Jude
21:04 Exactly. Paolo Maldini never won a Ballon D'Or. Does that mean Fabio Cannavaro is a better defender than him? Does Michael Owen winning a Ballon D'Or make him Liverpool's greatest ever player over Sir Kenny Dalglish or Steven Gerrard? Does Maradona having zero Ballon D'Or in the 1980s because he was not European and Michel Platini and Marco Van Basten make him a worse player?
Anybody arguing that vini should have won ballon d'or over Rodri can't produce 1 legitimate reason other than UCL. Had horrible copa America campaign, missed quarter of the season due to injury and had few decent-good performances in the league. Meanwhile, Rodri was so crucial to city winning the league that the only games city lost were the ones in which rodri didn't play. Had he not played his role, we (arsenal) would have deffo won the league. Not to mention the fact that he was crucial to Spain's campaign at the euros as well. Absolute jokers.
This is the worst ballon d'or nominee since they robbed milito of a nominee how tf is lautaro under mbappe and haaland did they even watch the euro when they said this was the worst ballon d'or year I thought they were just complaining but this is by far the worst ballon d'or year
The fact that Lautaro didnt finnish atleast 4th is crazy
@@Flewisjr maybe ucl tax
It's just crazy that he didn't get higher than that and to be fair he deserved it has much as the winner and even more.
@@Witty205 lautaro didnt win ucl that was the missing piece
@@aseelgadir mbappe and erling didn't win it either and yet they are above him. Let's be real here this is a shit list .
Nah
Lookman at 14 is crazy, based off one game entirely
Afcon too
He had a great AFCON and a great season with Atalanta.
@@kageryu311 i would argue most of it not all of the players put up for the award had better seasons than lookman, even some people who weren’t up for the award had better years like salah and akanji. And it’s not like he carried Nigeria he was good but its not like he was clearly the best player. Lookman being ahead of Cole palmer, grimaldo, xhaka makes no sense.
@@sambrown8301 he in fact carried Nigeria you didn't watch the afrcon and you clearly didn't watch the Europe league because he's the reason why atalanta reach the final 🤦
He literally carried Nigeria to a AFCON final. What are you on about?
The list is absolutely fucked. This award has no credibility whatsoever.
Jude should’ve won it
@blindededlvr any Real Madrid player could’ve won they won the most important competition the Champions League plus won more trophies in Spain I don’t get it.
The Euro is bigger than the champions league bruh
@@AMZ119 ofc it’s a big completion btw I mean for club
@@AMZ119bcz it happens every four years? Is the level of competition really that much better?
Lautaro at 7th is the biggest joke.
Facts, should be top 5
Remember Real Madrid showed up for EVERY BALLON D'OR especially all the Messi ones, at a time when you knew in advance who would win or not. So if they didn't show up for this one, then there is something more than spite
I think it’s probably because they’d been told for at least a month that Vini would win it only for it to change last second
@@gmae5342 Even if that is true it is still disrespectful to not show up. Also, what you're saying could've happened to Messi and Ronaldo multiple times but they always showed up and showed class to each other. I'm sure it has happened in the past with other players. Real Madrid has no class and lost all my respect for that club. Vini acting like he put up Messi and Ronaldo prime numbers with the behavior he is giving off. But nah, he and the whole Real squad are all acing like kids that didn't get what they want.
No Musiala, no VVD and no Salah, but Olmo and Vitinha are here 😂😂😂
VVD, Salah ?? Do you even watch football clown or living in 2019 ? They did not win any significant apart from Carbao cup lmao
Lamine yamal above Kane? I get that Yamal is crazy talent but if we are talking about impact and stats Kane is way better
Ballon d'or is a fraud trophy for a long time
Olmos one makes sense but Vitinha💀💀💀💀
@@lilalbertbuoy5929 actually is the other way around, Vitinha was much better then Olmo considering the entire season
Foden ranking lower than Yamal is crazy 🤣😭
yeah foden, kane, and wirtz got done dirty
Foden should be 26th not 11th cuz palmer was better and he’s 25th
@Visionaep Palmer won nothing (besides the supercup with city ig) and don't forget how many pens he had. Foden was prem poty and one of the top performers in the ucl as well
@@evenmagical yh but palmer actually played good for England when he came on and foden was trash
@@evenmagical plus foden robbed poty he’s so overrated
Where is Jamal MUSILIA it’s a abouslte disgrace they didn’t put him in the nomination
I thought salah being snubbed was weird as well
@@rohithraman6488 both didn’t have amazing seasons in teams that finished third with no silverware. Ik Salah won the Carabao cup but like who cares
@@emilevangheem6165better than a lot of players on the list
@@emilevangheem6165 I'm not saying he should have won it but not even in the top 30? Come on
@@rohithraman6488 there is definitely an argument to be made but I wouldn’t consider it a disgrace
Lautaro Martinez should be top 3, top 4 minumum. How is Haaland and Mbappe above him. Fk how is Carvajal above him? I'd put Martinez 3rd .
How is Haaland above him? Probs cuz he scores 40 goals. Won the prem, won the CWC and got to an fa cup final.
@@AXEmurdererAM lautaro scored 44. He won serie a, supercoppa italiana, won copa america, top score copa america, top score serie a. So, Whats your point??
@@AXEmurdererAM You clown 🤡 🤡 he embarrassed you and showed your blind bias
Pls don't tell me you mean the villa gk
@@AXEmurdererAMso?
lamine yamal did not have a better season than toni kroos, just stupid
CRY MORE!!!!!
@@aseelgadirthis response doesn’t make you or your club look any better
Yanal literally scored 5 goals in the league campaign lol people just saw him at euros and presumed he did the same in the league, he was shit in the league campaign
@@AFCWipo haha shit campaign is hilarious. I bet you’re propping Vini’s G/A, brudda had less than Mateta 💀😂
@Codmuser1234 no rodri is the deserved winner by far, yamal had a shit campaign and that's facts, funny how when player doesn't get any g/a people find excuses lmfao, but if yamal had g/a you'd all be shoving it down our face 😂
The euros has been overhyped this year, it shouldn’t outway an entire 9 MONTHS of football . Olmo didn’t have a stand out league season, neither did Lamine or Nico Williams but 1 month of ball is seen as more important? Crazy
WHAT YAMAL DID FOR BARCA AND SPAIN IS MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN DO IT WITH TEAM FULL OF STARTS AND WORLD CLASS PLAYERS WHO HAS EXPERIENCE FOR YEARS
Also CRY MORE
@ that Barca team also had experienced players also didn’t Barcelona win the league the season before ? So they were already good with league winners……what are you talking about? 😂
@ you clearly can’t have a conversation without trying to clown people, this is a football discussion. Say something of value
@@jamesthompson5287 that barca team from 2022 its not the same as 2024
It’s the 7 games award during euro/copa years. Olmo 13th so crazy. Wasn’t bro like absent most of the season for his club? Mad
Man city fan here, martinez and foden below haaland is ridiculous. Haaland is the better player of the three but last season wasn't his greatest.
Yachine was probably the worst award handed out this year, kobel won ucl goalkeeper and Bundesliga best goalkeeper and finished 10, should tell you everything about this stuff
How can you use two subjective awards as criteria to winning another subjective award?😂
@@grez367why not
yh they really did put some no name from Africa ahead of Kobel lmfao
2010 = Asamoah Gyan, 19th, Rennes and Sunderland, bottled a match winning pen in a World Cup Quarter Final, 24 G/A in the calendar year
2024 = Cole Palmer, 25th, Chelsea (and Man City in first few games), despite limited minutes, assisted the winner in the Euro SF and scored the equaliser in the Final mere minutes after coming on, 45 G/A in the season
And I've seen a lot of people saying "Football fell off"
So a guy like Palmer (who is a really good player btw) who is playing in an era where "football fell off" according to many people outperformed someone who played in a "much better era" yet finished lower in the standings
Make it make sense
Ya really logical to compare different years. Numptey, the seats is for 12 months not lifetime. & funny hoe you have to manipulate it, duh he scored less, he was playing for Sunderland, Cole is at chelsea. & bottled? Seriously, are you 12? He missed a pen after a cheat. You can't bottle a pen you muppet, it's just called a miss, & he scored in the shootout. Funny how your trying to make 1 moment define a season
Ballon dor is a european award made for europeans. It’s as simple as that. They are ALWAYS going to prioritize european players and trophies (just look at how the copa america didnt count for shit in favor of lautaro, only to diminish vini). And dont even let me get started on Rodrygo not beeing even in the top 30 😂
Ahem(messi)ahem
messi is a literal embodiment of everything against what u said
@@Kg-wc4jrbecause Messi is a different story, he’s favoured by UEFA and FIFA
It's literally just a summation of 100 journalist from 100 countries voting for who they think is the best. The ballon d'or community basically have no control, you can say that Europe has the most no. Of journalists voting, so they may favour Europeans, but yea your statement is just wrong
A South American has 8
First guy who’s actually saying that Bellingham also deserved it. Crazy how he carried Madrid in the first half of the season n people ignore it bcuz he didn’t score in the UCL later stages. Vini was nowhere near as instrumental at any one point during the season. Shame how Carlo didn’t even think him in his story!
Belligham was flying first half of the season. Clutch and consistent
As a madridista Bellingham deserved it so much more than Vini did. Media ran a hate campaign on Jude around April/May and really picked it up at the euros. and the way he plays doesn’t help with ppl’s “eye test”, but if we look at a season as a whole, start to finish he was the most impactful player of the year imo. It just feels like Madrid fans rallied behind the guy with more seniority at their club instead of looking at our success objectively.
Yeah, he even performed at the Euros, got an assist in the final. He got an assist in the CL final too. I'm sure he would have won it if he won the Euros.
So much PR how is yamal 8th? I mean fair play to the kid but nobody can convince me he had a better season than e.g Wirtz last year
why mention yamal what about others???? Yamal for his first season as 16 years old did much bettter than most of this guys
They be hating on the Bundesliga
@@clintonlawrence6296 leverkusen players deserve to be higher but that doesn’t mean lets hate on yamal and forget what he did as 16 years old first professional season. WHOEVER DOESNT LIKE IT, DEAL WITH IT!
This isn't the youngest best player award, this is the best player of the season award @@aseelgadir
@@Jaxes6 its was jude at first then rodri after the euro, vini didn’t deserve it more than jude but when the final came, spain won it spain midfield was the biggest key for spain winning it and RODRI WON THE BEST PLAYER AT THE EURO AND THE EURO IS BIG PART OF IT
mbappe and carvajal above lautoro is the real robbery and that is undisputed. madrid pr is crazy
Lautaro deserved it more than Vinicius jnr
carvajal arguably should have won it but mbappe is agreee
@@themanwithnothingtolose why? because he had a good copa america? or good serie a campaign? lol yall be saying anything now
@@weaboo9152more goals and more awards
If you think Carvajal isnt top 4 , then Rodri should be not winning this. Its a shame you mentioned carvajal rather than telling yamal at 8 over kroos and dani olmo at 13 just for a 7 match tournament. Barcelona PR is what you need to comment
Always expect lyes to drop some bangers, glad to see that lyes agrees also that the balon d'or is just a popularity contest or in this case political contest
As a Liverpool fan who's been raving about this guy for the good part of three years now I can tell you absolutely, this man is a world class manager. He's gonna get United back to the top.
In the office doing presentations and I see lyes posted. I love u fam
🤣❤️
Grimaldo crazy low.
I'm probably biased cuz I watched every leverkusen game last season in all comps but grimaldo could be top 15 or even top 10
Madrid players showing more support for him on social media losing the award than when he faced racism
Carvajal this year is what Jorginho was a few years ago, nothing more
Agree
@@brightthe344why
exactly
You are wrong. Carvajal had an insane season both defensively and offensively. Arguably was top 3 RBs in the world and even scored in the UCL final. He is placed a bit too high, but don't ever compare him with Jorginho.
@@soclh6638 I'm not comparing them as players. They had similar seasons where they were key figures (sort of) for both club and country, but also both slightly overrated since neither of them were actually the best player on their team. I was making this comparison cause people were making ballon d'or claims for Carvajal which is horrendous.
David Silva disrespect goes crazy
Winning International trophy is the biggest dream for every player.....and lautaro martinez was a super sub in copa america thats why he is rated low....
bro, international team is nice, but erling halaand, has virtually no chance. should be club team ucl, league, and then national team, by the way national tournaments are not even played that frequently my 0.02
It’s sad for haaland,
He needs to crush this season to win it. If it’s a World Cup or euro year he has slim chances. Hoping that odegaard gets fit so that they can atleast reach the round of 16. Once they’re there, and with haaland probably wining prem and could win ucl. He’ll win the ballonD’or
Shoulda been above mbappe and haaland at least
After Messi won it over Haaland last year i stopped taking this award too seriously. Still the biggest individual achievement but not the end of the world
Ye even as a Messi fan without bias. If it’s truly voted for the best player over the full season, Haaland should’ve won. It was given to Messi because of the narrative which tbf would more than likely give him the ballon dor anyway in most years but Haaland was a freak. Maybe Haalands big game track record let him down. But ye the criteria is getting poorer and poorer.
What happens when you carry a nation to the biggest prize in world football
@@grez367since when did he do that
@@farouq143fr Ronaldo deserved 2012, 2018, 2019 over Messi and Modric
@@LoyalFan9383 2012 Messi 91 goals? 2018 maybe u can say Ronaldo but that’s it
Lookman was arguably Nigeria’s best player in the afcon, he was also the best player in a Europa league winning team, as well as a Hattrick in the final against the almighty Leverkusen, he deserves at least 14th spot
I think another problem is how the people voting only vote for the top 10, so players like grimaldo wont feature on anyones list because hes not top 10, but if they were to do a whole list, they would rank him higher. Similar for players like olmo who are so high because some of the voters seem to only have watched the euros, whilst if they made everyone do a whole list, the majority of the other voters would have had him much further down
Some journalists didn't even have Vini in their top 10
International tournaments always have a massive impact on the voting. In 2018, messi had the most goals, assists and trophies, yet finished 5th due to Argentina's disappinting world cup
Yet he won it in 2019, 2011, 2010.
@yemi3266 during 2010-2015, the voting criteria was different. International captains and coaches also had a vote. They usually vote for the best individual player, so the majority of them voted Messi or Ronaldo. Sneijder actually won the journalist vote in 2010 as did ribery in 2013. In 2019, Brazil won the Copa, Dani alves was player of the tournament, but he was playing in Brazil at the time which affected him. Van dijk won the UCL, but it's difficult for a defender to beat a forward who scored more than 50 goals and had 20 plus assists. There wasn't any outstanding candidate for the award. Messi individually was the best
@@acahn8505no? He didn’t deserve 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023
@LoyalFan9383 Wow. You must really hate Messi. It doesn't matter what you think, the people who voted for the award thought he should win, therefore he has 8. Accept it and move on
@@acahn8505 No one cares about the ballon d’or anyway Messi can continue to rig awards in his favour
I don't mind them placing a lot of value in international competitions but it deff is inconsistent. Also feels unfair to any non--European players since they clearly value Euros way more than Afcon, Copa America, etc.
Olmo Williams and lookman have no business being on this list seriously how is Williams higher than saka and palmer
100 countries Journalist's votes
25:35 that's not true considering we've never seen a player as important and also get 26g/a from DM like Rodri did last szn
palmer is STILL somehow so underrated
Facts how is he this low ? Ridiculous
please be real. hes great this season but last season he wasnt this good. he had like 12 non penalty goals last seasons and took chelsea to the conference league
@ he had a great individual year, what’s the criteria ? Are this is an individual award and team achievements are more important ? A lot of these players had moments and that’s the reason they’re on this list
@ NOOOO he took Chelsea to the Europa league, look at the league table. Chelsea are only in the conference league because of non league reasons. He had the most goal contributions in the prem, had a tone of great individual moments, impacted the euros more than anyone else for England (except for Saka I’d say they’re even) and he carried a poor Chelsea team. He should be higher
Carvajal some how only got 4th when He won it all
19:12 no, but it has a strong case of being the best individual season in our club's history also u cant say greatest player oat based of him jus winning the ballon d'or cause other players had they're best szn with much more competition making it wayyy harder for them to win it
LAUTARO MARTINEZ WAS NOT A STARTER FOR ARGENTINA
@@filipeherrera280 IF HE DIDNT SCORE , ARGENTINA DIDNT WIN THE COPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@aseelgadirone game out of 7 games bro
@@Pazpyncs he scored in semi final..???? Final..??? LAUTARO MARTINEZ WON SERIA A TOP GOALSCORER FOR INTER WOM SUPER COPA ITALIA HE SCORED FOR ARGENTINA WON THEM THE COPA AND HE WAS IN UCL HE DIDNT WIN THE UCL THAT’S IT IF HE WON IT THEN HE WON HAVE WON THE BALLON DOR
@@aseelgadir yeah but people like you act like lautaro carried Argentina to the copa America when he didn’t even start
@@Pazpyncs that goals in the final ans semi final count
Martinez at 7 is just crazy
It's the worst balon d or short list in history
I wouldn't go that far
2023 was just as bad. Musiala lost Kopa Trophy to Bellingham even though Musiala had better stats & won a Bundesliga with Bayern that season.
Who cares about who came 23rd in the the 2024 Ballon D'or.
People just care about winners, and Rodri is a valid one.
There should be more outrage over some previous Ballon D'or winners instead.
Nah Rodri is definetly not a valid one bellingham, Toni, Mbappe, Yamal, Phoden are more valid than him, Vinicius was the true winner and was robbed
@@06diogoleitao41 Cry more vardrid0g with 0 ball knowledge 😂
i don't know why players put so much importance in the balon dor
its just the opinion of some random journalists
You forgot Raul, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Seedorf, Pirlo, Del Pierro, Toti, Batistuta, Eto'o, Drogba and many others than never won it.
Harry Kane deserves to be here and possibly Guirassy for being 2nd highest Bundesliga goal scorer and helping Stuttgart finish 2nd in the Bundesliga.
This channel deserves more subscribers
Yaya Toure has to be in the conversation for one of the best City players of all time
I like lyes take on this ,it reminds me of 2006 when Samuel etoo was the best player and World Cup happened Cannavaro,zindane ,Henry ,Ronaldinho finished ahead of him
Wirtz should've been top 10 and Lautaro at 3rd
You understand football, and you're a smart guy; so how does it not occur to you that the way the journalists rank these players is the same way we all do: through a combination of all the criteria. You ask is it numbers or performances or narrative or national tournaments? The answer is all the above, just like how you look at all the above when judging player to player.
As for the international tournaments being given a bigger weight respectively to their durations, hasn't it always been like this? Old gen players' reputations were built on a single world class world cup campaign, because *way* more people watch the international tournaments than club football, which means-whether we find it fair or not- they have the biggest weight on player perception and image.
Rodri didn't make the UCL team of the tournament and didn't even get NOMINATED for Premier League player of the year. And I'm supposed to believe this guy is the best player in the world? 😂
The whole argument for him is consistency and they act like everyone in the top 10 wasn’t ridiculously consistent
The Ballon D'Or is and has always been total rubbish. Have you seen the voting panel? There's like a journalist from EVERY FIFA country, which is a joke.
No shirt sherlock, that's how it works. How are you surprised
@@kurtsudheim825 I'm not surprised, it's always been rubbish. Journalists in Azerbaijan and Rwanda decide the Ballon D'Or? Do they even get coverage of all of the games there?
@@kiriakozridiculous comment. the whole world loves football. football isnt for europe and its not for real madrid either.
So true, Foden was our mvp last yr even more than rodri, but rodri deserves it cuz of euros. Foden>Haaland last yr tho
Mbappe is french thats why his 6th I've been making cases for rodri and Martinez while the world was saying vini is winning the award i think Martinez makes the top5 easily even the top 3 but hey i guess i don't know ball
22:43 THANK YOU LYES!! THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. For the longest time I have been telling people that from the inception of FIFA's World Player of the Year in 1991, that was the most prestigious footballing award, not L'Equipe's Ballon D'Or. Loads of people don't even know that the Ballon D'Or was created in 1956 by French Magazine L'Equipe and until 1995, only players from European nationalities playing in Europe was eligible to win the award.
Thats why Diego Maradona did not win any Ballon D'Ors in the 1980s because he was an Argentinian, a South American, playing in Europe. So does that mean Michel Platini or Marco Van Basten are better players all time than Diego Maradona because they won multiple Ballon D'Or for being French and Dutch respectively while Maradona was not eligible for being Argentine? Do anyone have doubts because of this that Maradona was not the best player of the 80s? Like Lyes says, "Lets be logical now."
And another thing that confuses people is that they dont know that in 2009, FIFA and France football merged both the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon D'Or to create FIFA Ballon D'Or and then split again in 2016 as FIFA created their own award known as the FIFA Best Player of the Year while Ballon D'Or award. Some people still think that FIFA is the one behind the Ballon D'Or awards which has not been true since 2016.
I can't understand how one month of football eclipsed the other 9 months. We are literally living the worst era of football and it shows.
They did the same for canavarro
@@GGM28 and R9
This has always happened since 90s players were winning based on international tournaments, wth are you on about this “era” nothings changed
this has been happening for decades and this 1 month is about competitions with the national team if you can score 30+ for your club but cant perform for your own country you are a fraud
Alexis Mac allister won Copa America. Won carabao cup, not even top 30
There's no criteria. The ballon d'or Is basically just a popularity contest among the journalists who were chosen to vote
It's a popularity contest
damn he was actually making sense
wow
For me though i think Lautaro shouldve won and that placement is horrendous
the "side character" carvajal was so important madrid broke their unbeaten streak when he wasnt there
Messi won it when he was 22. Lamal is barely 17 and is number 8! wild
Bundesliga always gets disrespected no matter what… the Best Performance League in Europa last season only got like 5 Players in there … yeah right 😂😂😂 musiala Not Even mentioned, but ödegaard saka declan rice who also didnt win jack. But we see this from time to time with german Players and teams. Spain shouldnt have won the European cup in the First Place ( handball ) but I guess thats why people always think Bundesliga is a bad league 🤷🏿♂️
Lautaro deserves this ballon d'or
Palmer not being in top 10 is crazy, Him being under lookman is just insanity
I thought it was outrageous that Rodri won over Vini and Jude, but wow, this is really bad. Someone needs to expose who voted for this absurdity!
And why is it outrageous ?? VIni missed more than quarter of a season. Had decent-good performances in the league. Was the best player in UCL. But what did he do for NT? That's right, f all. In fact, Rodrygo and raphihna had better copa performances than vini. Coming to Jude, excellent start to the season. Horrible UCL campaign and fell off tail end of the season in the league. Didn't do much at the euros except for the overhead kick.
Meanwhile, Rodri has been consistently putting in 8/10 performances on the pitch. He was so crucial to city winning the league that the only games city lost were the ones in which Rodri didn't play. So tell me?? why is it outrageous for Rodri to win ?
Outrageous ? Seriously ?
0 - iq play😂😂😂😂😂
Rodri wasn't the best in the Spanish team, he wasn't even nominated for the best in the premier league nor was he in the team of the season as a midfielder, he wasn't even the best on his team, so how was he the best in the world???, no It makes no sense at all, they just didn't want Vini to win@@14_Phoenix
Why are we acting like big tournaments had big impact but now that the favorite player doesn’t win every thing doesn’t matter
Exactly. I think for players like Salah, KDB, VVD etc, you need a special reason to exclude them. They don't suddenly become shit players even if they don't receive much silverware. On the other hand, for players that only show up for a big game (Olmo, Lookman), they should at least have a great season elsewhere to be considered.
I just realised do you think deco look at the euros then decided to get Dani olmo in
Salah didn't have that good of a season. Only won a Carabao Cup, and disappeared after the Afcon
@@sdm_za that's my point. Salah had an average season by his standards, but he is still twice the footballer Lookman, Olmo or last season Yamal are. His lack of silverware should disqualify him from any of the higher spots, but he should still have been included in the list.
@darreltan1694 real talk man. All the players you mentioned I agree, especially Salah and I'm a city fan. This dude had a great season it's only considered average because it's Salah.
They thought it was previous season. Best cb in pl were vvd & 2 arsenal guys. Ruben was poor, even man city fans will tell you that, yet he is highest ranked? Just didn't make sense
Euro 2024 had such huge weight
SAME WITH COPA AMERICA
@@aseelgadirkind of? The only 3 players on this list who were at the Copa América finished 7th, 17th and 18th. If Copa was given the same weight as the Euros, Lautaro would've easily finished top 5.
Cole palmer is still way too low like surely you have to somewhat exclude team success when the individual performances were consistently that good
To win the balon d'or you need to be at least one of these 3:
1. Be spanish
2. Play for a spanish team
3. Be a forward
If Rodri was Dutch and played for Bayern Munich, he probably would have finished 6th
Martinez was disrespected
"Journalists voted man, it is what it is", -- exactly, those who say robbery should understand this.
I'm with you, nobody heard about this award before ronaldo and messi, and it will go back in darkness again!
Lyes you know that a list can never be perfect. I you ranked them and published your list to all football fans millions would not agree with it.
Everyone is focusing on the winner while the real travesty is the ranking.
The disrespect to Cole Palmer. Balondor is finished
agree with everything except the take on carvajal, that man will be instrumental in any team. He's imo one of the best fullbacks in world football, he creates goals, sometimes scores (UCL final goal and motm), and his workrate in defense is outrageous. I think it's great they recognize Rodri's contribution and brilliance (always wanted players other than attackers to win) but I feel like it was for the wrong reasons because they find Rodri a more presentable/acceptable and universally loved winner, whereas Vini has become an increasingly polarizing personality for many people
I stopped caring about this thing a long long time ago, but I cannot get over the absolutely embarrassing behavior and antics the entire club of Real Madrid have put out. Never seen anything like it.
the fact that revolts is precisely that the euro out of nowhere has more importance than the Copa América and the champions league, a championship that encompasses only a portion of the world's football players cannot have more weight than a champions league where the best players really are , this to me shows how this criterion was invented to not give the ballon d or to Vini, it was clear that vini bothers uefa.
They really just picked names out of a hat (apart from Rodri)
I think next year will be better because top players are performing at a high level
for me:
-excluded for their off/on field behavior:
vini and rodri, vini is fighting a lot and sometimes dives very badly whilst rodri claimed an entire country belongs to spain after the euro win
-excluded for not having good enough season overall:
olmo and yamal (i would exclude more ppl but i dont remember everyones stats)
-rankings: 1. jude or lautaro, kroos higher, hummels a lot higher, foden a lot lower (what did he do for england to be 11th 💀), dovbyk higher
International football always has a big play when it comes to the ballon dor, this is nothing new
Foden needed to be top 5 at least
I do agree, but that is almost every major sports award (MVP) which I guess is what the ballon d'or is equivalent to in American sports. Though I do think the award is flawed in how it is voted on and the criteria is quite inconsistent. Though I do think it very hard to award and should try to be improved but it is always going to be a subjective thing to an extent. Players play different positions, different leagues, different national teams, and more which is hard to quantify.
12:47 bro 100% agree with your thought process and counter argument at 12:57
How the hell is Haaland top 5 and ahead of lautaro, Kane, Mbappe, kroos
unpopular opinion and people might laugh: the ballon d'or is only taken as seriously as it is because of how iconic the trophy is. If it looked like the trophy they give for 'the best', people/ players wouldn't care nearly as much
I get the inconsistency in the nominees but acting like Rodri had NO case to win it and he robbed Vini is crazy.
Why wouldn’t the euros, a major international tournament, count as much as it did? The players were so good🤔
Football is for everyone not just for madrid
You didn't mention the fact that Cole Palmer had a goal in the final and an assist in the semifinal and that should account for something.
At this point they should just award best midfielder, best winger , best striker awards because the criteria is just crazy
Ever since they held mls trophies high then European trophies that’s when it all fell apart. The last truly deserved winner was Benz. Jude was my pick rodri was 3rd no way he should have won it over vini and Jude
21:04 Exactly. Paolo Maldini never won a Ballon D'Or. Does that mean Fabio Cannavaro is a better defender than him? Does Michael Owen winning a Ballon D'Or make him Liverpool's greatest ever player over Sir Kenny Dalglish or Steven Gerrard? Does Maradona having zero Ballon D'Or in the 1980s because he was not European and Michel Platini and Marco Van Basten make him a worse player?
Lautaro should be the winner
International trophy tax is acc insane 😂😂😂how’s olmo there
No his not our greatest player but i can assure you he is one of them
Lyes is very right because if a footballer was given the option to win a World Cup or the Ballondor, 9 times out of Ten they pocking the World Cup😂
Anybody arguing that vini should have won ballon d'or over Rodri can't produce 1 legitimate reason other than UCL. Had horrible copa America campaign, missed quarter of the season due to injury and had few decent-good performances in the league. Meanwhile, Rodri was so crucial to city winning the league that the only games city lost were the ones in which rodri didn't play. Had he not played his role, we (arsenal) would have deffo won the league. Not to mention the fact that he was crucial to Spain's campaign at the euros as well. Absolute jokers.
This is the worst ballon d'or nominee since they robbed milito of a nominee how tf is lautaro under mbappe and haaland did they even watch the euro when they said this was the worst ballon d'or year I thought they were just complaining but this is by far the worst ballon d'or year