Numerouno94:
Obembet give it a rest. U might end up committing suicide wit the rate ur going.

U guys knw Messi deserves his award buh hate nd jealousy have taken over ur souls nd hv clouded ur sense of judgment/reasoning. Messi wasn't jux given the award, his stat was there for everyone to see nd every reasonable nd unbiased minds who saw nd compared both all agreed that Messi deserves it. My question now is who re u? Obembet nd co? Who re u?

Delusional is when you think Messi deserve this one. Best player ever? Yes! Deserves this balon dor? Not a chance.

Tony Kroos crying Fowl is also guilty how can you place Benzema Ahead of Messi? For what Na . Is it trophy wise , Assist or goals?

obembet:


Do you know why am happy, the same thing has happened to Mendy now. Am UNITED fan but I don't think any keeper is better than Mendy (Chelsea) since last season but according to thier vote, Mendy didn't even make second..

So let keep enjoying it

Lalasticlala

They won't mention mendy because he's black. How many of our black top athletes complain non , instead Evra dey complain of Ronaldo wey no deserve anything

obembet:
Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos and club legend Iker Casillas have led criticism of the decision to hand Lionel Messi this year's Ballon d'Or, with the German claiming 'it's absolutely not deserved'.

The Paris Saint-Germain forward saw off competition from Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho to lift the seventh Ballon d'Or of his incredible career.

Messi claimed a maiden Copa America title with his country during 2021 and was also top scorer in LaLiga for the 2020-21 season with 30 goals as Barcelona finished third.

The 34-year-old also helped Barca win the Copa del Rey before moving to PSG on a free transfer in the summer.

He had collected the honour for a record sixth time in 2019 – one ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo – before the awards were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Most were expecting the prize to go to Lewandowski after he maintained the incredible goal-scoring form that made him favourite for last year's prize before it was scrapped.

The Poland international, 33, finished second after scoring 38 goals in 30 league games for Bayern in 2021, in addition to winning the Bundesliga.

And Kroos was fiercely critical of the decision to name Messi as the winner before also revealing who he voted for in his top three.

Speaking on his podcast, Kroos said: 'It's absolutely not deserved.

'There is no doubt that Messi, with Cristiano, has been the player of the last decade, but this year there should've been others ahead of him.'

Kroos said his top three were Real Madrid team-mate Karim Benzema, Lewandowski and Jorginho.

Iker Casillas, the legendary former Real Madrid goalkeeper who had some sensational battles with Messi during his career, also admitted the PSG star should not have won the prize.

The Spaniard added: 'It is increasingly difficult for me to believe in football awards.

'Messi is one of the best but you have to know who is the most outstanding player after the season. It's not that hard.'

After winning the award, Messi did acknowledge Lewandowski's achievements over the past two years and said he did 'deserve' the prize.

Messi said: 'You deserve your Ballon d'Or. Last year everyone agreed that you were the winner.

'I think France Football should give you your Ballon d'Or. You have to have it in your house.'

But it was not all criticism for Messi. Match of the Day host Gary Lineker hailed his award as a 'magnificent seven' and described him as a 'truly extraordinary footballer'.

The former England and Barcelona striker tweeted: 'It’s a magnificent seven. Congratulations to Lionel Messi on winning yet another Ballon d’Or.

'A truly extraordinary footballer and an absolute credit to the sport both on and off the pitch.'

However, football fans were also questioning why Messi was named as the winner with a large number on social media insisting it should have gone to Lewandowski or even Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.

@KevCawood wrote: 'I think him winning it this time shows how ridiculous the award has become. Lewandowski and Salah have been head and shoulders above Messi this year.

@redikki agreed, posting: 'Wonderful footballer, possibly the greatest ever but time @francefootball to shake up the voting. How can #Lewandowski score so many goals over the last 24 months and not get recognised! Giving up on this award!'

@CalumClark13 commented: 'Joke of decision, I know your a barca man but this year and it being suspended last year stinks of corruption both Lewandowski and Salah were better players this year but this has happened before with Messi and Ronaldo where there whole hype and name drop takes over.'

With his latest success, Messi added to his 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019 trophies. He played down any talk of retirement in his victory speech.

'It is incredible to be here again,' said Messi in Paris on Monday night.

'Two years ago, I said that it was my last years, and that I didn't know what was going to happen, and now I am here again.


'After that they began to ask me when I was going to retire and today I am in Paris. I am very happy and very excited, eager to continue fighting for new challenges.

'I don't know how much I have left, but I hope it's a lot, because I love this. Other times I won this award and I always had the feeling that something was missing.

'I felt gutted about something, and this year I was able to achieve the dream that I wanted so much after having fought and having gone through many falls.

'This award is largely because of what we (Argentina) did in the Copa America.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10257345/Toni-Kroos-says-Lionel-Messis-Ballon-dOr-absolutely-not-deserved.html

Oyibo Sabi wayo pass us. Their rigging na top notch. You no fit catch Dem, Lewy deserve that award

anonymous1759:


Tony Kroos crying Fowl is also guilty how can you place Benzema Ahead of Messi? For what Na . Is it trophy wise , Assist or goals?

Bro, what is good for the gander is also good for the goose....

If he was in a position to vote, bro, that's the vote he's gonna cast.

Those who voted Messi also had their reasons, which obviously isn't related to his performance this very Year!!

I love this write up. [

[/quote]quote author=NORSIYK post=108089733]Only blinded football fans will justify this year's Ballon D'or, in as much as it boils down to those who voted.

Ballon d'Or isn't for best player in a calendar year rather is for the most popular player amongst the bias and corrupt voters.


Neymar or Suarez or Griezmann with Messi's stats won't even make Ballon D'or top 10 in rankings.

Then again it's Messi whose all rules must be bent to favour him.


In 2010 it was about goals not about contributions like winning champions league with the most assists, world cup joint top scorer, World cup finalist, world cup silver ball.

2018 was about being a world cup finalist with 2 goals and 1 assist
Champions league winner
Thereby making useless of the 2010 criteria.

2019 was about goals and not about champions league contributions again, thereby changing the 2018 criteria.

2021 goals doesn't matter, dribbles and useless chances created that amounted to nothing were more important.

France football is about the publicity they get from the bias journalists who vote for their favorite player regardless of how poorly he had performed

lexy2014:


Good question. Another question, why was d award cancelled last year all in d name covid when it was clear lewandoski was going to clinch it?

French League was also Cancelled Last year because of COVID.

Before other Leagues decided to resume and finish up, France football already announced they are cancelling the League.

So, It's not only the award they cancelled, they cancelled all other football stuffs.

Stop making it look like it was cancelled because of Lewa.

Yeye Kross pepe body u be Real Madrid player na.. your disappointment is expected.
Where were you in 2013 when CR7 won it against Snidjer?

LM7
Haters can't change anything!!
Na try again another year... If e too dey pain you do your own award and give any fucking body. Make Una rest Abeg.

Odoogu:


Bro, what is good for the gander is also good for the goose....

If he was in a position to vote, bro, that's the vote he's gonna cast.

Those who voted Messi also had their reasons, which obviously isn't related to his performance this very Year!!

So his performance is not worthy of the price?

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Numerouno94:


This is the problem i hv wit some of u. U can't make a decent conversation witout trying to bring in personal/financial/family gibberish. Do u knw me outside nairaland? Hv u ever seen me begging on nairaland? Ohhhh u fink we re some low life poor rats cos we condescend so low by making jokes wit every Tom, Dick nd Harry on nairaland? Do u realise alot of financial buoyant Nigerians re on this forum jux as their re poor nd average Nigerians on the forum too? Well i will 4give ur ignorance nd let that slide, afterall a word from a pained as penaldian shuld b taken wit a pinch of salt.


Abt Buhari, re u in anyway better than Buhari? We all insult Buhari wen we re worst than the devil in our own little way buh so quick to insult Buhari. Re u any different? Ain't u a pained, bitter asss biased penaldian on this forum? Who in sport section doesn't knw that Obembet is one biased member? Who doesn't knw that u enjoy promoting Ronaldo nd pushing evil agender against Messi in collaboration with ur equally biased mods?? Now check urself b4 casting aspersions at Buhari cos ur no better.


Back to the topic, Messi deserves his 7th balon d'or. Re u better than the organisers, captains, coaches, journalists etcetera, that took part in the voting process? I will not dwell much on this cos Messi's stat is there for everyone to see. U guys fink everything is fake wen tinx don't go in ur favour. Lewi himself congratulated Messi, who re u to tink otherwise? Who re u?


U guys re only angry that Messi has left ur pendu far behind in the pecking order.

Like i said earlier, u can stop following football if ur angry. Pls boycott anything football, let the world no u guys re angry. After all, we need sane minds in football, not some pained asss bitter fans.

I said wat i said. Obembet, u nd ur coons shuld boycott football forever pls. Gud riddance.

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shut up

this is the poor man's Lindaikeji blog for paupers like you

How did you know he voted benzema as his number 1?
Clearly he mentioned his top3

Dvin:
You see hypocrisy in Him. You want the prize to go to Lewandowsky but still voted benzema as your no1.

Make I no say anything

stayclearofme:

So his performance is not worthy of the price?

If we using this year as a yard stick....
Nope, it doesn't....
Lewandowski and Sallah did better.

Penaldo cry-fan-gurls



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqMFFa1EASg

Messi plays CONSISTENTLY BEAUTIFUL football, he DESREVES IT; that is how beautiful his game is. The Ballon Dor is NOT strictly goal-scoring award; there are awards for that. The Ballon Dor is about the complete picture of the beautiful game which Messi GIVES & NO picture in football is more complete than Messi.

Let the tears continue to flow until the loading 8th arrives.

I'm a Messi Fan, but I would have voted lewandoskwi as my number 1, Messi no 2 and jorginho my no 3

These bad belle people doing everything possible to discredit Messi's well-deserved award.
As e dey pain dem e de sweet us.
Click like for Messi and share for him, he deserves it all.

Adrian98:
A lot of people here are just coming at CR7 fans but it’s bigger than that. Messi doesn’t deserve this one and he knows. Lewandoski is there. He won the champions league, uefa super cup. Golden boot for his league. He won his league and other cups. For the fact that he was denied this award last season he should have won it now. This season he is way ahead of Messi.

It’s just sad but it has happened

Stop mixing last season with this season.

The award being cancelled last season is not a valid excuse to give him this year.

That's just like saying a student that should have graduated last year (but didn't graduate due to Corona/ASSU strike), should not have an extra year (even when he clearly have outstanding courses), just because Corona/ASSU already wasted one year.

It doesn't work that way.

Numerouno94:
Obembet give it a rest. U might end up committing suicide wit the rate ur going.

U guys knw Messi deserves his award buh hate nd jealousy have taken over ur souls nd hv clouded ur sense of judgment/reasoning. Messi wasn't jux given the award, his stat was there for everyone to see nd every reasonable nd unbiased minds who saw nd compared both all agreed that Messi deserves it. My question now is who re u? Obembet nd co? Who re u?

I hear you
What is the criteria for winning the ballon d'or if actually you are a just person
It is not surprising that Messi won the award
After All who host it is it not french football?
Where does Messi play is it not french league??
It is so crystal clear that Messi was favored just for him to have more of the award than Ronaldo thereby robbing lewandoski and using best striker of the year to compensate him considering the comment made about Ronaldo from a whole pascal ferre the person responsible for awarding such a prestigious price, he lied about Ronaldo.

BIASED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, TAKE AWAY ALL YOUR SENTIMENTS AND LOOK AT THE FACTS STARING YOU ALL IN THE FACE AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT MESSI DESERVED THE AWARD OVER LEWY AS FAR AS 2021 IS CONCERNED,THE REAL MANIPULATION IS RONALDO FINISHING 6TH IF WE ARE BEING LOGICAL.

LM7 deserves it
See why

Odoogu:


If we using this year as a yard stick....
Nope, it doesn't....
Lewandowski and Sallah did better.

I hear.. make un go tribunal.

Ayemileto:


Stop mixing last season with this season.

The award being cancelled last season is not a valid excuse to give him this year.

That's just like saying a student that should have graduated last year (but didn't graduate due to Corona/ASSU strike), should not have an extra year (even when he clearly have outstanding courses), just because
Corona/ASSU already wasted one year.

It doesn't work that way.

Alright we’ll this season has Messi been a better player than lewandoski or salah?? From what was posted by BR and goal plus fabrizio messis greatest achievement this year was copa America and helping a struggling Barcelona. Let’s call a spade a spade. But I don’t think you’ll agree but let to me he doesn’t deserve it.

The problem is this stupid Madrid players would never have complained if same Ballon d'Or had been given to their buddy Ronaldo even though everyone knows he shouldn't even be in top 5. Why the hypocrisy?

BlaqJosh:
See what they gave lewy

What is this??...

Looks like cookies

Starz825:
What is this??...
Looks like cookies

that's the award they gave him

VillageElder:
Greatest of all time, pendu fans will also cry next year cos messi will ligue 1, champions league and world cup then win golden ball

Guy, you wuucked!

The best award will correct this...this was the nonsense balon dor was doing over the years in the 60s , 70s and 80s until fifa took over in the 90s and made it fair... till that criminal blatter United them abd they started their wayo again ...

stayclearofme:

I hear.. make un go tribunal.

....
go tribunal say I give my own opinion?
As I no agree with you.

Maka why, no be today e dey happen cos na vote.

Na you suppose get the matter, then move on