Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has expressed disappointment at critics who claim Lionel Messi should not have been awarded the 2021 Ballon d’Or, Newspremises reports.

Lionel Messi was on Monday, November 29, handed his seventh Ballon D'or award by France football, the decision however, sparked controversies among football fans.

However, Guardiola who coached Messi during their time at Spanish club Barcelona insisted that no one can say it was unfair that the award went to Messi

With Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski missing out on the coveted prize last year, many claim the Polish striker should have been handed the award.

And as the debates continue to generate comments, Guardiola says it is unfair to the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner.

He said via Sportal:

"Don't ask me about that, it is what is is. We can never say it's unfair that [Lionel] Messi wins the Ballon d'Or. It's a show, a nice business to make football more entertainment. A big compliment to Alexia [Putellas], Pedri, Leo."

Many believe Lewandowski deserved to win the award last year when France Football decided against handing out the accolade on the back of the pandemic.

Source: https://newspremises.com.ng/guardiola-blasts-critics-who-claim-its-unfair-to-award-messi-the-ballon-dor/

This year's stolen award has tainted all the previous awards won by Leo. It shows he is curropt and a petty thief and Guardiola supporting him equally means he is a big thief

Maybe they should have awarded a 2nd Ballon d'Or for 2020 to compensate Lewandowski for his exploits that year.
But as for 2021, Messi has won it.

gardiola has not acheive anything in football until he move to teams like acmilan,spurs,dotmund,porto and wins the champions league, he is just as fraud like messi.

Malory:
This year's stolen award has tainted all the previous awards won by Leo. It shows he is curropt and a petty thief and Guardiola supporting him equally means he is a big thief

omor....it seems F.G go extend this 1 week of mourning for haters to 1 month o.
haters n their wailing are becoming new every morning...
dis one say, this award has tinted all other 6 won by leo bt d award cr7 stole from Ribery in 2013 didnt tint his other 4 awards bcoz cr7 own all gat tint proof abi??
u too sabi ball jhare, ever since messi won dt Monday evening, i noticed dt this cr7 fans are getting too Smart by d day for me to comprehend..

kenzysmith:
gardiola has not acheive anything in football until he move to teams like acmilan,spurs,dotmund,porto and wins the champions league, he is just as fraud like messi.

face the message n ignore the messenger but since u want talk, let me skul u..
pep is the most successful coach in EPL in d last decade...
a coach dt is running monopoly in epl, broke records, have best win ratio n av won 8 trophies in jus 5 seasons including 3 EPL in the so called most difficult league in Europe n u still asking him to move to a small club to prove to u dt he is d best even after he won in spain, Germany n now in the hard EPL....
fergie Is called d greatest EPL coach ever bt i never saw him move to other big or small club in Europe, he stayed all his life with united England but now its pep u asking for a move to small club.....walahi u too get sense jhare, sky sport suppose Gv u work as a sport editor..
d way una de reason eeh...

WibusJaga:


Maybe they should have awarded a 2nd Ballon d'Or for 2020 to compensate Lewandowski for his exploits that year.
But as for 2021, Messi has won it.

yeah... dt was d plan bt dey changed it....I read a post online talking about messi plea for lewa to get his own award n that "Ferrer" guy said dt the tradition cant be changed bcoz of sentiments, dt lewa had a good 2020 n deserved an award bt d tradition says dt "DEY MUST BE VOTES COUNTED BEFORE A PLAYER CAN BE GIVEN AN AWARD"..
he said the system may change in future bt its not a personal decision n dey cnt just give him bcoz messi pleaded bcox it would cause more controversy n i agree wit him..
if the organizers choose to give lewa his own award at home mayb next weeek, alot of critics n messi haters will all say dt messi is controlling the organizers or say na messi won more bcoz he is dier boy...
this life u cnt please everybody, dnt even try

it would been much better if the critics were doing it out of love for Lewandoski.

kenzysmith:
gardiola has not acheive anything in football until he move to teams like acmilan,spurs,dotmund,porto and wins the champions league, he is just as fraud like messi.

Alex Ferguson should've moved to those teams you mentioned to prove himself. Since he didn't, according to you, hes even a worse fraud than pep who has coached more than one team

paulolee:

face the message n ignore the messenger but since u want talk, let me skul u..
pep is the most successful coach in EPL in d last decade...
a coach dt is running monopoly in epl, broke records, have best win ratio n av won 8 trophies in jus 5 seasons including 3 EPL in the so called most difficult league in Europe n u still asking him to move to a small club to prove to u dt he is d best even after he won in spain, Germany n now in the hard EPL....
fergie Is called d greatest EPL coach ever bt i never saw him move to other big or small club in Europe, he stayed all his life in England...
d way una de reason eeh...

well spoken bro...u ae truely a football fan.am not a Messi fan or Ronaldo fan, but I love football.

This particular award did not come with peace of mind for Messi this year

Messi will still win it next time

While messi former boss is backing him
Ronaldo ex boss algeri is backing messi

Nke a agbasaghi m..........

Blast em Haters the special one!!!!

History will always be there ..... U transformed Messi into a weapon of mass destruction!!!

Don't mind them pep,
They can only bla bla bla...

The trophy is already in the GOAT"s shelf,
Messi didn't vote for himself he was voted for.
All this bitterness should stop..
And cr7 fans, make una forget am.
He can't equal this.

In zlatan voice "am not a sch boy"

Malory:
This year's stolen award has tainted all the previous awards won by Leo. It shows he is curropt and a petty thief and Guardiola supporting him equally means he is a big thief

Cry me a river �

Malory:
This year's stolen award has tainted all the previous awards won by Leo. It shows he is curropt and a petty thief and Guardiola supporting him equally means he is a big thief

Sorry you hear.

“Corrupt and petty thief”? Be who?

Anyway we understand una Ronaldo fans. Na una cry pass and we know why. No cry again otherwise small time we go just dey see people like una dey dance blues with any transformer we dey around una.

We all know Pep is not a good coach, he is not winning the champion league again, no matter the club and money spent.

Oh my God, we are so surprised he is supporting Messi

Mstcheeeew

This lady below should just go rock his man’s dick instead of wailing everyday.

He should focus on how to win champions league.

Chelsea coach achieve it on less than a year.

I thought the winner was selected through a ballot system from sports journalists and football coaches...why then is there so much controversy surrounding this award?

Useless Guido

In 2020, most leagues were canceled meaning other players didn't have a fair chance to compete for the Balon d'or even the UCL that was continued was unusual with one off games in the knock out phase and even on neutral grounds.

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