Messi snubbed as Bale, Ronaldo, Griezmann up for UEFA Best Player award Aug 5, 2016 10:19:03 Uefa The Argentine failed to make the top three for the Best Player in Europe accolade in favour of the Real Madrid duo and the Atletico and France striker Lionel Messi has been left out of the top three shortlist for the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Antoine Griezmann in the running. Messi was not even placed fourth in the long list of 10 candidates as Barcelona team- mate Luis Suarez bumped him down to fifth. Ronaldo is favourite for the award, having led Real Madrid to their 11th Champions League win in 2015-16, before being crowned European champion with Portugal after seeing off France in the final at Euro 2016. READ MORE | Messi keen to discuss Argentina future PLAY Bale, meanwhile, also won the Champions League with Madrid, while inspiring Wales to the semi-finals at the European Championship. France striker Griezmann lost the Champions League final with Atletico, and was also on the losing side to Ronaldo at the Euros, although he was crowned top scorer with six goals. The award, which Messi won last year, is voted for by journalists from UEFA's member nations. Gianluigi Buffon, Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer and Pepe were the other players on the long list. The winner will be announced on August 25, the day of the draw for the Champions League group stage.

Not even Messi snubbed....Suarez??

bykebyke:
Not even Messi snubbed....Suarez??

they shuld go win there southamerican awards

playboy99:
they shuld go win there southamerican awards

TheGoodJoe:
The award is based on the Just concluded Euro.

both UEFA champion's league and Euro.

TheGoodJoe:


The Euro takes massive consideration if not, Bale would not be there ahead of Suarez.

Seems you have forgotten Barcelona didn't reach the semi final. But Bale went on to win the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid!

TheGoodJoe:


So to you, Bale was a higher rated player than Suarez in the Champions League. It is not about just winning title but performance.

Bale Won the Champions League, Greizmann did not but you and I know Greizmann will get a higher rating.

imagine!

what rating has a player that played two steps below the final match?
Bale was instrumental to the Real Madrid glory.

Before mentioning Suarez, one would have mentioned Robert Lewandoski. He had more goals and surpassed Suarez's Barcelona stage last UCL.

TheGoodJoe:

I talked of Bale vs Suarez. If we are talking Champions League, I doubt Bale had high assists, Bale did not score any goal. If we use Champions League, Bale was not a better player than Suarez.

Suarez scored 8 goals. If Suarez had low rating in the Champions League, he would not be on the Champions League team of the competition.

This is a Euro pick. When we go to the World Best ratings, Bale will get missing.

What do you expect, he has to be rated in the 2015/16 UCL for the fact that he had the third highest goals in it.
6 forward players were listed, how possible is it not to have the third highest goal scorer that reached the quarter final?

I don't talk on list not released.