OFFICIAL FOOTY THREAD ⚽️: Rodri wins 2024 Ballon d’Or

[Belgium]

This is tragic and a robbery. There are so many performances where Vini put the team on his back and did what a BdO does. Nobody can say the same about this Robri. I never once watched this man take over a game last season and thought to myself wow this guy is the best player on the planet right now.

Dude's a CDM. He's easily City's most important player, I don't think there's even a reasonable debate that De Bruyne or anyone else is more important to their performance.
Rodri isn't flashy or anything but he carries that team.

I think City is a disgraceful club that should be relegated into oblivion, stripped of its titles etc, and severed from state-ownership, but I think Rodri's dominance as a CDM and especially his level of consistency is well worthy of winning the Ballon D'Or this year. The guy barely has a bad performance in him.

I wouldn't say Vini winning would've been undeserved but an attacker obviously has a more flashy role, and Vini was very dominant in the CL.
What's going to stick in people's minds is Vini slicing through defences with ease, not Rodri or anyone else in his position. Same reason why Carvajal isn't getting anywhere near as much praise as he deserves.

 

[jape]

 

[Bantz Lord T]

Forgive him. He scarred them eternally.
Fragile fanbase. LM8

They genuinely think Messi’s camp can rig everything from a World Cup to a Ballon d’Or he isn’t even in the running for

 

[tomdiginson]

I'm loving the energy of this thread right now

 

[cs02132]

At least they didn’t give it to Bellingham

 

[rolaholic]

Let's ******* gooo

 

[cs02132]

United are dumb.. they really let that fa cup win cloud over a historically bad season and wasted a bunch of money and 6 more months just to fire him now

 

[blackmomo]

Not a finalist for player of the year in your league but Ballon d'Or winner????

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

u forget
the defense that vini faces literally plans their gameplan to stop him and fouls him non stop
rodri is not planned against
lookup whos been fouled more

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

Not a finalist for player of the year in your league but Ballon d'Or winner????

u must hate barcelona by that logic

 

[rolaholic]

Not a finalist for player of the year in your league but Ballon d'Or winner????

We had a whole discourse in here about how he wasn't even Spains best midfielder at the Euros and not deserving the POTT but now he's the unquestioned B'Dor winner

Guys got it

 

[rolaholic]

More junping on it

 

[sneaksoy]

United are dumb.. they really let that fa cup win cloud over a historically bad season and wasted a bunch of money and 6 more months just to fire him now

Agree with all of this.

But I’m glad they didn’t let the sunk cost stop them from doing it now.

Hopefully there’s a decent plan for getting a good replacement but I can’t say I trust the board to get it right given the recent track record…

 

[jape]

We had a whole discourse in here about how he wasn't even Spains best midfielder at the Euros and not deserving the POTT but now he's the unquestioned B'Dor winner

Guys got it

Who is we?

 

[rolaholic]

Who is we?

This thread

Yamal deserved it, but any of their midfielders were good picks

 

[Belgium]

Not a finalist for player of the year in your league but Ballon d'Or winner????

Awards have generally favored attacking players. The closer your position is to your own goalie, the more likely they won't receive the praise they should.

Exhibit A: Mousa Dembélé from Spurs. Throughout his prime years here, Spurs players repeatedly unanimously named him as the best player in the team, by far. Not Son, not Kane.
Kane and Son likewise agreed and said Dembélé was easily the best in the squad and would bully everyone in training. Yet who won the awards and all the praise? Kane and Son.
The praise for Dembélé mainly came from other top players, not the pundits.

Exhibit B: Carvajal this year. He has been incredible and quite consistent despite his age. But he's not a flashy attacker so he doesn't get praised as highly as he should.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Yamal, Nico, Olmo and Carvajal were all better than Rodri at Euros.

 

[jape]

I’m loving all the conspiracy theories from the Madrid fans. Didn’t expect to see that on NT but here we are.

Messi
Barca journalism
Al Khaliefa

What else? Did yall forget the votes get publicized?

And we haven’t even gotten a real confirmation of the winner yet

 

[jape]

 

[rolaholic]

Yamal, Nico, Olmo and Carvajal were all better than Rodri at Euros.

Dunno for Carvajal but Fabian Ruiz for sure

 

[ajiiiplatinum]

They genuinely think Messi’s camp can rig everything from a World Cup to a Ballon d’Or he isn’t even in the running for

Madrilistas and Ronaldo fans are the MAGAs of the soccer world. They already have it good but then claim everything is rigged when they dont get their way. It’s all a conspiracy.


Messi and Ronaldo were on another level… a level we have not seen for a while so even if they didnt win titles everyone knew they were the best.
Since they departed Europe it has not been that clear who the best is so they went with the guy who won 2 big trophies and was a captain and a main contributor to success. Guardiola always praises Rodri and touts how he is the most important player in the Pep system.

 

[Armada]

I actually hope Vini wins it somehow so all these people crashing out over the Balon Dor was for nothing.

 

[jape]

Dunno for Carvajal but Fabian Ruiz for sure

Who got the POTT?

 

[ajiiiplatinum]

Btw
No one on the pitch in Saturday’s clasico deserved to get the Balon D Or this week…sheesh the amount of open goals missed were ridiculous.