Among all the Balon D'ors stolen. Haaland's own was very painful. Imagine getting these awards and accolades. Yet it wasn't enough to win you the Balon D'or, simply because the award was reserved for the fancy little child.
Erling Haaland — 2022/23 (Manchester City)
Appearances: 53
Goals: 52
Assists: 9
Goal contributions: 61
Minutes played: 4,138
By competition:
Premier League: 35 apps, 36 goals, 8 assists
UEFA Champions League: 11 apps, 12 goals, 1 assist
FA Cup: 4 apps, 3 goals
EFL Cup: 2 apps, 1 goal
Major team trophies:
Premier League
FA Cup
UEFA Champions League (Treble)
Individual awards (highlights):
Premier League Golden Boot
UEFA Champions League Golden Boot
European Golden Shoe
Premier League Player of the Season
FWA Footballer of the Year
Now, the goalposts shifted. It was said that the World cup had a major influence on the Balon D'or rankings, since it was a World cup year.
However, in 2010, winning the world cup didn't ensure that Iniesta won the award. Also, Wesley Sneijder having a beautiful run didn't meet the criteria as well. It was Messi's 47 goals and 11 assists for the season and 60 goals and 17 assists for the calendar year that caught the eye of FIFA.
Lol, three things cannot long be hidden. The sun, the moon and THE TRUTH.
There are still children in the world confused by why so many people don’t like LeBron. This is a perfect example of why so many people can’t stand him.
His agent and best friend, Rich Paul, has a podcast dedicated to being the voice for LeBron while LeBron gets to sit back and act innocent.
100% of the time, if a player’s best friend and agent had a podcast trashing Luka, Austin Reaves, and other Lakers, the media would ask that player about it. Yet not one time has the media asked LeBron, “Hey your agent is talking crap about your teammates. Don’t you think that’s a little weird, and why aren’t you speaking out against it?”
The media is so scared of Klutch and so many are owned by Klutch that they would never dare ask LeBron that question because it would be the end of them.
For those dumb enough to think otherwise, in any normal situation you would tell your best friend and agent to STFU and stop talking about your teammates. You’d do that for a lot of reasons as an adult man, unless you were the one encouraging it.
This situation has summed up LeBron and the NBA media in a nutshell.
Max Kellerman: The team would’ve functioned better had Luka dribbled a little less, LeBron been playing point more… I felt like (LeBron) needed to assert himself a little more.”
Rich Paul: You're not wrong.
If Mbappe continues with this performance and France win the WC, he is winning Ballon d'or.
Team trophies are overrated if you are not the main driver of the trophy run.
PSG won UCL but Kvara (not Dembele) was the UCL player of the season.
Meanwhile, Mbappe won the HGS in UCL, La Liga and likely WC.
This dominant performance in WC will not go unrewarded.
He is getting Ballon D'or if France win, regardless of Dembele's PSG winning UCL.
Justin Baldoni and wife Emily Baldoni speak publicly for first time since legal battle with Blake Lively:
“We’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like how could something like this even happen?… Let alone disguised as a fight for women”
It seems you’re responding to implications and not what I actually said. You put a lot of thought into my laugh, which I guess is flattering.
I’m well aware of your journalistic credentials. I interned at The Inquirer when you were a columnist. I often tell young people that you became what you became because you were one of the best NBA writers in the country.
Draymond and I had a broad journalistic discussion about the relationship between players and reporters, where I used myself as an example of how doing daily television kept me at a distance from the people I was actually discussing. I didn’t mention you. I honestly wasn’t even thinking about you. That discussion wasn’t about you at all.
I didn’t say I’d been in more locker rooms than you and never implied that. You swinging at ghosts, my guy. I don’t have a problem with you. If I did, I’d tell you to your face.
What is the evidence of this in the last few years. You Tatum clowns have failed to accept that JB has produced just as much or better in the last 2/3 years.
Has there ever been a duo before where the talent gap was this large but basically the entire media landscape and most fans just pretend thats not the case?