The only two players who have merit to win this Ballon d'Or are named Karim Benzema and Robert Lewandowski. Lewandowski is the killer, he has been a Golden Boot, he has passed 40 goals again, he is a machine. Bayern are the bomb. If they give it to him, it would be poetic justice, because, furthermore, last year it didn't happen. He would deserve it.
But more poetic justice if they give it to Benzema. It would be the award for pure football, true football, art football turned into a silk striker. If football wants to be honest, that we finally believe it, that it is not a golden machine as it has been seen now with Newcastle, they should give it to Karim Benzema. It would be one of the most beautiful and recognizable awards, the demonstration that football is in the nobility.
The rest of the players … Haaland scores a lot of goals, Mbappé is explosive and generates a lot, but I don't see any for the Ballon d'Or. Let's end the joke, if they give it to Messi, I will be permanently erased from the Ballon d'Or. It would be the biggest scam of 2010, when they gave it to them after making a fool of themselves in the World Cup and they took it away from our Xavi and our Iniesta. Now it is OK. The joke once bad, but twice it would be heavy. If you want the Ballon d'Or to have credit, don't give it to Messi. It would be the cookie prize, not the Ballon d'Or“.