Critique of Mbappé's Ballon d'Or Claims

Anybody but Kylian Mbappé should win the Ballon d'Or.

How can you go to accomplish a goal, fail to do it, do the

exact same thing individually that you were doing before, and claim

that you

deserve to win the biggest honor in all of sports?

That is the most delusional thing I've ever heard in my life.

To then go and say, "No player had a better season than me

last year

because I scored all of these goals and I was a top scorer in all these

competitions."

You wanna really break down each one of his competitions.

In La Liga, he scored twenty-five league goals.

Eighteen of them came before January.

He scored less non-penalty goals than Moriki from Mallorca who got

relegated. In the Champions League, he won the top scorer by scoring

fifteen goals. Thirteen of them came against the group

phase.

You wanna know who they came against? I wrote them down.

Yeah, Kyrat.

There we go.

Two times against Marseille.

There we go.

Three times against Kyrat, four times against Olympiacos,

two times against

Monaco, two times against Benfica.

That's thirteen of his fifteen Champions League goals in the group phase.

The World Cup, the Golden Boot, amazing World Cup from Mbappé.

I can't take anything away from that.

But again, he won the Golden Boot off a third place

game that, by the way,

Harry Kane didn't even play in.

That's even before you get into his actual performances, which I'm sorry, any

Real Madrid fan that watched Mbappé last season can say he scored all the goals in

the world, but his overall play left a lot to be

desired.

You couple that with the fact that, again, he's won nothing.

Not for Aston Villa, not for Atlético Madrid, not for AC Milan.

For Real Madrid and France, he won zero trophies.

Let's stop acting like this guy's an underdog at a small team,

and he's being let

down by his teammates. He plays for two of the biggest clubs

and countries in the

game. The Ballon d'Or will never be about how

many goals an

individual scores. You get the Gerd Müller trophy for that,

man.

And then my final point, for him to come out and say, "I

look at the last few Ballon d'Or winners, and bar Messi and Ronaldo, I

wouldn't swap places with any of them." Let me ask you this, Mbappé,

would any of them swap places with you?

Would Rodri swap any of his recent seasons for yours?

Would Ousmane Dembélé swap his best season for yours?

Would Benzema swap his best season for yours? What,

because you scored fifty goals?

These guys completed the game, and this guy is talking about,

"I wouldn't swap my

position for them."

That, for me, it, it, it reeked of a guy who

has completely lost, like, sense of what the actual objective of the

game is.