Debate on Kylian Mbappé and Ballon d'Or

Anybody but Kylian Mbappé should win the Ballon d'Or. Elaborate. Why? Anybody but Kylian Mbappé should win the Ballon d'Or. That's, that's my opinion. Why, why not Mbappé then?

Because Kylian Mbappé arrived to Real Madrid two seasons ago. He left PSG, a team where he was scoring all the goals in the world, winning countless golden boots in France, and considered by most people one of the best players in the world. He left PSG, which he had been aching to do for a

while, to join a team that had just won the Champions League, and he joined them to accomplish a goal. What was his goal? To do so. To win the Champions League, which would then propel him to winning the

Ballon d'Or, right? Because scoring goals for PSG wasn't enough to get him that. He joined a team that won the Champions League to build on that and

affirm his, himself and his legacy by winning the ultimate prize. In two years at Real Madrid, he hasn't accomplished his goal. He has just done exactly what he did before joining Real Madrid, and all the meanwhile, the team he joined, who were on top,

have not... There's no direct correlation, but there is, so there - Overlap, yeah ... there's causation. It's not correlation, but there is some causation to it.

They have literally got worse. They haven't won a major honor in either of the years he's there. Meanwhile, the team he left, again, I'm not saying a direct correlation, but again, causation, have won the two honors

that previously avoided him that entire time. 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 25 league goals. 18 of them came before January. He scored less non-penalty goals than Moriki for Mallorca, who got relegated. In the Champions League, he won the top scorer by scoring

15 goals. 13 of them came against the group phase. You wanna know who they came against? I wrote them down. Yeah, Clara There we go. Two times against Marseille.

There we go. Three times against Kairat, four times against Olympiacos, two times against Monaco, two times against Benfica. That's 13 of his 15 Champions League goals in the group phase.

They come largely before the second half of the season. 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. Right? Harry Kane could have also won the Golden Boot if he played in that final game. He literally sat it out because it's that irrelevant of a game, and he has the nerve to talk about, "Well, I'm the top scorer of World Cup history." Well, mate,

that's an award that you got over three tournaments. Yeah. This is a single year award. 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.

I don't care how many goals Kylian Mbappé scores. You get awarded the Pichichi and the Golden Boot for that, but 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 50 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. So to answer your question, I don't think it's a great Ballon d'Or year,

but I definitely believe Mbappé should not win it. Take your pick of anybody else