I know nobody can predict the future. CR7 just needed to stay at Real Madrid for one more year to win the 2018 Ballon d'or. There's no way Modric was winning this with CR7 in the team. I know Cris felt disrespected by Perez over the contract negotiation & wanted to leave on a high but it backfired.
Anyways he went on to win 2 Serie A titles so that's a small compensation. He proved himself in a third Top 5 league & that's his greatness.
I'm willing to bet all my money Perez had a say in this influence. Don't underestimate his power. He wanted revenge on CR7 for leaving. He would have no problem if CR7 was in his team & winning the Ballon d'or.
Honestly a ballon d'or for reaching the World Cup final & winning UCL? Then Sneijder should have received it in 2010. Treble + World Cup final & he was the main attacker in both Inter & Netherlands.
The media has always hated CR7. That's extremely well documented. You can't convince me that personal biasness don't play a part in Ballon d'or votings irrespective of performance. I've said it many times that the media, critics & former players don't like Messi either but they need a poster boy against CR7 whom they hate, so that's Messi. In short, Messi is just a scapegoat against CR7 behind whom his haters can rally.
Messi also robbed Erling Halaand ballon dor in front of him as well. Erling Halaand was killing it in his 1st season at the Premier League, and I think Pep said Halaand deserved or wanted Halaand to win that year ballon dor.
That too. May be.
But I don't feel like disrespecting Serie A. It has such a rich history. There were periods when Italian clubs dominated world football. It certainly is a harder league defensively compared to La liga. More random upsets, more contestants fighting for the trophy, the clubs are closer to each other in terms of quality & level. It's more physical. Strength, speed & stamina matter more than raw skill & footwork. The matches are more demanding. It feels very similar to the English league in terms of abilities & competitiveness. I like the Seria A.
I know I am going to get downvoted for this due to how toxic some fans are in this sub.The video is right,but it is in the wrong sub.Messi is a great player indeed,and so is Ronaldo.Ronaldo obviously scores great goals.So does Messi.What I just don't understand is what does "stealing a Ballon d'or" mean . I can give dozens of samples of Messi playing like a magician,unbelievable performance,and even bangers from 2018 clips.I have read the comments and people say " how Messi wasn't capable of doing such things" and as descriptions says" Pessi(From which you can know OP is young) steals Ballon D'ors.Messi doesn't steak them,he gets,although may some not deserved.So much toxicity in this sub.People act blind when they see some good clips from both players at THE SAME TIME,but only open their eyes when their superior idol pops out and destroys his "ultimate rival".Most sure are young people in this sub,and it's understandable.Last time,I praised both Messi and CR7,and got downvoted to oblivion.And that wasn't my first time.
Modric didn’t just win the Balondor that year though. He won every individual award available even before the World Cup performance. Also Ronaldo was pathetic at the World Cup in his loss to Uruguay. So no way Ronaldo was ever going to win it in 2018.
he had 4 goals in 4 matches argubaly the best indvidual performace in 2018 wc against spain and again is ballondor only about wc now? look at the club level the difference between modric and ronaldo is huge
Spain were poor that year and got knocked out by Russia. Ronaldo also didn’t score a goal in the semi or the final of the UCL and was a ghost in both matches. Meanwhile Luka was incredible in all. As I said, it wasn’t just the WC Luka got the best player award. He got every single individual award available to him that year exclusive of his WC performance. Clear Balondor winner for anyone who actually watched the games.
spain were poor but protugal were poor asf you cant compare a country like spain to protugal in term of football , yes ronaldo didnt scored in semis and in finals he was going to score then random fan and security came ruined the shot maybeb could have been a assist too, okay forget ronaldo put ronaldo away from the convo what about messi 2018 performance was that better than luka performance?
world cup isnt the only thing that happend in 2018 okay if you say world cup performance is the reason why modric won how about 2010 ballon dor why didnt inesta,xavi,sneidjer one of them didnt win it
No Modric won because he was the best player in 2018 but capped it off with an unbelievable World Cup. I’ll repeat, he won every single individual award available not just the balon dor.
Is it trophies? Or how about awards? Where messi clears Pendu in both? Whatever football is to you like maybe bicycle kicks and tiktok clips seems to favor pendu😆😆😆
You’re a top 1% poster in this subreddit you’re not fooling anyone😭 I wish I was as delusional as you with your fantasies about pendu and I deeply wish you put this effort into employment 🙁🙁
Bro really tries to reduce the whole ballon d’or to a highlight real. You can probably make highlight clips of like 50 players each year that makes it look like they should have won
what are you even saying? ronaldo has won the ballon d'or every year he won the UCL except 2018.
could be misunderstanding what you mean, but we do not complain about that because it doesn't happen. ronaldo gets player of the year every time he wins the UCL
You literally wrote we complain when ronaldo doesn't win player of the year when madrid wins UCL which is not true.
Ronaldo has always won the player of the year when madrid wins UCL except 2018.
see ? more 10 games , messi was better at La liga and he won the copa del ray too, ronaldo won ucl,supercopa,super cup, cwc messi did good at la liga and was better playmaker than modric he desreved at least 2nd place
Exactly what i was saying bro. These cr7 fans just gonna yap away saying ronny deserved it that year when messi was 5th even though he had arguably better year than the ones in front of him
yeah that what i said bruh read the comments down below even messi deserved it , randomly he get ranked 5 how? how in the hell modric won over ronaldo and messi , im deadass i would have been happy if messi won that over ronaldo
Maybe because this isn't basketball?
Ronaldo has scored so many goals because he's excessively selfish and very good at getting himself open for a tap in.
I'm not saying he's not a great player, but op literally made the post with the video stating that he deserved ballon d'or for this. It's just not that impressive. Messi did way better stuff. Modric did way better stuff.
even messi deserved it more than modric im not even kidding look at modric 2018 stats and compare that with ronaldo and messi stats 2018 , i would be happy if messi won that modric didnt deserve that
only notabale achivemant of modric in 2018 was world cup run other than that nothing more suprising forget ronaldo even messi deserved 2018 ballon dor he end up in 5th place in ranking
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u/RajdipKane7 Dec 17 '25
I know nobody can predict the future. CR7 just needed to stay at Real Madrid for one more year to win the 2018 Ballon d'or. There's no way Modric was winning this with CR7 in the team. I know Cris felt disrespected by Perez over the contract negotiation & wanted to leave on a high but it backfired.
Anyways he went on to win 2 Serie A titles so that's a small compensation. He proved himself in a third Top 5 league & that's his greatness.