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Yeah, they introduced a women Ballon d'or (voted by sports journalists covering women competitions) and the "Raymond Kopa prize", a trophy for the best u21 player (voted by former Ballon d'or winners).

Ok my bad, thought you were talking about the 2-0 victory, which I haven't been able to watch (but heard FDJ was superb).

Pogba wasn't there, it was Nzonzi. He's still a pretty good player, but nowhere near what Pogba offered during the WC for example. The rest of your argument still stands though, since the general level of our player was - individually - supposed to be higher than our opponent's.

Yeah, I agree with that too, but it's more an argument you can have about NT football as a whole, actually. It's pretty obvious that the best NT in the world can't really compete with the best clubs in the world, first of all because a club can just buy any player to fix a weakness (whereas...

I can totally get that people got bored watching France play, but that has nothing to do with the determination and concentration of the players on the pitch. Unless you think that Belgium lost to France because they didn't care about going to the finals. Whereas it was pretty obvious that...

I think what he meant was that players don't really give a shit about Nation Cup, while any pro would probably kill for a chance to win the WC. Thus a pretty blatant difference between the 2 competitions. Nation cup is slightly above friendly games, in terms of motivation, agressivity, and...

Lyon has a very good squad, but a rather poor manager. The likes of Aouar, Fekir, Ndombele and Ferland Mendy will end up in top tier teams in one or two years, Memphis (whom I doubted a lot when he signed) is impressive these days, and they have quite a few above average players in their ranks...

Yeah, signing Neymar was a huge boost for PSG, BUT since then, Mbappe became something else. I'd wager they could just capitalize on the Kyky's hype, and sell Neymar to buy 2-3 great players who could help them be a serious outsider in UCL (they desperately need at least one good midfielder and...

I have to agree with BBZ on the fact that Rabiot is a good player. And I'm pretty sure he would add something to the team, if he signed. There's imho no denying that, on the pitch, a player like him would be a good asset, especially for free. Can't imagine the hype that De Jong would get if he...

Wait, which format do you prefer ? (that's a serious question, not sure I understood your post correctly). Because sports journalism is far from perfect, but iirc the voters for the BO are from the most "serious" papers/websites in every country usually. France Football for example is not the...

From 2010 to 2015, the Ballon d'Or was called "FIFA Ballon d'Or", because it merged with FIFA player of the year award. Captains and coaches from every NT voted, and as always with the FIFA POTY, it all came down to pure hype, with many silly votes from several captains/coaches (go google it if...

He's slowly improving, and benefits from the multiple injuries of Youssouf Sabaly to start quite a few games, but I don't think there's a lot to expect there. He's too weak for Bordeaux (which says a lot), even though it's not by a huge margin. My previous post about him still stands, basically.

Interesting, tell me more about that bias regarding an award in which journalists from all around the world vote, and that no French has won since Zidane (who only got it once) ?

Individual trophies in a team sport are pretty dumb. How are you supposed to know if Messi would crush it in the same way in a different team ? What's the exact importance of the team in his success, and of his performances in his team's success ? Would Barcelona still win La Liga with Dembele...

I don't even know why you're answering me, I didn't say it was fair or anything, I EXPLICITELY said that it was just the way it worked. But anyway, you don't even make sense when you say that Messi and Ronaldo performed during "11 months". I's blatantly wrong. First of all, votes are closed on...

When you say "Messi and Ronaldo performed the whole year", you mean "the whole year except for that june-july period during which I heard there was an amateur tournament going but I don't know much about that" ? As Wolfe said, it's easier to perform after a WC that you didn't play, or barely...

First of all, it's funny that you're only using his Budesliga accuracy from two years ago, and not his UCL accuracy from the same season (74, still not crazy high but 7 points higher than the number you used), or from last world cup (84.4), or even from La Liga and UCL this season (between 80...

I've read that, but I think it mostly comes from an interview with a France Football journalist who mentioned the top 3. He said those names in that order, but he didn't specify that it was the actual order (so the final three could be any combination with those 3 names). That being said, this...

Well I do hope he's not picking cherries out of his ass.

Thanks. It's true that I'm a funny guy. I don't really see how that's supposed to have anything to do with knowing "what will happen with Malcom in a few months" though, but since logic seems to be your strong suit I'll assume it's just that I'm the one to blame for not being able to grasp it...