Journalists voted for Messi for the BdO, and people cried about how it's the players who should vote for the award as they play the game.
Then the players voted for Messi for FIFA's award and people started crying about how players are clueless and don't know the criteria, and how journalists and reporters should be the ones voting as they're objective.
You simply cannot please some people.
FWIW, Messi deserved the BdO for the World Cup as it's the biggest prize in football if you ask every single player out there who has the chance to play in it. I don't think he deserved the FIFA award he just won.
But guess what? Keep crying losers.