I was thinking about this for awhile, and was wondering if anyone else felt that people are hesitant to award Premier League players with the credit they deserve?

Eg. Am I crazy or was Haaland not winning the Ballon D’or really disrespectful towards the Premier League?

He set the goals record, and won the treble.

You Look over the list of winners and in the premier league era only Michael Owen and Ronaldo have ever won it while playing for a premier league team.

How did Henry not win it in 2003?

I feel like now that he is dominating a much poorer league Harry Kane is finally getting the respect he deserves.

Jude Bellingham is getting bonus credit for doing it for Real Madrid.

  • Big_Department_9221@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Nothing like that per say, i think this happens to players across leagues and what matters is PR. I might get downvoted for this but Griezmann for last 1.5 seasons is as good as any player in EPL but he was 21st in BallonDor.

    Owen - got lucky imo.
    Henry - robbed
    Lampard/Gerrarad - unlucky to be in same year as Ronaldinho
    Ronaldo - deserved winner
    Torres - slightly lucky, on pure merit he wasn’t the 3rd best player in the world maybe top 5 though
    Suarez - he had the bad PR- like racisty guy who bites people and also didn’t play UCL. Keep in mind despite being arguably the best player in the world in 2016 he couldn’t crack top 3 ballondor even with Barca backing- so its more to do with player than the league
    Messi 2018- he was 5th lol, no way.
    Salah- deservedly top 3, he was never at any point the best player in the world barring few gamedays
    VVD - it was the tightest ballondor imo - only lost it cos of the out of the world messi season and even then it was so tight
    Haaland - same again, coinciding with something extra ordinary always creates that situation. Keep in mind Dinho lead Barca to a League and UCL double after 12 years and lost the Balondor to Cannavao in 2006

    I think there has been 3 players who were the absolute best in the world in ability backed by stats at any point in time in last 23 years in EPL - Henry, Ronaldo, Suarez. EPL is more of a collection of amazing players spread across doing well in teams than the absolute best players in the world in 1-2 teams.

    If you take top 10-20 players in history, I can only recall Charlton, George Best, Ronaldo who played in EPL and 2 of them played like 50 years ago. If you expand that to top 50 you will probably have like another 5-10 players as well. So that tells you so far, the absolute best players in the world don’t necessarily play in EPL - but this can change going forward considering the shift in economics imo.