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.
Since about 2010, pretty much every winner has been playing for a Spanish club or was Lionel Messi.
Since 2000, I think there has been about 7 non-Spanish club winners, and two of those were Messi.
In the last 23 years, there have been 5 times that the whole top three were all at Spanish clubs and only three years where none of them were.
There have been only two premier league winners since 2000- Michael Owen in 2001 and Ronaldo in 2008. Only 11 Premier League players have even featured in the top three in that time compared to 38 from La Liga.