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patrickmuf:
Excuses as usual.

It's Copenhagen and not Madrid or City...You're sounding like a troll right now.

eph12:
LMAO. All those nonsense talk

eph12:
Garnacho needs to be played consistently and coached properly. He needs to make all his mistakes now and learn from them. I have a lot of faith in his talent, it should not go to waste

YourBestWriter:
There's a massive agenda against manutd by pgmol, and all you lots talk about is erik ten hag. Una mumu neva do?

Jodera:
Lol.... I'm not downplaying it. It's not a major trophy to be "up-played" to start with.

The only person to win the world best with that scrap trophy is "el phenomenon".
He's a monster and Tbh, it wasn't that Europa that made him won that world best

metodman:
The boy lost it a long time ago and I think that was when his development got stunted. He hasn't improved in years. He's talented, no doubt.... but he's not developing, especially with his one-way kind of play.

Jokerman:
🚨🚨🎙️| Erik ten Hag on Marcus Rashford having a party hours after the Manchester derby:

“Yes I am aware of it. I spoke with him about it. It is unacceptable. I told him, he apologised and that's it. No further words, it is an internal matter.”

Jodera:
Forlan didn't win the world cup
Forlan didn't win his league
Forlan didn't win UCL

The only thing Forlan did was
Best player in world cup
Then Europa (which isn't weighty).



My basis has always been world cup year and club achievement.

Messi won best player in 2014 World cup, yet didn't win world best

Messi Won same best player in 2022 world cup, then won world best.

What do you think is the difference?

Jodera:
Wc exploit is the basis na.

Anyways, you just no wan gree say R9 winning world best with Europa is not in a WC year.

afrodoc2:
If Ronaldo no send you Christmas hamper we go protest. Isheloshe
🤣🤣🤣

Jodera:
I talked about threshold.

Ronaldo won world best with Europa by breaking the threshold


Which threshold Forlan do wey dem wan recognise am with Europa?

Jodera:
Like I said, that's not a world cup year. If it was, I doubt if he'd have won it. I'm sure he would have done 3 peat if Brazil had won it in 98 and not Zidane (which I believed WC esp that final aided his world best).

R9 was a monster in 96/97. Aside smashing the goal record in la Liga and Barca (something it took years before Messi broke), he won all the trophies Barca participated in aside La Liga (in which Barca finished 2nd) and he was the overall goalscorer in all(supercopa, Copa del Rey, uefa cup). Add his mesmerising skills and dribbles then you'll imagine how he was feared. In Brazil that same year, he won Copa America and confederation cup too.

With the fact that it wasn't a world cup year and nobody reach his back in terms of performances, who do you think FIFA would give?

That's the football threshold I was talking about that he broke.

Something Forlan never did even though he won Europa.

As it 97, I don dey hear R9 name oo. That time, my eyes never even strong for ball.

Meanwhile, I didn't even hear Forlan name (na just Messi and Cr7 we dey hear) until world cup proper.

Na that person you want make dem dash overall world best with Europa?

raumdeuter:
In a year without an obvious contender, a strong 3months is enough to sway voters

Jodera:
That's even better.

That wasn't a world cup year plus he was massive head and shoulder above anyone.

I understand and was told he broke the overall goal record in la Liga which no one has done before.

He was just like how Haaland was last season but he was more breathtaking adding dribbles and tricks to his.

It there was no WC last year, then Haaland would have definitely won it no doubt

Jodera:
Who won Golden ball in 2010 and what was his achievements in club side?

afrodoc2:
Yes. It was a wonderful 3 months. Wikipedia can't explain it to you.

afrodoc2:
You have got your sequence of events muddled up a bit bro.

afrodoc2:
He had moved to Barca before he won the award.
He won it for his exploits in the 2nd half of the 1996 (1st half of the 96/97 season. The first 3 months of that season was mad as he and Davor Suker went head to head until he left the Croatian in the dust. Also most of his goals were spectacular rather than ordinary. He was injured for a large chunk of the preceding season in PSV so it was definitely that Barca early season run that got him the 1996 award.

Jodera:
Well, true.
I'll let it go.

At least, I didn't watch them live to know the reason why a 20yr psv boy would be crowned world best. I guess they're some things wiki can't probably tell us

olabode89:
Lmao... you will be alright.

Jodera:
His exploits at Barca aided him na(especially as Barca Is a big club)

olabode89:
Dude... what is your problem?

Jodera:
but 95/96 he didn't win any Balon dor na. Was that the year you said he won Europa?

Jodera:
R9 was different.
His exploits was very very very massive, so he broke that threshold that will limit the others

Jodera:
it's now I even remember sef

Balon dor that year is just like uefa best this time. Any good player can win it but World best then is the Koko.

It's the reason someone like Owen, nedved, shevchenko and co won while big guns like Zizzou and Dinho were winning world best. It's just like how Jorginho won uefa best in 2020.

2010 is where everything changed and that's where the overall world best was Balon dor. It'll be difficult for Forlan to enter top 3. Maybe if it was 2006 he did that exploits, he would have been crowned a Balon dor winner or a top 3

Expert17:
I remember Anthony and Gakpo argument 🤣

Christobam, eph12 and co how far?

Jodera:
Lol...
His only performance was in world cup.
Nobody takes Europa seriously then and certainly uefa can't give someone top 3 for finishing 9th in his league.

For R9 to win Balon dor and world best while winning Europa, then he must certainly be massively head and shoulder above anyone else to break that status quo that year