Manchester United captain Ashley Young will not be joining Inter Milan next summer neither will he be signing a pre-contract agreement with other clubs having be given a one-year contract extension. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge fan of the 34-year-old and feels his presence at the club will be useful to the younger players in the team. Although, the decision to keep him at the club haven't gone down well with fan who vented angrily on different social medias. Some of the tweet reads; "How the might have fallen.. " Another aggrieved post reads: "The more Man U fans want to escape the more the owners give them pain". Another reads: "This Ole and Co. are really taking us for granted. You can't be renewing Ashley's contract while there are real loopholes to cover.. it's getting out of hand". Sad ones goes this way: "Why, just why would you do that? He is part of the dead wood that they need clearing out "This ...
Another year, another catastrophic decision made by the Ballon d'Or organisers who gave the once prestigious trophy to a player who don't deserve to win it.
Its really embarrassing to know that Lionel Messi won the award ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk who both outperformed him with both club and country.
Cristiano Ronaldo was arguably the best of trio having won trophies with both club and country. The 34-year-old captained Portugal to the inaugural Nation's League against Holland and lifted two domestic trophies with Juventus.
Added to that, the Seria A Player needs just 6 goals to become the highest goalscorer in International football and yet, Lionel Messi who only lifted the La Liga title with Barcelona beat him to the Ballon d'or? It doesn't make sense..
No disrespect to Messi he is an incredible player, he scored 46 goals with 17 assists in a season that saw Barcelona heavily rely on him for inspiration and goals.
He single-handily won the La Liga title for them but just couldn't do in the Copa Del Rey final or Champions League semi final where he faced Liverpool's best player Virgil van Dijk.
Van Dijk was colossal, the dutch captain turned Liverpool's once leaking defense into the best in the world by shoring up the back and helping the likes of Andrew Robertson, Trent Alexander Arnold and Joel Matip improve tremendously.
Joe Gomez and Dejan Lovren are now top defenders and this is down to Van Dijk.
What makes Van Dijk better than Ronaldo and Messi is that the dutch captain improves everybody and not just himself.. There's no defender or fullback that won't improve playing alongside Van Dijk, he just makes everybody good.
Sadly, that world class ability have been overlooked for marketing, media attention and endorsement deals.
In all honesty, winning the Ballon d'Or does not prove a player is the best in the world, it a useless trophy that currently have no value.
If the likes of Wesley Sniejder {2010}, Didier Drogba {2012) Franck Riberty {2013) Manuel Neuer {2014}, Gigi Buffon {2016} and Van Dijk {2018} have all been denied from winning it just to compensate Messi and Ronaldo then of what value is it to football?
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