Who, if anyone, has reached the sort of numbers in 2024 that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were posting when they were respectively the same age?

However, the Ballon d'Or has long generated as much controversy ... "It was unfair," the former France winger told the Gazzetta dello Sport in 2022. "It was an incredible season for me, and ...

Vinicius Junior did not win the Ballon d'Or in 2024, but Karim Benzema is convinced the forward will be acknowledged in the ...

"All the work I did, I never gave up. It was a childhood dream," Benzema said about winning the 2022 Ballon d'Or. Another decade likely needs to elapse before players grow up saying the same thing ...

Benzema won the Ballon d'Or in 2022 after a season in which he led Madrid to a LaLiga and Champions League double -- a feat which wasn't enough to see Vinicius handed the prize two years later.

Rio Ferdinand left Ally McCoist stunned by telling Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to complete an incredible January transfer.

Napoli beat Jurgen Klopp's Reds 4-1 with Kvaratskhelia impressing after causing the Liverpool defence all sorts of trouble ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice for Al-Nassr in a 3-1 victory over Al-Khaleej to move atop the Saudi Pro League goalscoring standings above Aleksandar Mitrovic and Karim Benzema ...

Ronaldo's second spell at United ended in November 2022, with disagreements between ... "Vinicius deserved the Ballon d'Or," Ronaldo said. "It was unfair (to lose it). I say it in front of everyone." ...

The contrast with City’s response to Erling Haaland losing the 2023 Ballon d’Or to Lionel Messi is stark. Haaland enjoyed one of the greatest individual seasons in modern football in 2022/23 ...

Salah came closest to doing so in 2019 and 2022, when he finished fifth in ... one of the early favourite’s for next year’s Ballon d’Or, though, following a sensational start to the season.