Dani Alves: "I've had it up to here with the Ballon D'Or. It's as if the player who does the best campaign has the best chances of winning, it's a circus.

For me the player who should win it is the best player in the world, who scores goals and wins titles.

If you have to win best player of the year, your goals need to win your teams titles.Cristiano has to be more decisive. He’s always scored goals, but important ones?

With all due respect to Sweden, they were goals in a playoff, this can’t be considered important; it’s a playoff, please!

For me credit comes from qualifying directly, not by a playoff."

So what is he implying? That Messi wins it again? Ribery is the tied candidate for Ballon d'Or with Ronaldo, and Ribery has scored less than half the goals Ronaldo has. Does that make him less important or talented as a player than Ronaldo? No. This is ludicrous. Alves is just simply trying to make up an excuse to convince others to vote for Messi once again.

If we followed the Ballon d'Or voting by Alves' principles, no defender, or goalkeeper would ever win the awards.

Well Alves is Brazilian. One Brazilian thought that Neymar was better than Messi.

^ Until Messi and Barca thrashed Santos 4-0, that is. After that game, a certain Brazilian stopped making comparisons between Neymar and Messi.

^ Haha, I remember that.

Although i agree with the principle of "important goals that win titles mean more than many goals that win nothing" judging the Ballon d'Or is not right since, like Dy pointed out, keepers defenders and midfielders also should have a fair shot at winning it.

I think Alves just hates on Ronaldo. But it seems like the "criteria" in which the winner of the Ballon d'Or is changed every year. However he is kind of right by saying Ronaldo mostly scores useless goals, minus the tie with Sweden. However he's scored some great game winners in the Liga recently.

@tdot

I do not consider any goal to be "useless". Every goal plays an important factor in the game. Whether it's the first goal in a 5-0 drubbing, or the only goal in a 1-0 final, it plays an important factor in defining the outcome of a match.

And Ronaldo has scored 32 goals (out of 66) in the year of 2013 that had a direct change on the outcome of his team's scoreline (changing it from loss to win, loss to draw, or draw to win), including goals against United, Juventus, Dortmund, Barcelona, Atletico, and Sweden. Hardly what you would call "useless" goals.

Not sure that we should even give such a ridiculous statement the time of day.
CLEAR TROLLING. That's all. would Alves had said all that if he was sold by Barca last summer? Don't think so.

@Dynastian:

Perhaps Alves is just getting a bit cocky after nutmegging him in the Clasico :)

@Rama

Lol, probably. ;)

okay with Alves logic.
Arsenal get into champions league/fa cup final.
Bendtner score in both finals and Arsenal win 1:0
so he deserve Ballon d´Or?

^What are you talking about? Don't you know the system?

If Bendtner scores 5 goals: Ballon D'Or
If Bendtner scores 10 goals: Ballon D'Or and UEFA Player of the Year
If Bendtner scores 15 goals: Ballon D'Or, UEFA POTY, and automatic World Cup for Denmark
If Bendtner scores 20 goals: World War Three

thanks god he don´t even have 20 appearences :D not goals.

It is not secret that club boards tell their players to make comments about their best players and back them up . Just like finally Madrid players started backing up Ronaldo , Alves is doing almost same . He is rudely discrediting opposition player which is unethical and stupid of him to disrespect other professional for sole purpose to back up Messi . Also I always thought Alves has an IQ of 50 and very two faced personality , so I would not give much attention to what he says and never did ever since his comments about Chelsea.

@ Dyn

You're right but there are such things as useless goals. Scoring when the game is already beyond won is useless.

@tdot

Not necessarily. On the case of the 2011-12 EPL season, it really all came down to how many more goals City or United scored. If that ever came down to Real and Barca, God bless us, because the only thing separating mine team and yours then would be all the "useless" goals you claim to exist.

@ Dyn

That involves more of the entire team we are just talking about individuals though

@tdot2barca " However he is kind of right by saying Ronaldo mostly scores useless goals, minus the tie with Sweden"...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!.....takes deep breath........HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

If Ronaldo score useless goals all the time, Messi and Ribery must score useless goals all the time. I mean its pointless to see Messi score hat tricks against weak teams because they are useless right? /s

Even if they are weak teams and "useless" (by your definition), goals show consistency. Isn't it why Messi has won Ballon d'Or for 4 years? 1 or 2 Ballon d'Or might not have been deserved but Messi is one of the top players (or the best) of the game because of how consistent he is. I don't think you are going to deny that Ronaldo has been very consistent. It is also laughable if you think Sweden was the only important goals he scored. You should really watch more Real Madrid games.

I know some of you are going to say this and I'm going to say that goals are not the only way to show consistency in the game. Xavi, Ribery, iniesta has shown it by assisting and dictating the game. But goals are part of consistency and I've just explained above the reason.

Yeah you guys are right but I'm just saying scoring a goal after you're already winning by 3 or 4 goals while dominating the game is pretty useless to me. If all his goals are so important then where are the trophies?

@ heavenduel

"If Ronaldo score useless goals all the time, Messi and Ribery must score useless goals all the time. I mean its pointless to see Messi score hat tricks against weak teams because they are useless right?"

Compare what Ribery and Messi have accomplished in the past four years with what Ronaldo has then tell me who scores useless goals.

"Even if they are weak teams and "useless" (by your definition), goals show consistency. Isn't it why Messi has won Ballon d'Or for 4 years? 1 or 2 Ballon d'Or might not have been deserved but Messi is one of the top players (or the best) of the game because of how consistent he is. I don't think you are going to deny that Ronaldo has been very consistent. It is also laughable if you think Sweden was the only important goals he scored. You should really watch more Real Madrid games."

I didn't say anything about weak teams. It is very common for big teams to lose to smaller teams. Messi has won the Ballon d'Or four years in a row because he is the best player to ever play the sport. I'm not saying Ronaldo is not one of the greats but he is not in Messi's category when it comes to goals, trophies, reputation, etc, you name it.

Lets leave the Messi VS Ronaldo argument out of this?

By the way "1 or 2 might have not been deserved" can be argued. If this is what you argue and if anyone agrees with this then they agree that Ronaldo DOES NOT deserve the Ballon d'Or ahead of Ribery. Firstly, it is argued that only one, not two isn't deserved. This was in 2009-2010 when many thought the award should have went to Sneijder because he won the treble. Now, lets compare. In that same season, Messi won the league title, the UEFA super cup, the Club World Cup and the Supercopa, four trophies, while netting 47 goals and 12 assists in 53 appearances in all competitions (club only). He scored 34 league goals in a single season which equaled Ronaldo's previous record and then won the Liga player of the year. Sniejder on the other hand proving to be instrumental for both club and country, during Inter's treble winning season, scored 8 goals and gave 16 assists in 41 appearances for his club, and brought his country to the WC finals.

Now how about Ronaldo and Ribery? Ribery in the 2012-2013 season proving to be instrumental for Bayern won the treble while scoring 16 goals and 23 assists in 53 appearances for club and country (better than Sneijder, but did not do anything with his national team). Ronaldo in the same season, netted 62 goals and 14 assists in 68 games for club and country but won NO trophy (not even close to Messi's goal scoring/assist stats or trophies). In the current season he is on form with 38 goals and 7 assists in 29 appearances for club and country, while third place in La Liga and having played an instrumental role in carrying his national team over Sweden to the World Cup group stages (still a long way to go, no real success here).

Messi in the year where he "undeservedly" won the Ballon d'Or won four trophies including the league title ( and some mickey mouse) with great stats, while Sneijder won the treble. Ronaldo where many people so call claim that he deserves it this year scored a bunch of goals in the past 2-3 months and hasn't won jack shit last year while having less stats than Messi claim he deserves the Ballon d'Or over Ribery who won the treble. Therefore if Messi did not deserve his award then if Ronaldo wins it he does not deserve it at all either. People just want him to win it because a player with his talent deserves more than one Ballon d'Or, but sucks for him because of the time-frame he lives in.

a barca player saying ronaldo doesnt deserve the award.... As expected it would be blaspemous if he say Ronaldo should win the award and not Messi it will affect the locker room atmosphere for Barca