Re: The Official Ballon d'Or 2014 Thread - Part 2

by Bankz Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:20 am

So who was named among the top 10?

by M99 Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:23 am

El Shaarawy wrote:
Arquitescu wrote:Deserved. 100% fully deserved. The Ballon D'OR on this forum is much too scrutinized and discussed to a point of encircling. Yet I am happy that Cristiano once again has clinched the title in amongst the herd of moaning sheep wanting Neuer to win for 'revolutionizing' a position in sweeping beyond just keeping despite Gigi Buffon setting the precursor for that post 2002. Or the inordinate amounts of Messi hopefuls who will find all reasons from Budapest to Bamako on why the dour Argentine should have won over his Portuguese counterpart.

Ronaldo went against all odds by the grace of perseverance and work ethic in storming Europe in a ballad of consistency and drive to which has never been seen before. Broken have been the membrane in which separated the comparison of him at Manchester United and Real Madrid as surpassed has been the doubts that enshrouded that he cannot surmount Messi to the top.

Yes, his incredibly absurd mate cry followed by the obvious embarrassment of that abstract noise will rather unnecessary in a room full of ramrod straight sapiens thinking of how they can look as buffered as bronze as Cristiano is routinely done during these ceremonies.

Yet completing a back to back award for being the best player of 2014 and completing the ever delectable trio is worthy of Cristiano Ronaldo doing his best attempts in summoning the Cthulu as inevitably his detractors will use this rush of blood noise to detract from the fact that he is champion of the world.

Congratulations Cristiano. You deserve nothing less.

Where the hell have you been? You didn't join us at the semi-meltdown last week ffs

Might be a full meltdown if we don't manage to win again today

Oh God we have a match today? Should be given time to cool of our heads ffs

by Pedram Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:29 am

Dante wrote:
BarrileteCosmico wrote:Anyone got a higher definition picture of this?

https://i.imgur.com/9uLspaW.png

here you go BC

Spoiler:

by BAYERN_MUNICH Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:59 am

Bankz wrote:So who was named among the top 10?

1. Cristiano Ronaldo 37,66 %
2. Lionel Messi 15,76 %
3. Manuel Neuer 15,72 %
4. Arjen Robben 7,17 %
5. Thomas Müller 5,42 %
6. Philipp Lahm 2,90 %
7. Neymar 2,21 %
8. James Rodríguez 1,47 %
9. Toni Kroos 1,43 %
10. Ángel Di María 1,29 %

by BarrileteCosmico Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:11 am

Lewandowski had to come out and publicly apologize for not voting for Neuer as the top 1,what a joke Laughing

by Hapless_Hans Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:16 am

BAYERN_MUNICH wrote:
Bankz wrote:So who was named among the top 10?

1. Cristiano Ronaldo 37,66 %
2. Lionel Messi 15,76 %
3. Manuel Neuer 15,72 %
4. Arjen Robben 7,17 %
5. Thomas Müller 5,42 %
6. Philipp Lahm 2,90 %
7. Neymar 2,21 %
8. James Rodríguez 1,47 %
9. Toni Kroos 1,43 %
10. Ángel Di María 1,29 %

Popularity contest for the top 2, after that come the real greats :coffee:

by M99 Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:39 am

There should be a you cannot vote for your teammates (both NT and club) rule.

by BarrileteCosmico Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:42 am

If guess Neuer has a legitimate reason to feel angry as he was 0.04% away from 2nd place

by DeviAngel Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:49 am

https://vine.co/v/OD5ZWuw5mmO

LMFAOOOO

by titosantill Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:29 pm

M99 wrote:There should be a you cannot vote for your teammates (both NT and club) rule.

that's actually a very good idea

by Hapless_Hans Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:11 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Lewandowski had to come out and publicly apologize for not voting for Neuer as the top 1,what a joke

way to go, FC Bayern Thumbs up

by Doc Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:48 pm

http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/2241854/german-media-questions-ballon-dor-as-manuel-neuer-finishes-third

Totally understandable from the German media but sour grapes is the main course. Still, something about typical Germans...

ESPN wrote:Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski, meanwhile, has expressed his regret at voting for Ronaldo ahead of Neuer.

"It was a mistake to vote for Ronaldo," the Poland international, who left Borussia Dortmund in the summer, said in kicker. "Today, I would clearly vote Neuer, but I voted back someday back in August (sic) and would vote differently today."

Lewa my darling, have no regrets. You voted with your heart and soul.

by Hapless_Hans Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:55 pm

Doc wrote:http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/2241854/german-media-questions-ballon-dor-as-manuel-neuer-finishes-third

Totally understandable from the German media but sour grapes is the main course. Still, something about typical Germans...

ESPN wrote:Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski, meanwhile, has expressed his regret at voting for Ronaldo ahead of Neuer.

"It was a mistake to vote for Ronaldo," the Poland international, who left Borussia Dortmund in the summer, said in kicker. "Today, I would clearly vote Neuer, but I voted back someday back in August (sic) and would vote differently today."

Lewa my darling, have no regrets. You voted with your heart and soul.

That's not the end of it, now his agent is claiming he didn't say that stuff to kicker and he has no regrets anyway.

At which point I forcefully have to say, who gives an actual *bleep* Laughing

by jibers Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:03 pm

The godfather has spoken ffs :bow:

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by Great Leader Sprucenuce Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:15 pm

Not quite true, journalists vote doesn't count anymore.

In fact it was better than they did.

by BarrileteCosmico Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:16 pm

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Not quite true, journalists vote doesn't count anymore.

In fact it was better than they did.

Sure it does, it counts for 1/3 of the vote. I agree it's a farce though, it would have been better if they never merged the awards.

by Dante Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:19 pm

jibers wrote:The godfather has spoken ffs

Clockwork Approved

Cruyff ffs , saying it exactly as it is .

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:19 pm

I was led to believe that's what's changed from the old system where Sneijder and Ribery would of won it?

by BarrileteCosmico Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:47 pm

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I was led to believe that's what's changed from the old system where Sneijder and Ribery would of won it?

In the old system for the BdO only the press vote counted and for the PotY the captain vote counted for half and the coach vote counted for half.

In thew new system for the FIFA BdO the press vote is 1/3, the captain vote is 1/3 and the coach is 1/3 too. So effectively the new award is 1/3 Old BdO and 2/3 PotY

by rwo power Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:54 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:If guess Neuer has a legitimate reason to feel angry as he was 0.04% away from 2nd place

When asked exactly about that by a reporter, Manu Neuer just grinned and replied. "I don't mind, I'm a team player - and my team are the World Champions." (paraphrased)

by titosantill Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:51 pm

whilst many are still in the ballon d'or spirits (whatever that means), this was kinda cool
cristiano introduces son to messi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsUyIcBgjc

http://www.marca.com/en/2015/01/13/en/football/real_madrid/1421186453.html

the marca link has the translation ......now back to regular business, i would have said, i'm glad the whole golden ball thing is done, now we can stop hearing some random player, coach, agent, manager, brother, etc talking about who deserves what

by Arquitecto Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:31 pm

Fußball wrote:Typical gloryhunting Arq tbh. Since Liverpool, Milan and Athletic aren't doing too well he's mostly posting with his 2nd account now as Katy Perry.

Liverpool and Milan have always been my only two clubs. Local clubs are Brescia and La Real. Support any Basque team yet show more for Athletic considering they fly the Euskadi flag how its supposed to be.

Probably typed this information a 1000 times on this forum Laughing