I see guys talking shit about how Neymar never won a ballon d’or, but we can say that his competition being ronaldo and Messi it was hard for him to achieve that goal, what’s ya’ll opinion?
He was never any better than Bale, Hazard, Robben etc. He was put on a pedestal because
a) He was the emerging star of Brazil, the nation most synonymous with great footballers, and
b) He played alongside Messi.
Woah there. I’m a chelsea fan and I’ll tell you right now he is NOT worse than hazard, nor was he worse than bale or Robben. Like in every single way he’s better than both of them.
The way he manipulated the ball and the things he could do… Messi is the best dribbler I’ve ever watched but Neymar is a close second. You can’t even call Ney an aesthetics merchant either because he has better stats than all the guys you mentioned.
He was an incredible footballer and in literally any other era of football he would have won 2 or 3 ballon d’ors. Just unlucky to be playing with Messi and Ronaldo.
