Lionel Messi was topped FIFA’s The Greatest Males’s Participant of 2023 this week however there was loads of debate across the choice and Stan Collymore believes Man Metropolis’s Erling Haaland ought to have been named the winner.
In contrast to the Ballon d’Or, The Greatest award was unique to 2023 and didn’t embody Messi’s unbelievable achievements on the 2022 FIFA World Cup, due to this fact, many felt that the award ought to have gone to Man Metropolis’s Erling Haaland.
That may be a feeling Stan Collymore shares as he felt that the striker’s achievements in 2023 have been “superior” to the remainder of the competitors.
The Norway worldwide took the Premier League by storm, breaking information and serving to the Manchester membership to a primary Treble.
Writing in his newest unique column for CaughtOffside, Collymore has shared his opinion on particular person awards and has referred to as for adjustments to be made to the voting standards.
“Lionel Messi profitable FIFA’s The Greatest Males’s Participant of 2023 reveals that these particular person awards in soccer have misplaced the whole lot within the cult of superstar as the standards for voting didn’t embody the 2022 World Cup, which if it did, the choice is truthful sufficient,” the pundit stated.
“These awards must be based mostly on what gamers received, what did they add to their crew, what have been their particular person stats and so on.
“I believe what we’ve now, based mostly on the previous couple of years, is these awards being FIFA’s method of taking awards across the World and guaranteeing that they fall into Messi or Ronaldo’s palms in order that they are often pictured glad-handing the sheikhs and the large politicians.
“If we’re taking a look at stats and achievements from 2023, Man Metropolis’s Erling Haaland ought to have picked up this award as he was far superior to any of the opposite contestants. He got here into the World’s hardest league and broke the goalscoring document, which may be very spectacular.
“If these awards are to carry any credibility going ahead, they should cease being a magnificence pageant and begin being selected some correct standards.”
