I'm sure for even the majority of you who don't follow football, Messi is a name known to most. He's in my opinion the greatest footballer to ever grace the game, capable of mesmerising magic that makes you question the laws of physics.
Butttttttttt
It's just not deserved. Messi was still a top, top player, deserving of 2nd place, but I believe that the actual 2nd place, Polish striker Robert Lewandowski should've pipped him to the post.
In a standard 34 game Bundesliga season, a striker would be having a good season if he scored 15 goals. That's a respectable tally. A great season would be 20 goals in those 34 matches.
Lewandowski missed 5 games due to injury, playing 29 league matches.
He scored 41 goals. Forty one. A league record, backing up his goals with a Bundesliga title. Nobody was touching him, this year, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Messi did fantastically to be La Liga top scorer and help Barcelona to secure a 3rd place league finish. But he was poor in the Champions League (whilst Lewa kept banging them in) and had a very, very rocky start at PSG.
So yeah, I'm a little pissed off. What pisses me off more is Jorginho finishing 3rd.. when he wouldve been lucky to hit top 10.
I know nobody gives a shit but meh, wanted to post this anyway.