{"id":295724,"date":"2023-11-01T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=295724"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:24:05","slug":"messi-winning-the-ballon-dor-is-disgraceful-says-ex-psg-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/messi-winning-the-ballon-dor-is-disgraceful-says-ex-psg-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi winning the Ballon d&apos;Or is &apos;disgraceful&apos;, says ex-PSG star"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lionel Messi winning the Ballon d&#8217;Or is &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; as &#8216;he wasn&#8217;t even the best player at PSG&#8217; claims former France international Jerome Rothen&#8230; as he insists Erling Haaland deserved top award<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lionel Messi is &#8216;inferior&#8217; to Erling Haaland, said ex-PSG player Jerome Rothen<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rothen said Messi wasn&#8217;t even the best player at PSG during his time there\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or victory has been branded &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; by former PSG player Jerome Rothen.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland should have picked up the trophy because of his titles with Manchester City, the ex-France international said.<\/p>\n<p>Messi collected his eighth Ballon d&#8217;Or on Monday night after winning the World Cup with Argentina and Ligue 1 with PSG.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He beat off stiff competition from 52-goal man Haaland, who won the Treble with Manchester City and scored the most goals in a Premier League season ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s disgraceful! Of course it&#8217;s disgraceful,&#8217; the pundit raged on RMC Sport\u00a0show Rothen s&#8217;enflamme (&#8216;Rothen catches fire&#8217;).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/11\/77266803-0-image-a-23_1698839807589.jpg\" height=\"308\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jerome Rothen ripped into Lionel Messi on his RMC Sport show, saying it was &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; that he had won the Ballon d&#8217;Or\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/11\/77266895-0-image-a-24_1698839874483.jpg\" height=\"449\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Messi picked up his eighth Ballon d&#8217;Or after winning the World Cup in 2022 with Argentina\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/12\/77267021-0-image-a-25_1698840036736.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland fired Manchester City to the Treble with 52 goals and Rothen sees him as the deserving winner\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As far as I&#8217;m concerned, it should have gone to Haaland. From August 2022 to June 2023, what criteria lead us to say that Leo Messi is above the others? There&#8217;s hardly any criterion where he&#8217;s number one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If we look at his record, he&#8217;s inferior to Haaland, even though he won the World Cup. Haaland won everything with Manchester City. And of course you can&#8217;t compare him with the World Cup, because Haaland is Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At PSG, Messi wasn&#8217;t above the rest, he wasn&#8217;t the best player at the club. It&#8217;s problematic that a guy who&#8217;s won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, who&#8217;s supposed to be the best player in the world, isn&#8217;t even the best player at his club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have to stop being delirious! And over the last four years, he&#8217;s won two Ballon d&#8217;Or awards. So for me, it&#8217;s disgraceful. I&#8217;m hallucinating.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Messi masterminded Argentina&#8217;s World Cup final victory in Qatar, scoring two against France in a historic match and netting in the penalty shootout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also scored 21 goals and recorded 20 assists for PSG in all competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rothen&#8217;s sentiment is reflected in many football fans who feel that Haaland&#8217;s record-breaking season is worthy of the top honour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He powered drove City to a maiden Champions League title and represented a tactical shift for Pep Guardiola as the Spaniard depended once more on a number nine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/12\/77267211-0-image-a-26_1698840151873.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rothen claimed that Messi was even the best player at PSG during his time at the French club<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/12\/77229631-0-Lionel_Messi_received_a_guard_of_honor_from_his_Inter_Miami_team-a-27_1698840512917.jpg\" height=\"406\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi received a guard of honor from his Inter Miami teammates on Tuesday morning<\/p>\n<p>Rothen was incensed with the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;I&#8217;m told that this Ballon d&#8217;Or must be given credibility? But there&#8217;s no credibility left!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Messi celebrated with the success with his Inter Miami team-mates after returning to their Fort Lauderdale training base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He posed with the team and embarked in a playful guard of honor while other players popped confetti and held cut out signs of the number eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12697483\/Lionel-Messi-winning-Ballon-dOr-disgraceful-wasnt-best-player-PSG-claims-former-France-international-Jerome-Rothen-insists-Erling-Haaland-deserved-award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi winning the Ballon d&#8217;Or is &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; 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