Purely a fame award.
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Donāt see what made Carlos and Alves āa lot more spectacularā than Trent. More goals? More screamers?
Trent is in that category, there is no (big) difference between them. But yeah, the reality remains that itās difficult to win it.
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There have been a few more. Breheme definitely got the recognition around the time of the German trio running things at Inter. Maldini did a couple of times as well. Pretty sure Breitner did as well although may not have been playing FB at that time.
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On the contrary, Real is the only club he would have any vaguely realistic chance of winning it with.
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Clearly not enough to get his name right
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Apologies)
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Trent is an extremely good long passer, thatās it. Everything else is so-so. Thatās not enough to make him one of the best footballers. No, never.
Two of the most highly rated ones with a similar profile are Kross and Pirlo, who were never near the top 3 for the Ballon dāOr (and I think both are hugely overrated). Even though they donāt have significant weaknesses like Trent, he needs time and space for his execution, which is why he never succeeded as a midfielder.
Yeah, he could be a legendary RB, but itās hard to consider him the best footballer in the world.
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Goals yes, and also going past your opponent.
And while neither were lockdown defenders, they werenāt viewed as a defensive liability that Trent has been branded.
And at the end of the day itās a popularity contest.
I donāt think those differences in style matter so much among masses (itās not even fans picking winners anyway, though most journalists are also fans), popularity, chances to win or whatever.
Whether itās Carlosā ability to kick a ball (and yes he can also shoot incredibly well and hard) down the touchline and running past a player or two (even Riise could do that at his best when he didnāt become too heavy with his bulking up), Alvesā incredible link up game and delivery, Trentās incredible playmaking from the first two thirds of the pitchā¦ it has the same value.
Trent is highly popular as all those mentioned full backs, as they should be.
Those players had international glory though (Vini has also been pretty disappointing so far for Brazil, in a time when Neymar has been missing a lot, that for example goes under the radar when half the world cries about him not winning the last award), which Trent didnāt get so far through competition, bad timing of injuries here and there, etc.
Carlos himself had weaknesses in his game and if Trent was viewed such a liability (amount of social media also affects it) not among fans, but also coaching staff, he wouldnāt play where he plays. He wouldnāt continue playing where he plays, regardless of coaches trying in midfield.
For me, itās a combination of sometimes focus and also he possibly peaked already for the full back position and his body cannot do all that his mind wants. Things are not linnear in football, you get funny developments (better or worse) and evolutions in different aspects of a player. Not all things peak at the same time. I mentioned Riise up there and he recently said in an interview about how his weakness was 1v1 defending. He was better defensively when he was younger and leaner.
Anyway, regardless of what Trent said, yeah, I bet even he knows that it will be incredibly hard to win it.
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Totally disagree. If Real have the kind of season where their players are in line for a Balon dāOr, the right back isnāt getting a look in.
His best chance of winning that bauble is to be the best player in a team that has a great season
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Exactly. Win the PL and CL in a non World Cup/Euro year with us while putting in a Mo level season and a half of assists plus 10+ key free kick goals plus several from open play. Heād get lots of (legitimate) praise domestically and in the media and then perhaps heād be in with a shot. No way this happens and is followed by the same amount of sympathetic coverage in Madrid.
Out of curiousity, do you think the future of Ancelotti, at Madrid, has any bearing on Trentās possible exit to RM?
Seen a few saying Trent will sign new deal at Ā£325k for 4 years.
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Joyce gave a very cryptic 
tweet yesterday. Emerging news on Trent is an obvious possible interpretation of that
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Going to say this:
Believe nothing until heās been announced as signing a contract elsewhere.
That said, with Salah and van Dijk being announced, you get the sense that heās agreed a deal with someone, because now the spotlight is going to be on him.
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Havent read it, but iāve always believed that Trentās mind isnt yet made up - as there have even until a month or so ago noises that the club were still trying to strike a deal with him.
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Yes, but alonso or Klopp ending up there would prob still be fine by him.
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It was just
That was the tweet
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What does usually mean. Not being an ancient Egyptian, Iām not too good with hieroglyphs.
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I suspect here it probably just means all eyes on Trent now Mo and Virgil have agreed new deals
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