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Fabrizio Romano’s Bold Take: PSG Loanee and Real Madrid Star Should Have Made Ballon d’Or Top 30

6Sep

By Silver Emmanuel3 Comments

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Fabrizio Romano’s Bold Take: PSG Loanee and Real Madrid Star Should Have Made Ballon d’Or Top 30

The list for the Ballon d’Or was revealed this week, but transfer expert Fabrizio Romano believes that three names were omitted. Here are the names that made it into the final 30: Jude Bellingham Ruben Dias Phil Foden Federico Valverde Emiliano Martinez Erling Haaland Nico Williams Granit Xhaka Artem Dovbyk Toni Kroos Vinicius Jr. Dani Olmo Florian Wirtz Martin Odegaard Mats Hummels Rodri Harry Kane Declan Rice Vitinha Cole Palmer Dani Carvajal Lamine Yamal Bukayo Saka Hakan Calhanoglu William Saliba Kylian Mbappe Lautaro Martinez Ademola Lookman Toni Rudiger Alejandro Grimaldo Still, Romano noted in his column for CaughtOffside that there are a couple of players who should have the final 30. One of them is Paris Saint-Germain loanee Xavi Simons, who had an excellent 2023-24 season while...

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