Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi defined the global game over the past decade or so with both players almost exclusively winning the Ballon d'Or award year after year.

After Mbappé was named man of the match for his hat-trick for PSG against Barcelona, Haaland picked up MPV against Sevilla in the Champions League.

Zinedine Zidane fielded three Real Madrid Castilla players (Marvin, Sergio Arribas and Chust) during Tuesday's LaLiga clash against Getafe and I said at the time that the club's financial and sporting problems offer an ideal springboard for younger players from the youth system

AS columnist Alredo Relaño says that Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski would have been the rightful winner of this year's cancelled Ballon d'Or.