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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ithe world cup distortion is valid though-- i think it deserves the extra weight, which also increases the stock of james rodriguez or mascherano and decreases zlatan or ribéry.
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OK, everyone (me included) has raved about his performance in the WC, in which he actually only scored 3 goals, with two of those against a Spain side in full-on meltdown mode. Even Van Persie outscored him. And we can hardly talk about Robben contributing much in other areas. He did his usual running-really-fast-then-cutting-in-to-the-left thing supremely well but, in all honesty, that's about all he did do. I'm not suddenly saying he had a bad WC but in retrospect it's hard to say anything really outstanding about it besides breaking a speed record.
He did win a Bundesliga title, though, with a Bayern team that were hardly not gonna win it. And yet even so, he wasn't even voted one of the Bundesliga's top 3 players at the end of the season - voted for by his peers in the league. He didn't even make their top 3 forwards list. Not that I take those kinds of polls very seriously but it does raise the question of what he's done this year to lift his reputation to the level where he's now seen as a serious contender for the Ballon D'Or.
At 30, his current market value is reckoned to be about £30m. Ronaldo's just a year younger and valued at over £100m. The numbers aren't clear cut but that's a helluva difference.