There is a very simple reason why Ousmane Dembélé won the Ballon d’Or by a landslide.
The award is not automatically about the best player, but the player who’s had the best year. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah quicken the pulse, and enjoy the backing of passionate fan-bases, but neither of these fine entertainers delivered a year as good and successful as Dembélé did with Paris Saint-Germain. That’s why I voted for him.
