Based on the performance of the whole year of 2023, this final list of three Player of the Year is very controversial.
There will certainly be no problem with Haaland's selection, and in terms of team honours, he won the treble of the season at Manchester City, including the Champions League. His personal data is also quite gorgeous, breaking the Premier League single-season goal record and winning the Champions League Golden Boot, Premier League Golden Boot, and European Golden Boot. As far as 2023 is concerned, Haaland's stats are the best and the accolades are the most. No one will question Haaland's selection, after all, team honours and personal data go hand in hand.
The controversy is mainly over Messi and Haaland, with Player of the Year looking at the performance of the whole year.
Neither Messi nor Mbappe will have too much team honor in the whole of 2023. Messi and Mbappe's team honors are only French champions, and their weight is definitely not as good as Champions League champions and Premier League champions.
And the number of goals scored by Messi and Mbappe in 2023 is not as good as Haaland.
Messi's Ligue 1 title and Ligue 1 assist list were selected as the final trio of FIFA Player of the Year, which was not convincing enough.
Mbappe is also difficult to convince people to enter the list as the Ligue 1 champion and Ligue 1 top scorer.
In terms of performance in 2023, Rodri and De Bruyne, who performed well in the Champions League, are in the final three, which is more objective than Messi and Mbappe.
It is true that De Bruyne missed too many games due to injury in the second half of 2023, but Messi went to the MLS, and it is certainly not appropriate to compare the performance of the MLS with the performance ......of the five major leagues