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On Wednesday, the shortlist was released for another of football's most prestigious prizes — a place in the FIFPro World 🎉 XI — and again only one Liverpool player made the cut. This time, it was Virgil van Dijk rather than 🎉 Salah.
The second is that, unlike other awards, this one is solely in the hands of the players, rather than journalists, 🎉 pundits or pundits. According to FIFPro, nearly 22,000 men's players cast their votes for this year's team.
You can't dispute most 🎉 of the names on the list of attackers. Erling Haaland shattered records in firing Manchester City to the treble, Lionel 🎉 Messi produced an all-time great World Cup campaign to lead Argentina to glory, and Kylian Mbappé combined a spectacular performance 🎉 in the final with 41 goals at club level. Elsewhere, Karim Benzema bagged 31 goals for Real Madrid, Harry Kane 🎉 got 32 for Spurs and Vinícius Jr. mixed 23 goals with 21 assists.
Salah, meanwhile, netted 30 and set up 16 🎉 more in all competitions, and clearly, based on Kane's involvement after a season in which Spurs finished eighth, collective woes 🎉 aren't an automatic disqualifier. Still, you wouldn't feel too aggrieved if any of the other forwards claimed the last spot 🎉 alongside surefire inclusions Haaland and Messi. The real problem is that Salah wasn't nominated at all.
On that basis, it's egregious 🎉 that Ronaldo features on the shortlist, and it's pretty clear that he's only there on the basis of his pre-existing 🎉 global reputation. Some would question how much all of this really matters compared to team success, and whether Liverpool supporters 🎉 should really care. Jürgen Klopp and those that matter, after all, already know exactly what the Egyptian offers.