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While Lamine Yamal is undoubtedly one of the most exciting teenagers in football history, his 2025/2026 Ballon d'Or aspirations fall flat when evaluated against strict individual criteria and the staggering outputs of modern elite forwards.
The narrative around Yamal is highly fueled by age and aesthetic brilliance, but the cold hard statistics prove his raw output is simply not at a Ballon d'Or-winning level yet.
An analysis of the data reveals three major vulnerabilities in his case.
1. The Output Gap: Demolished by Elite Competitors
The primary criterion for the Ballon d'Or is individual performance, specifically data that changes games. While Yamal had a brilliant, mature season, tallying 24 goals and 20 assists (44 G/A) across 57 matches for club and country, his raw numbers are completely dwarfed by his direct rivals for the award.
Yamal recently argued that the Ballon d'Or should go to the "best player, not the one who scores 80 goals." Critics and media analysts hit back, calling this a "PR stunt" to mask a simple truth: his direct product falls drastically short of true elite standard.
In modern football, a forward cannot win the ultimate individual prize when rivals outscore him by 30 to 45 goals.
2. Lack of In-House Dominance (The Raphinha Problem)
To be named the best player in the world, you must undisputedly be the best player on your own team. Yamal wasn't even the most productive attacker at FC Barcelona.
Raphinha registered an astonishing 34 goals and 22 assists (56 G/A), driving Barcelona to a domestic treble.
Despite outproducing Yamal by 12 goal involvements, Raphinha only finished 5th in the previous Ballon d'Or voting because the media narrative heavily favored the teenager.
Even in the early stages of the 2026/27 season, Raphinha continues to outperform him, logging 12 La Liga goal involvements to Yamal's 9.
Awarding the Ballon d'Or to Yamal rewards aesthetic hype over superior, tangible team-carrying output from teammates like Raphinha.
3. A Passenger in the Biggest International Matches
Yamal’s claim to fame has heavily relied on his international success with Spain. However, during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, where true Ballon d'Or winners are forged, his cutting-edge numbers dried up drastically when the pressure mounted.
Across 8 matches at the 2026 World Cup, Yamal managed just 1 goal and 0 assists.
In the massive semi-final against France and the 120-minute final against Argentina, his match ratings plummeted to 6.12 and 6.44 respectively, failing to register a single goal contribution.
By comparison, Kylian Mbappé completely dominated the same tournament, netting 10 goals and taking home the Golden Boot.
Yamal was a functional gear in Spain's machine, but he did not individually carry his country in the defining moments.
The Kopa Trophy rightfully belongs to Yamal as the world's best U21 player. But voting him as the absolute Ballon d'Or winner would mean ignoring a 25+ goal deficit to his peers, ignoring the superior season of his own teammate Raphinha, and rewarding a player who went missing on the stat sheet during the World Cup knockouts.
🏆🤩 Lamine Yamal: “For Ferran's goal in the World Cup final… I drew two defenders with me, and Pedro Perro was able to deliver the cross on his own”.
“Drawing 2 or 3 opponents is not enough for me. I know I'm helping the team massively, but people don't realize that”.
“Only those who really understand football are the ones who appreciate these things”, told Movistar.
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The statement is incomplete and missing context. Lamine Yamal was asked this by the journalist: “Drawing two or three opponents, is that a way of playing well, or is it not enough for you?” And was asked this: “Do you think people value these things, or only professionals?”
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There is, it's called as release clause.
Morally, I agree that a player should not be kept against his will. But when a player voluntarily enters into a contract with a club, that player should be redy to accept that the club can choose whether not not to let him go before his contract runs out.
Clubs need to be protected as well.
I think FIFA should have a rule that protects players from things like what Atletico is doing to Alvarez at the moment.
No player should be kept against his will!! There should be a form or something players should fill that would allow them leave a club once it becomes a toxic environment for them.
This is unfair on so many levels.
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Players can legally leave a club at any time under Spanish law (RD 1006/1985) & FIFA RSTP Art. 17. However, terminating a contract without legal cause requires paying compensation, as contracts are mutually binding agreements protecting both parties.
RSTP (Art. 14, 17) digitalhub.fifa.com/m/696d877ea35c…
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One of Europe's best ever players as well.
3 la liga titles
3 UCL titles
A treble with Barca
A treble with Inter
3rd FIFA Best 2005
FIFPro XI 05, 06
UEFA TOTY 05, 06
Pichichi 06
Inter Hall of Fame 2021
368 goals and 121 assists in 754 club games.
Don't limit him to Africa.
🇨🇲⚡️ 22 years ago today: Samuel Eto'o scored a brace against Real Madrid for Mallorca! One of Africa's BEST ever players. 👑
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If he did as you suggested in your first paragraph, we'd have an original (coloured) seal on the acknowledgement copy.
Good afternoon.
The first point you raised may be remote, but it is not impossible. He could have as well submitted the letter in December, but gone back to the Party Secretariat after he subsequently got the seal, retrieved the letter he served them, and affixed the seal to both the original and the endorsed copy of the letter. It doesn’t change the fact that the letter was indeed submitted the date stated thereon.
Only the political party the letter was submitted to, can debunk the presumption already presented by the endorsement as to date of receipt shown on the letter, by going on the record to state that the letter (whether with or without the seal affixed) didn’t get to them till 2026, as against 2025 inscribed on the face of the letter. I don’t believe we are factually equipped to make that conclusion for them based on the expiry date on the NBA seal alone.
Also bear in mind that the seal only states an expiry date, it did not state the production date, which is the more critical factor here. Even if we want to assume that the production date of NBA seals is common knowledge among lawyers, I doubt that we can rely on that conjecture alone to make far-reaching conclusions.
As to your second point, I wouldn’t know whether i can get a 2027 seal in 2025 as I have not had cause to make such an application to the NBA, but I will keep an open mind. Afterall, almost anything is possible.
Back to my post that you quoted, note that if anybody was to apply for a copy of that respondent’s brief and possibly see an NBA seal that is subsequent to the date said brief was filed, it will be analogous to the instant situation that has raised such a storm, but it does not automatically mean that the counsel involved in that Appeal did something wrong, committed fraud or backdated his brief.
Cheers.
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In this case, it's a smoking gun.
What we have been shown is an acknowledgement copy of the letter.
It carries 5th December 2025 as the date of receipt.
It's practically impossible to make an acknowledgement copy on the 4th of December 2025, get an endorsement ...
I was in the court of Appeal (special panel) last month and witnessed an appeal being taken before mine was called. An objection was raised therein by Appellant’s counsel, alleging that the Respondent’s brief was “incompetent” because no counsel’s NBA seal was affixed. There and then, Awotoye J.C.A. asked Respondent’s counsel if he has a seal with him and if yes, he should come and affix the seal to the brief.
Now I don’t know since when that brief in question was filed, neither do I know the year of the seal affixed. But it is a possibility that the brief has long since been filed before the Appeal was taken, and the lawyer affixed his current seal in court that day, which he couldn’t have had when the brief was filed then. Yet, this doesn’t make the brief incompetent, neither does it mean the lawyer has committed fraud or professional misconduct.
While it is right to call out irregularities, not everything is a smoking gun.
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The keep saying these things about victims of other drivers' recklessness because the reckless driver is seldom ever held accountable in Nigeria.
This is outright victim blaming and it needs to stop.
Last week, a man died because he was “right.”
He was driving straight. His lane was clear. His speed was normal. He did nothing wrong.
Then suddenly, a bus jumped the median without warning.
The bus driver was wrong. Everyone agreed.
But the man in the car was the one they buried.
This is the first rule of defensive driving most Nigerian drivers don’t understand:
Never assume the other driver will do the right thing.
On Nigerian roads, assumptions can kill you.
That driver in front of you without brake lights?
He can stop suddenly.
That okada rider squeezing between cars?
He can fall.
That truck with shaky containers?
It can drop.
That driver indicating left?
He may still turn right.
Defensive driving is not about proving you are right.
It is about staying alive.
Many drivers approach the road with pride.
“If he tries nonsense, I will show him.”
But defensive drivers approach the road with awareness.
“If he tries nonsense, I will be ready.”
The graveyard is full of drivers who had the right of way.
Pride doesn’t stop accidents.
Preparation does.
The Federal Road Safety Corps can not sit beside every driver.
So you must protect yourself.
Slow down when you see danger early.
Increase your distance.
Watch behaviour, not signals.
Expect mistakes.
Because on Nigerian roads, the best driver is not the fastest.
It is the one who arrives home.
Drive safely
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If Pantami had good intentions, which I believe he did, may Allah reward him abundantly.
I agree that it probably didn't go well, and that perhaps that wasn't the best place or time.
But the man tried.
In think we're not being fair when we say it's overzealousness.
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It's weird how what you quoted him as saying is not exactly what he said in the video you shared.
VIDEO: “People are asking why are we not killing terrorists even if they have killed others. Well, even in the Bible, the prodigal son was given a chance, so we should give terrorists a chance to repent”. - Chief of Army Defence Staff, General Oluyede.
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This man was low-key Muammar Gaddafi without the welfare state.
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