It’s that time of the year once again. The 2024 Ballon d’Or is around the corner where gamers who should have to win aren’t chosen and those who have absolutely nothing to provide other than PR are method ahead of everybody else. For Bayern Munich, England striker Harry Kane is amongst the candidates (as recorded by Twitter account @iMiaSanMia). However, there’s no Jamal Musiala on this list.

Max Eberl was priced estimate as stating that everybody “at FC Bayern is very surprised that Jamal Musiala is missing from this list”. Musiala contributed in Bayern’s and Germany’s runs in the Champions League last season and the Euros respectively.

For context, Martin Odegaard (Arsenal FC), Artem Dovbyk (Dnipro, Girona, and Roma), Hakan Calhanoglu (Inter Milan), and Vitinha (PSG) got in ahead of Musiala. Then once again, not unexpected from an association who chose to reject Robert Lewandowski the opportunity to win it and rather provided him an award to calm the Bayern faithful—it was consequently ditched too.

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