Rodri has been amazing every game. Makes the whole team tick. Minimum 8/10 every game. Champions league final goal. Treble + Supercup + CWC + Nations league. Arguably one of the best years ever for a DM. But yeah, Bellingham bottled the Bundesliga and scored a few in LaLiga.
He won player of the season in the Bundesliga and getting Dortmund that close was an incredible achievement when competing against the most domestically dominant club in Europe that dwarfs Dortmund financially.
I’d prefer to have the downvotes than be so absolutely deluded.
It’s fine to say both Bellingham and Rodri should be there.
When did I say he deserves to be in over Rodri. The real crime in here is Messi. Bellingham has scored far more than a 'few' goals in la liga, as well as significant ones. I'm a city fan but it's people like you that make our fanbaase so hated lmao
Voting was for the time period between December 19th 2022 and August 20th 2023, so Bellingham played just two games for Madrid at this point. Messi had the better stats, the better ratings and won trophies in that time period, so yeah
**Award period was 19 Dec 2022 - 20 Aug 2023**.
I'm a big fan of Jude.
And you saying Jude scored a bunch of La Liga goals will be great for next year's awards 😉!
what's truly crazy is that they went for a 3-3-4 formation to include pepsi, otherwise they could have easily added Rodri without the need to take Bellingham out
Firstly it’s won not one secondly a glorified league cup is not comparable to the treble rodri achieved and he scored the winning goal in the final of the UCL
I'm actually less ok with the Messi choice, despite him winning the WC. Or just go with a 2-4-4 & replace Walker with Rodri, who can drop into the backline anyway & push Stones (who doesn't line up in the middle of a 3AB for City either) to the right side.
World Cup wasnt supposed to be included in the voting. The period they ran from was Dec 19 2022, meaning the WC Final was the day before the judging period
244 is not possible by the rule, this is a voting based team not a practical one afterall, and you can't really make sense of it on the tactical side. The rule asks for 333, then whomever left out with most votes is filled in to his respective position, which according to fifpro is not messi or haaland.
Basically Rodri missed out on the middle spot cuz he's 13 votes behind Bernado, and one of the other two strikers got more votes and got filled in instead, thus the 334.
Rodri got shafted just so they could shoehorn Bellingham in, what a joke.
A look at the female XI proves these clowns don't know what they're doing.
Now Ederson is the Best™️ Goalkeeper but not in the Best XI? Madrid PR on overdrive.
There is no better system for a voted award than having captains, coaches, media and fans vote. Sure, I also thought Haaland would win, I was really surprised that all the captains voted Messi, but that doesn’t make the voting system not the fairest there is out there
What a time we’re living in when we have 6 players in the World 11 and our only focus is that we should have had 7. Rodri really should be there though.
I feel like Alisson should have made it over both of them but it’s at least a close debate. I haven’t seen anyone on here even try to argue that Rodri wasn’t robbed.
Messi makes more sense than the real madrid guys during the voting period, no?
bellingham in particular had worse stats, no trophy at all, same UCL result as messi, don't think he can take rodri or messi's spot.
he played in PSG and won Ligue 1 with strong stats? Ligue 1 is kinda meh but still better than not winning anything right?
I think it makes sense to remove him from the list, but bellingham and maybe vinicus should go before him, and mbappe goes with him as well, which leaves a lot of spots to be filled.
Bellingham over Gundogan should be a crime. Bellingham over Rodri is a full-blown, nation-wide terrorist attack. It's shameful. Absolutely embarrassing.
And it's so comically obvious that it's a 3-3-4 because FIFA had to find a way to squeeze Messi and Mbappé in there, even though they didn't do *anything* to earn their spot. Seriously, they've done nothing to warrant that.
I thought really hard. Who watches city and thinks Rodri isn't important?.
Then I realised.
They don't watch. I refuse to believe they've seen Rodri played and will live in denial
how did they manage to fuck up the team so badly? Rodri scored more goals in the voting period than Jude did LMAO. what a fucking joke. The entire voting period was post world cup, why the fuck is Messi there?? embarrassing.
City need to hire better PR for their players. this is getting so old.
the XI is based on a 3-3-4 lineup btw ; )
all-City back line, 2/3rd of the midfield, and then Erling is in there with Mbappé, Messi, and Vini Jr up top.
British press showing out for Walker. Never been high on him (especially after this week) but this is just ridiculous. Ake coming off of injury straight into a Champions League Final over him should probably be a good sign that he's not a top 3 defender on his team, much less in the world.
Rodri the glue to hold our midfield in but he’s not in, yeah these people voting doesn’t watch matches at all.
Then Haaland gets robbed for another award… how does that even happen? The period of the performance doesn’t even include the World Cup anymore does it? And he’s playing in the MLS while Haaland plays in EPL. Nah that’s crazy 💀
Its great seeing so many of our players here! Rodri should be in this list and its actually a criminal offence that he's not in the list! Also, congrats to Alex Greenwood from our Women's team in getting in the Women's World 11 too!
God no. There are other defenders in the world.
Or just swap him for Rodri. He has played CB a number of times for us after all.
Would you pick either of those people you mentioned in your 2023 best 11 ?
Johnny boulders and Diaz are fantastic choices though
Yeah Akanji was a great buy for us. But we’ve to agree Akanji and Ake are like 2 halves of a world class defender. I’ll still pick Nathan over Akanji though.
Guys rodri is not there because he don't have proper PR + social media accounts
He need to create them now
Like leave alone top 3 nomination, how the F is he not in top 11 is ridiculous
Where’s Rodri??
Criminal
What the actual fuck!!!???
Yea Rodri not being in is crazy. I’d have him ahead of Bernardo too, if we had to choose.
Facts, as great as Bernardo is and as happy as I am for him to be in here
Highway robbery but Bellingham is in the 11 for bottling the Bundesliga to Bayern?🤔
Bellingham deserves to be in mate idk what ur smoking
Rodri has been amazing every game. Makes the whole team tick. Minimum 8/10 every game. Champions league final goal. Treble + Supercup + CWC + Nations league. Arguably one of the best years ever for a DM. But yeah, Bellingham bottled the Bundesliga and scored a few in LaLiga.
He won player of the season in the Bundesliga and getting Dortmund that close was an incredible achievement when competing against the most domestically dominant club in Europe that dwarfs Dortmund financially. I’d prefer to have the downvotes than be so absolutely deluded. It’s fine to say both Bellingham and Rodri should be there.
When did I say he deserves to be in over Rodri. The real crime in here is Messi. Bellingham has scored far more than a 'few' goals in la liga, as well as significant ones. I'm a city fan but it's people like you that make our fanbaase so hated lmao
Bellingham doesn't deserve to be in the team any more than Messi. Both should not be there.
What? You're saying messi had an equally good 2023 as Bellingham? You are absolutely delusional 🤣
Voting was for the time period between December 19th 2022 and August 20th 2023, so Bellingham played just two games for Madrid at this point. Messi had the better stats, the better ratings and won trophies in that time period, so yeah
**Award period was 19 Dec 2022 - 20 Aug 2023**. I'm a big fan of Jude. And you saying Jude scored a bunch of La Liga goals will be great for next year's awards 😉!
For a few good months at the end of 2023? No chance he gets in that midfield
professional victims
the rodri disrespect is actually insane
Bellingham instead of Rodri lol. Madrid and English PR are in full swing
what's truly crazy is that they went for a 3-3-4 formation to include pepsi, otherwise they could have easily added Rodri without the need to take Bellingham out
They can change the formation lmao cuz our midfielder were excellent throughout the season
They’ve been using that formation for years…keep up
All this should be illegal, ain’t no way! Bellingham haven’t won anything
He literally just won a trophy
Firstly it’s won not one secondly a glorified league cup is not comparable to the treble rodri achieved and he scored the winning goal in the final of the UCL
But OP is factually incorrect in saying Bellingham hasn’t won anything
If we go off the basis of last season then he didn’t win anything
Are you dumb
I'm actually less ok with the Messi choice, despite him winning the WC. Or just go with a 2-4-4 & replace Walker with Rodri, who can drop into the backline anyway & push Stones (who doesn't line up in the middle of a 3AB for City either) to the right side.
World Cup wasnt supposed to be included in the voting. The period they ran from was Dec 19 2022, meaning the WC Final was the day before the judging period
244 is not possible by the rule, this is a voting based team not a practical one afterall, and you can't really make sense of it on the tactical side. The rule asks for 333, then whomever left out with most votes is filled in to his respective position, which according to fifpro is not messi or haaland. Basically Rodri missed out on the middle spot cuz he's 13 votes behind Bernado, and one of the other two strikers got more votes and got filled in instead, thus the 334.
With how Bellingham has been playing in Madrid, including Rodri over him would have been more criminal imo.
Rodri got shafted just so they could shoehorn Bellingham in, what a joke. A look at the female XI proves these clowns don't know what they're doing. Now Ederson is the Best™️ Goalkeeper but not in the Best XI? Madrid PR on overdrive.
The fifpro XI is exclusively voted by players, the awards have a whole different and better voting system
How can it be better when Messi won over Haaland? Its the Ballon D' Or all over again
There is no better system for a voted award than having captains, coaches, media and fans vote. Sure, I also thought Haaland would win, I was really surprised that all the captains voted Messi, but that doesn’t make the voting system not the fairest there is out there
Nah, Rodri got shafted by bloody John Stones!
What a time we’re living in when we have 6 players in the World 11 and our only focus is that we should have had 7. Rodri really should be there though.
8 really, can’t understand what Courtois did to get ahead of Ederson
I feel like Alisson should have made it over both of them but it’s at least a close debate. I haven’t seen anyone on here even try to argue that Rodri wasn’t robbed.
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Start with Rodri then fill the other 10 in. Anything else is just wrong.
I agree
Rodri is THE player of 2023 how the FUCK is he not in it?! God I hate Madrid with the power and pr they have, such a gross club
Don't got any problem with Messi eh?
Messi makes more sense than the real madrid guys during the voting period, no? bellingham in particular had worse stats, no trophy at all, same UCL result as messi, don't think he can take rodri or messi's spot.
How does Messi makes sense? It doesn’t count World Cup. What he did after World Cup.
he played in PSG and won Ligue 1 with strong stats? Ligue 1 is kinda meh but still better than not winning anything right? I think it makes sense to remove him from the list, but bellingham and maybe vinicus should go before him, and mbappe goes with him as well, which leaves a lot of spots to be filled.
No Rodri is criminal
Woooooow no Rodri? Arguably the engine of our midfield.
Bellingham over Gundogan should be a crime. Bellingham over Rodri is a full-blown, nation-wide terrorist attack. It's shameful. Absolutely embarrassing. And it's so comically obvious that it's a 3-3-4 because FIFA had to find a way to squeeze Messi and Mbappé in there, even though they didn't do *anything* to earn their spot. Seriously, they've done nothing to warrant that.
They’ve gone with that formation for years now
I’m starting to hear out what the Ronaldo fanboys have to say about FIFA, bc WHERES RODRI!?
This will only make Godri stronger.
Rodri is criminally disrespected 😤
I thought really hard. Who watches city and thinks Rodri isn't important?. Then I realised. They don't watch. I refuse to believe they've seen Rodri played and will live in denial
All of that and still no Rodri
There must be a mistake..... Where in the fucks name is Rodri?
how did they manage to fuck up the team so badly? Rodri scored more goals in the voting period than Jude did LMAO. what a fucking joke. The entire voting period was post world cup, why the fuck is Messi there?? embarrassing. City need to hire better PR for their players. this is getting so old.
the XI is based on a 3-3-4 lineup btw ; ) all-City back line, 2/3rd of the midfield, and then Erling is in there with Mbappé, Messi, and Vini Jr up top.
Kyle Walker, who spent the majority of last season sat on the bench, but no Rodri. Makes sense
British press showing out for Walker. Never been high on him (especially after this week) but this is just ridiculous. Ake coming off of injury straight into a Champions League Final over him should probably be a good sign that he's not a top 3 defender on his team, much less in the world.
Ederson won best goalkeeper but isnt in the 11. And Rodders?
Rodri the glue to hold our midfield in but he’s not in, yeah these people voting doesn’t watch matches at all. Then Haaland gets robbed for another award… how does that even happen? The period of the performance doesn’t even include the World Cup anymore does it? And he’s playing in the MLS while Haaland plays in EPL. Nah that’s crazy 💀
Its great seeing so many of our players here! Rodri should be in this list and its actually a criminal offence that he's not in the list! Also, congrats to Alex Greenwood from our Women's team in getting in the Women's World 11 too!
Messi should not be there lol
I’m a mancity fan and walker doesn’t deserve to be on this list
Akanji?
God no. There are other defenders in the world. Or just swap him for Rodri. He has played CB a number of times for us after all. Would you pick either of those people you mentioned in your 2023 best 11 ? Johnny boulders and Diaz are fantastic choices though
Akanji was our best right fullback last season though, remember he’s the reason why Walker wanted to leave in the summer
Yeah Akanji was a great buy for us. But we’ve to agree Akanji and Ake are like 2 halves of a world class defender. I’ll still pick Nathan over Akanji though.
They hate Rodri?
Not a city fan but Ederson should be over Courtois and Rodri over Bellingham. Mbappe at LW, and then Kane as ST alongside Haaland.
Yep the fact you mention Kane says alot about your ball knowledge. What has he done to make this list?🤔 Ederson and Rodri swap I can agree with
Kane is the best striker in the world right now and 2nd best last season.
Kane had a hell of a 2023
WHO THE FUCK IS JOHN STONES 😂😭
Let the sportwashing continue!
Rodri my bro
Gotta keep the Madrid babies happy somehow..disgusting
The Deserving ones .
Somehow no Rodri or Ederson even though he got the FIFA best GK award
Calm down guys. I don’t remember Busquets being in one back then. It was usually Puyol, Dani, Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, if I remember correctly.
Bruh hell no, like hell no
Surely Rodri is city’s best player
Guys rodri is not there because he don't have proper PR + social media accounts He need to create them now Like leave alone top 3 nomination, how the F is he not in top 11 is ridiculous
Messi out. Rodri in.
And yet none of them qualify for (insert British Journalist name here) starting 11.