Mendes calls Messi Ballon d'Or win injustice

Cristiano Ronaldo's agent, Jorge Mendes, believes it was "an injustice" that the Ballon d'Or award was presented to Lionel Messi.
The Barcelona captain saw off competition from Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Ronaldo at the ceremony in Paris earlier this month.
Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Italian club Juventus from Real Madrid in 2018 after the Serie A Champions bought him in a reported £105M deal. The five-time Ballon d’Or winning footballer missed out on the coveted trophies for the past two years, with Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric winning the trophy in 2018 and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi getting the prize this year. Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes has expressed dissatisfaction at Messi’s win and called it injustice.
Speaking to Spanish outlet Marca, he said: “Cristiano is the best player in world football. Before him Portugal won nothing, and with him they’ve won the European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. He transformed world football. When you speak of Portugal, you speak of a small country, but he’s changed that.”
“Next year I think he will reach 110 goals for Portugal and I believe he will win the Ballon d’Or. For me it was an injustice that Messi won. Ronaldo also won the UEFA Nations League. But life is like that. I think that if he was still at Real Madrid, he would’ve won,” he added.
“He’s a champion, and he knows what to do in order to win it in 2020,” he added.