I’d slap Mane in his face, if he tells me he’s better than Messi: Ex-Chelsea striker 

Former Newcastle and Chelsea striker Demba Ba thinks Sadio Mane deserved Ballon d’Or more than Lionel Messi, as he had an incredible season with Liverpool.  Mane indeed had incredible campaign with the Merseyside club, as he won the Champions League title and UEFA Supercup title. Senegalese international also scored 22 goals to win the Premier League Golden Boot.  Ba agrees that Lionel Messi is one of the best players in history, but in 2019 Mane has been better in terms of team stats and trophies.  “These days we speak so much about statistics - I believe that he had the individual and collective stats to have won the Ballon d’Or.” Ba told The Independent.  “I always said if you swap Mane’s stats in 2019 with Messi’s, Messi still would have won it, even with fewer goals. “The fact that Mane won the Champions League, the Super Cup, he played an unbelievable season and finished joint top goal-scorer in the Premier League, it’s crazy! Not only that, he was decisive in all of the games. I believe he could’ve won it.” “I’ve had this talk with a lot of players. They say ‘yeah, but Messi is a better player’. Of course, everyone knows that! “Even if Sadio comes and tells me that he’s better than Messi, I’d slap him in his face and tell him ‘shut up boy, sit down!’ But in 2019, in my perspective, he had a better season.”

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Source - The Independent

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