Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says Virgil van Dijk has to win the Ballon d’Or if the award is meant to be given to the best player of the past year.
The Dutch international, who has won the Champions League and came second in the Premier League, is a contender to win the honour.
"If you give the Ballon d'Or to the best player of his generation, you give it always to Lionel Messi, that's how it is," Klopp told Reuters.
"If you give it to the best player of last season then it was Virgil van Dijk. I don't know exactly how it will work but that's how I see it.
"If it's for the best player, the best player at all, and of all, then it's Lionel, (but if it is for) best player of last season, (then it's) Virgil. We will see."
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The Mirror