[Official] The final 25 contenders for the Golden Boy Award

You are commenting without the required knowledge. Xavi Simons is a PSG player on loan to Leipzig, which is why u/DyMa_Nyx is referring to him as one of his players.

Levi Colwill 💪

Vitor roque?

Playing a lot of matches don't make you good automatically tho

And?

i keep looking for saka in these then i forget that he’s 22 now

His head looks like a sodding tic tac

Haha why?

Xavi Simmons is on loan from PSG

InshaAllah

snipers dream

They are all South American....

2 of our boys let's gooo

I saw Ousmane and I was like "Dembele???? Wtf isn't he too old?" and then I read the last name....

Jude might win Golden Boy and world player of year too if he carries on in this form.

Evan ferguson gets this hands down

Pack it up boys, Bellingham got it easily

Brazil in shambles... it's sad that Brazil next gen won't step up.. and therefore won't even make top 10 anymore.

No way Bellingham dosent win.

We bought like 50 wonderkids over the last year and yet our only nominee comes from our own academy...

Go on Levi my boy :)

Yeah, Bellingham should win but this list is one Udogie short.

I feel like Bellingham and Musiala are the two standout players that should win. As a Bayern fan I hope it's Musiala but wouldn't be mad if Jude won it

Should go to Musiala but will no doubt go to Bellingham

Do we really need a list? If anyone is voting for someone else besides jude then they don't know football

Jude is going to win just because of the last 8 weeks and the fact he’s playing for Madrid. Media pushing him as Ronaldo Messi successor. But over the last year wirtz and Musiala were just better

Looks like my FM team in 2028-29

bayern monaco?

I mean just being on the pitch doesn't get you the Golden Boy. Gavi is great, I love him, but he doesn't change the game the way Pedri, Jude, or Musiala do. Balde has also played regularly since breaking through with very few bad games. No claims he deserved it.

Yes! Grew up at La Masia, came to PSG at 18

Jude has boosted his points credit significantly in recent months so I guess he's winning it.

Bellingham Balde Musiala in that order

To be honest I have no idea how good most of these players are, but I'm still surprised Rico Lewis isn't on the list.

"bayern monaco" always gets me

Viva la Cobham

I've heard he knows nothing

Why did you let him go?

Least plastic PSG fan

Unless I’m being stupid here, you only have one player on the list

OUSMANE DIOMANDE. LET'S GO GOAT!

When will the winner be announced?

Benfica could have 3 nominees if Kerkez didn’t play with us

Has to be Jude

Only one right answer

Zaire-Emery and who's the other one?

unironically i think Holjund should win because in hindsight, sure, Bellingham´s been clutch for Madrid a lot of the time but for a young player to get two goals in an UCL game in current Manchester United, that is just imo more impressive since well, playing in Real Madrid probs is easier than in Manchester United because on the former you get more balls to score whereas United struggles a LOT (be it injuries or just having a bad game) to create chances so the fact Holjund got 2 in a UCL match of all places imo is better.

Lipsia isn't English either

No, it's how we call Leipzig.

It's weird because we still use Italianized names for most European cities (Londra instead of London, Barcellona instead of Barcelona, Dublino instead of Dublin, Monaco instead of Munich which makes it easy to mix it up with Monaco as in the Principality of Monaco) BUT you'll never see New York translated to "Nuova York" (unless you're speaking with a centenerian) or Los Angeles to "Gli Angeli".

Simons, obviously he deserves it for his time at PSV/Leipzig but still our boy

Yes

He’s taking about Musiala. Seems like everyone thinks we let him go rather than him not wanting to stay.

Zaire-Emery and Simons?

Should be Wirtz, will be Bellingham. Wirtz has been the best player in the league in the last 1 and a half years. Only his injury was a factor. But he came back as good as ever. If you are wondering why Leverkusen is as good as they are, there are 2 reasons. 1. actually good transfers like Boniface, Xhaka and Hofmann 2. Wirtz. That boy is nothing but incredible.

Xabi is so incredibly lucky to have a team like that to manage.

Let’s gooo Milos

Well, I mean Colwill obviously.

But yeah, Musiala simply wanted to come back to his native Germany.

It’s almost insulting to have Bellingham and Musiala bunched with the rest here.

They’re both SO far ahead of the pack. If either of those doesn’t win the whole thing is just a sham

If anyone but Bellingham wins this it’s daylight robbery lol

bayern monaco?

To all of r/soccer, remember Arthur Vermeeren, that kid is going to the very top

He means Jamal musiala

you mean the best leftback in the league/top 5 in the world?

See? We mostly still say "Pechino" for Beijing, and "San Paolo" for Sao Paulo. On the other hand, I don't know, no one translates Salt Lake City to "Città del Lago Salato" (but we do call the lake "Gran Lago Salato").

And since you're Mexican, we still call Ciudad de México "Città del Messico", in Italian.

It's... generally weird, what we translate and what we don't.

Yes, like I said, he wanted to come back to his native country.

This is for European players only right?

Needs more Udogie

I feel like Rayan (Cherki) should have been there. Especially seeing players like Diouf...

Am I missing something? This list only has 20 names, no?

Is it a coincidence that the best players are all near the top or have they accidentally published the list in the final order?

25 finalists, only 20 names.

5 last names are:

• Arda Guler (Real Madrid)
• Bilal El Khannouss (Genk)
• Martin Baturina (Dinamo Zagabria)
• João Neves (Benfica)
• Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)

Ki-Arthur-Mundi

No Julio Enciso?

is he any good?

Downvotes are just upside down upvotes. I appreciate them all the same

Yeah basically his mother is German & father was British, they split around the time he was to sign his pro’s & moved back to Germany with her

Bayern also began tapping up Musiala & Odoi up through Odoi’s brother as he represented them both

Los Angeles is in Spanish anyway

But does the American pronunciation drive you crazy?

Dead chuffed for Ireland, but fucking hell he would've been the perfect Kane successor.

Milos my boy

I believe the sarcasm was not realized.

bet he's unmatched in the air

no no I was genuinely asking 👍🏽👍🏽

Its a bunch of really talented players and then one of the best midfielders in the game

Funnily enough, "Buenos Aires" can easily be translated to "Benevento".

How is Alejandro Gazpacho not in this list?

If I recall correctly, it was an issue of scarce opportunities for joining the first team.

balde at least top 3

gavi would've deserved it but not eligible cus he won already 🐐🤷

Wait, serious question is Milos Kerkez that good?

Nice to see Arnau Martínez get recognition, he’s really, really good.

"Going to the very top" - eh.

"Weirdly long head" - I gotta check that shit out.

Musiala is incredibly talented. Sky is the limit for him. but he's not as consistent yet and lacks what is to me one of the most valuable skills that Wirtz already has. Game intelligence. Wirtz knows what to do in certain (basically every) situations, Musiala still needs to learn that. Gladly, that's a skill you can obtain through experience. Wirtz is already worldclass, Musiala will get there eventually.

Musiala is German.

I've got Alejandro Balde playing for my team in FM (Bekescsaba, in 2031). Absolute legend that guy.

Then the grammatically correct sentence is ‘to go back to his native country’

Hard to see anyone beating Bellingham for it

Seems like he's already at the very top

Matt… Damon

Asked a big salary that Barca weren’t willing to give. Also at that time looked like his development stagnated a bit, he was very highly rated since he was very young but in the final years other players went past him. He wanted a clear project and Barca couldn’t promise anything. Also got Raiola as an agent. Many reasons. I think it was probably wise of him to change the scenery and get a fresh start. Here he was always known for his name and hair, got a million followers at 15 playing youth football etc.

Acutually I have seen his name popping up every now and then on this sub, usually by brighton fans but PL fans in general.

10 goals at only 18 in the PL is huge for a striker.

I will definitely keep an eye on him.

Wth is a Bayern Monaco?

Inb4 all the 'Real Madrid PR' comments when Jude wins the Golden Boy Award

Portugal on pace to have stellar back line for years to come.

In this spirit of sexual equality, 25 women should be added to this list, and it should be renamed the 'golden child' award.

At the award ceremony the winner should be granted special powers by Eddie Murphy.

guy is 6'2, powerful, fast and technical

Instinctual too, his movement in the box is top tier

Colwill should not be on this list

Nothing like Rooney in terms of playing style.

Much more of a classic CF/target man but he looks really intelligent & has great movement. Reminds me more of a young Kane. Will be interesting to see if he can develop his game the way Kane has in dropping deep etc.

Lesssgo Kerkez

Afaik this can be a side effect from having a difficult birth due to the use of a specific tool.

So could be that..

He's basically what I hoped Liam Delap would become. They even look similar.

Munich in Latin is Monacum. Came from that.

We weren't ready to give him first team minutes and he wanted more money.

You're right I forgot he didn't move permanently from PSG. My bad.

Translates to Jon Snow in English.

More goals this season than Hojlund

But he has a contract with PSG doesn't him? Doesn't take away his long time in La Masia lol

Fair enough

I think even most of us barça fans were a bit surprised Gavi won it.

Lol yeah that's a great example for comparison, Balde displaced JORDI ALBA guys he should be getting more attention!!!

How many goals do you need to score to not be over hyped?

Needs to adapt his game to suit men's football, got the impression a lot of his success at junior level had something to do with him being a relatively big lad, which doesn't translate to men's football. Spent half a season with us on loan and seemed more interested with starting fights with grizzly old Championship centre halves than actually getting into the area.