Pitch Points: Kane’s Ballon d’Or chances, Balogun’s US role and can De Zerbi fix Spurs?

The world of soccer throws up no shortage of questions. Today, Graham Ruthven endeavors to answer three of them

There was a time when settling on the best male soccer player in the world was easy. Between 2008 and 2023, the answer was almost exclusively Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Luka Modrić and Karim Benzema disrupted the pair’s Ballon d’Or duopoly in 2018 and 2022, respectively, but the ballot during that period generally only had two names on it.