Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has expressed his bewilderment after his team missed out on the Ballon d'Or club of the year award.
Despite a stellar season in which they won the Champions League and the LaLiga title, Real ended up missing out on the accolade to Manchester City.
Liverpool finished in second, despite Real Madrid having beaten Jurgen Klopp's side in the Champions League final.
Real also overcame City in the semi-finals of the competition, with Kroos left disappointed at the outcome of the award.
Kroos tweeted: '3rd best team in 2021/22 - happy Real Madrid?'.
City were crowned Premier League champions last season, while they were knocked out of the Champions League and the FA Cup at the semi-finals stage and suffered a fourth round exit in the Carabao Cup.
Liverpool, meanwhile, finished second in the league and runners-up in the Champions League but they experienced glory in the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup.
As well as winning the Champions League and LaLiga, Real also won the Supercopa de Espana. They went out in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey.
Despite not achieving collective glory at the ceremony, there were plenty of other causes for celebration for Real at the ceremony, most notably Karim Benzema winning the Ballon d'Or for the first time.
Thibaut Courtois won the Yashin award for best goalkeeper and also finished in the top ten overall along with Vinicius Junior and Luka Modric.
Cmon_CTID
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well deserved
GoatLingard
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Everyone knows that réal Madrid was lucky to win the champion league. Maybe the history make them slighly advantage over the rests. Thus, you should not complain of being the third place…..honestly, your team should be 5th place behind Chelsea and PSG.
RockyBhai
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defeating PSG, Chelsea,Man City and Liverpool in a row is not a luck; it's a quality and pure master class....Hala Madrid 🔥❤️🔥
Toxin-Dc
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Gavi remember the slap that slap benzema give to him in El Classico match during the ceremony
StarBless1
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For those of you saying man city deserve the Award ahead of Madrid because Madrid was lucky to win the UCL. It’s just so obvious you guys are haters or doesn’t really know anything about football and that’s dumb…in a very tough encounter Madrid still eliminated the likes of psg, Chelsea, the so called Man City and Even Liverpool in the final to claim the UCL Trophy 🏆…And for that alone they deserve the Club of the year Award. Instead some dumb Fans are saying they’re lucky…They’re not lucky. it’s just you that’s hating on them for their achievements just because Madrid is not your favorite club and probably defeated your favorite club to lift the UCL. And they only awarded Man City this Award because they have the highest nominations for both men and women in the Ballon D’or top 30 list followed by Liverpool and that’s only while Real Madrid was in the third position. So you should understand this better and Respect the clubs and stop saying trash here…Cheers 🤝❤️
Eagleyeh
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I am surprised to read that some claimed that Real Madrid was lucky to have won so many matches at the late hours last season. You know, I also listened to the Zizzou of football. He said he has analysed that pattern and concluded that it was not luck but planned; a strategy. In an event that you feel sad about this, and that a team that defeated Chelsea, Mancity, PSG and Liverpool was lucky all the time, then I cannot help you. Good luck.
Toxin-Dc
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This is so serious
Cyrilll
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So as at now if you still don’t believe that Madrid won the champions League out of luck but not that they played better then you should stop watching football
AlexanderMadrid
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well deserved
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deserved what? oh please this is simply robbery in daylight. even city fans are so surprised what will make city to win it? they were knocked out by westham at the early stages of the carabao cup, they were kick out of the fa cup in the quarter final, out in ucl semis and the EPL sightly slip away from them. if Liverpool was given the club of the year it will be more preferable because reaching and winning the finals of two domestic cup and also runner up of both UCL and EPL. For goodness sake real Madrid deserved it 100% have already won the la liga before match 30, reaching and winning the Spanish cup final, reached the Copa del Ray semis, won the UCL in hard labour knocked out overated favour PSG, knocked out currently holder chelsea, kick out favourite man City, in the final knocked out number one ranking team at that year Liverpool then won the UEFA super cup. it is definitely gabbage
LosMendo
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Everyone knows that réal Madrid was lucky to win the champion league. Maybe the history make them slighly advantage over the rests. Thus, you should not complain of being the third place…..honestly, your team should be 5th place behind Chelsea and PSG.
why is that ? madrid didn't spend a single penny last year yet they won the UCL and la liga ? what makes teams backed by state better when they cannot even win the UCL with billions spent ? care to explain your point
Zebbdeklp
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Calm down kid….the truth sometimes is hard to accept but you can not change it😂
biggest spender? look at the club with highest spending in last decade. real are not even in the list. even if you take 2 decade real are only 5th behind Barcelona, Juventus, man City, and Chelsea. by the way, one time can be considered lucky. but they defeated 4 top team fucking don't try and deteriorate there struggle, and dedication.
joceklmsy
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well deserved
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Everyone knows man city doesn't deserves this...undeserving title ....can't believe this type of fake things are still happening in football
Cool_WarLord
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They have not faced strong opponents yet….wait and see dude
Real madrid literally had the toughest openents...PSG, CHELSEA, MANC, LIVERPOOL . Beating all of them isn't luck...Its the reality...Deal with it
Benadortuz
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im a true blue chelsea fan..... but no way were Real Madrid lucky..... to win UCL.... they continue to believe and fight to win, even when most teams in their situation would have accepted defeat..... They definately deserve to win..... what more should they do.... win the world cup...??? This french award is all crap.... imagine Gavi winning over Bellingham and Musiala....
yutcklpstu
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Everyone knows that réal Madrid was lucky to win the champion league. Maybe the history make them slighly advantage over the rests. Thus, you should not complain of being the third place…..honestly, your team should be 5th place behind Chelsea and PSG.
lucky to beat Chelsea, city and Liverpool? lucky to win it 14 times?
Mia16
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well deserved
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Stfu 🤡
AndreSmart
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For those of you saying man city deserve the Award ahead of Madrid because Madrid was lucky to win the UCL. It’s just so obvious you guys are haters or doesn’t really know anything about football and that’s dumb…in a very tough encounter Madrid still eliminated the likes of psg, Chelsea, the so called Man City and Even Liverpool in the final to claim the UCL Trophy 🏆…And for that alone they deserve the Club of the year Award. Instead some dumb Fans are saying they’re lucky…They’re not lucky. it’s just you that’s hating on them for their achievements just because Madrid is not your favorite club and probably defeated your favorite club to lift the UCL. And they only awarded Man City this Award because they have the highest nominations for both men and women in the Ballon D’or top 30 list followed by Liverpool and that’s only while Real Madrid was in the third position. So you should understand this better and Respect the clubs and stop saying trash here…Cheers 🤝❤️
I won't lie to U at first i thought Real Madrid winning UCL last time was only pure luck but I recently rewatched their Three-peat of UCL & saw it ain't luck, they've mastered the art of winning UCL games even if "they are Losing or not Playing very well" the earlier Everyone knows this the better for all. This is what I need from Barcelona but story for another day, Did Madrid deserve Club of the year??? Why not because they beat everyone to win it but I can understand Manchester City winning it because of more players nominated it's alright but doesn't make much sense to me.
Nivog
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Everyone knows that réal Madrid was lucky to win the champion league. Maybe the history make them slighly advantage over the rests. Thus, you should not complain of being the third place…..honestly, your team should be 5th place behind Chelsea and PSG.
who told you a typical English clown.