In typical brutal fashion, Bundesliga players have had their say on the heroes and flops of the football season - and some of the results are bound to ignite uproar.
A total of 252 players gave their opinions in multiple categories, such as player of the season, biggest disappointment, and best manager in the world for Kicker magazine's infamous yearly vote.
He might have been named the Bundesliga player of the season, but in the vote by his peers, he only finished second place for the top gong - despite his performances earning him a mouth-watering £113m move to Real Madrid.
Ahead of the midfielder, it was Eintracht Frankfurt striker Randal Kolo Muani, a current Manchester United target, who came out on top.
The Frenchman won with 24.2 per cent of the vote, comfortably ahead of Bellingham's 17.5 per cent. It comes after he netted 23 goals in 45 games this season and helped Frankfurt reach the DFB-Pokal final - which they lost 2-0 to RB Leipzig.
Werder Bremen forward Niclas Fullkrug came in third. Former West Ham man Sebastien Haller finished a worthy fourth, after overcoming testicular cancer to excel with Borussia Dortmund and fire them to within a whisker of the title.
At the other end of the scale, former Liverpool star Sadio Mane was mercilessly branded the biggest disappointment of the season by Bundesliga players.
A whopping 41.7 per cent said the Senegalese winger, whose £250,000-per-week contract yielded just seven Bundesliga goals, has been the biggest flop since joining from Anfield for around £35million last summer.
In April, he was fined over a week's wages for punching team-mate Leroy Sane in the face after a 3-0 loss at Manchester City, and the 30-year-old has struggled to settle.
Sane himself didn't fare well in the rankings - he was identified as the fourth worst behind Bayern stalwart Joshua Kimmich and Dortmund marksman Anthony Modeste, who slumped to a paltry two Bundesliga goals after scoring 20 for Koln last term.
Perhaps some jealousy crept in, though - of the nine players pilloried as the biggest flops, seven play for Bayern or Dortmund, who finished first and second.
On the managerial side of things, Julian Nagelsmann was roasted as the 'biggest loser' after being sacked by Bayern Munich in March while he was meant to be enjoying a skiing holiday.
Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel, who replaced him and managed to steer Bayern to their tenth successive league title on the last day, was not shielded by silverware as he was voted the third biggest loser after enduring a mixed record, only winning half of his 12 games and losing a third of them.
Daniel Farke, who was booted out of the Borussia Monchengladbach dugout on the back of a tenth-place finish, came fifth for biggest loser.
Union Berlin's Urs Fischer rightly claimed 'biggest winner' for steering the club to their first-ever Champions League berth, while former Liverpool man Xavi Alonso came second after guiding Bayer Leverkusen to sixth.
Casting their eyes wider, the 252 players picked their leading lights in world football.
Thibaut Courtois has the honour of being the best goalkeeper with 45.6 per cent of the vote, ahead of Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Ederson. Liverpool custodian Alisson did not feature in the top five.
Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, and Kevin de Bruyne were selected as the best 'attackers' (there was no midfield category), with City's Norwegian goal machine hoovering up over half the vote. Lionel Messi's stock has seemingly declined, as he came sixth, downstream of Vinicius Junior and Ballon d'Or winner Karim Benzema.
The rise is meteoric for Haaland, who wasn't even in the top seven last year.
There were few surprises when Pep Guardiola scooped up 'best manager' with nearly 60 per cent of ballots going his way, with Carlo Ancelotti and Jurgen Klopp having to settle on the lower steps of the podium.
But perhaps most intriguingly, over 57 per cent of players thought that the Bundesliga is 'losing touch' with Europe's top leagues - an indication that confidence is at a low ebb among the German league's ranks.
The Bundesliga has slipped to fourth in UEFA's league coefficient rankings, having declined from being placng in 2016/17.