How? We're talking about THIS years European Footballer of the Year award? What's Ronaldo done THIS season?
Have the candidates for the Ballon d’Or been announced yet? If not, it’s a little premature to be putting any names forward, no matter how outstanding a season they are perceived to have had.
As you such a stickler for context, well here we go, so far this year.
CR7 played 40, scored 42 , Ratio 1.050 G/G (all competitions)
CR7 European Cup played 11, scored 15 Ratio 1.363 G/G
Salah played 47, scored 43, Ratio 0.914 G/G (all competitions)
Salah European Cup played 13, scored 11 Ratio 0.846 G/G
Oh and what has Salah done this season?
Kevin De Bruyne won a Premier League medal, so we know that winning things is no guarantee of an award.