Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo told ‘move aside’ as Man City stars Jack Grealish and Phil Foden tipped to challenge for future Ballon d’Or awards

Tim Sherwood has challenged Manchester Metropolis duo Phil Foden and Jack Grealish to compete for future Ballon d’Or awards.

It comes after Karim Benzema scooped the celebrated award in Paris on Monday evening, becoming a member of teammate Luka Modric as the one gamers outdoors of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to have picked up the gong since 2008.

Not solely that, it was the primary time report seven-time winner Messi didn’t characteristic within the 30-man shortlist for the primary time since 2005, whereas Ronaldo got here house twentieth within the ultimate voting.

With Messi and Ronaldo’s Ballon d’Or stranglehold waning, Sherwood believes two of English soccer’s brightest skills needs to be staking their declare to be within the combine with the opposite new children of the block – Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.

“We’re going to see some new winners – clearly there’s going to be no extra Messi and no extra Ronaldo,” Sherwood advised talkSPORT Breakfast.

“We’ve loved while it lasted nevertheless it’s time for the brand new breed. Mbappe presumably, actually Haaland – I see him profitable it due to his output which is unbelievable.

“Benzema shouldn’t be gonna win it once more and now the door’s open for maybe Phil Foden or Jack Grealish or Harry Kane – he’s getting in direction of the tip [of his career] now.

“Somebody must step up. Transfer apart Ronaldo and Messi and open it up for another person to win.”

Benzema helped Actual Madrid to the LaLiga title and was essential of their run to Champions League glory, culminating of their 1-0 win within the ultimate towards Liverpool.

The previous Tottenham boss was in full settlement that the Frenchman deserved to select up this yr’s award and pointed to Benzema’s objectives towards Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis en path to the ultimate, because the moments that swung the voting in his favour

Sherwood added: “He was excellent. The run of video games he had within the Champions League and the objectives he was scoring. They had been up towards it in these video games, they appeared like they had been going out of the competitors. I feel he deserves it.”