#3 Cristiano Ronaldo
Fifth time Ballon d'Or winner. Fourth-time Champions League winner. Second-time La Liga winner. Second top-scorer in European World Cup Qualification (14 goals). Top Scorer in the Champions League. He defined the term Big-Game player.
Problem is though, while he was absolutely stunning in the first half of 2017, he oscillated between more record-breaking (scoring in every game of the Champions League Group Stages - the first person to do so) and absolutely, utterly wasteful (in waste swathes of La Liga) in the second half.
Cristiano Ronaldo was absolutely magical in 2017... but his inconsistency in the second half has cost him in the rankings at the end.
Edited by Anirudh Menon