Ballon d'Or: 10 players who could have won if Messi and Ronaldo did not exist

#3 Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez was arguably the best striker in world football from 2013-2017

The Barcelona number 9 has arguably taken his game to new heights ever since he completed a big-money transfer from Liverpool to Catalonia. Scoring and setting up goals for fun, Suarez even outscored Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann in the La Liga during the 2015/16 season scoring 40 goals in 35 games, and winning the Pichichi award.

Supremely talented and tenacious, Luis Suarez always gives more than a 100% on the pitch. Known for his direct running and skilful dribbles, Luis Suarez tormented defenders all over Europe nutmegging them at will and scoring some spectacular goals as well.

While there is no doubting that Messi was Barcelona's talisman, the Uruguayan superstar not only outscored his more illustrious team-mate, Lionel Messi in LaLiga, he even topped the assist leaderboard.

In any other era, people would have been hailing the genius of Suarez, but his past misdemeanours and Messi's and Ronaldo's brilliance saw Suarez only claim the 4th place in the 2016 Ballon d'Or awards.

Luis Suarez also almost singlehandedly guided Liverpool to the 213/14 League title.