Marseille head coach Roberto De Zerbi believes Mason Greenwood has the potential to win the Ballon d’Or in his profession.
Greenwood has loved a robust begin to the 2025-26 season, main the scorers’ chart in Ligue 1 with 10 objectives, whereas additionally offering three assists as Marseille sit third within the league.
He has additionally scored three objectives in six Champions League video games this season, together with a brace to assist his aspect beat Union Saint-Gilloise 3-2 on Tuesday.
No participant managed to attain greater than the 24-year-old within the French top-flight final season, with Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele additionally scoring 21 instances.
De Zerbi insisted that Greenwood can attain the very prime stage of the sport, however for now, he nonetheless has a lot to enhance on.
“I see him every single day, he has an enormous potential,” De Zerbi stated in a information convention. “I don’t see another gamers in Europe on the identical stage.
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“He has the potential to win the Ballon d’Or. Will probably be as much as him to determine whether or not he desires to do all the pieces he can to combat for it or not.
“On the stage of the qualities that nature has given him, that his dad and mom have given him, I feel he’s worthy of the Ballon d’Or.
“I would love him to be extra constant. I do know he must press with extra depth, he must handle the ball higher when the staff is in bother, not lose the ball simply however preserve it to permit the staff to maneuver up as a result of he has the power to do it.
“I’ve to go away Marseille in a greater state of affairs than after I arrived. Greenwood should be higher than the Greenwood I took initially.”
