‌Ranieri’s call with Ballon d’Or winner‌The Ballon d’Or was awarded on Monday and with the days of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s domination now over, there’s a much more open field for football’s biggest individual prize. ‌Fresh off their Premier League title triumph and getting set for the Champions League, City were well in that conversation. In fact, manager Claudio Ranieri even spoke to Dembele over the phone to try to convince him to move to the King Power Stadium. I know where I'm going, it's definitive.”‌It remains the case that no Ballon d’Or has ever been on City’s books. ‌This was probably the best clean sheet of the lot given Coventry were way in front as the Championship’s highest scorers coming into the game.