Real Madrid yesterday attacked Uefa president Michel Platini for not backing the campaign for Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d’Or.

The Spanish club are angry with the Frenchman for stating earlier this week that a member of Germany’s World Cup-winning squad should recieve one of the most prestigious awards in football.

Ronaldo won the title last season and is a hot favourite to win it again this year after helping Madrid to win their 10th European title.

But Platini would rather one of Mario Goetze, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm, Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer or Bastian Schweinsteiger be dubbed the best player in the world which led to the Spanish club reminding Uefa’s president that it is an individual rather than a collective prize.

In the statement, Madrid said that Platini should be impartial as the “head of European football’s principal body” — though by endorsing their player his impartiality goes out the window. 

Instead, the club decided to act as the former Manchester United winger’s personal PR machine by pointing out that Ronaldo “claimed the Champions League, the Golden Shoe and the record for the highest goalscorer in an edition of the Champions League.”