there's always going to be biases in the selection process as long as you assign certain persons to take charge of the balon d'or. Factors like the country certain balon d'or nominee comes from, the team he plays for and his overall personality will certainly influence the final decision of who eventually wins the balon d'or. It's the apex of football recognition and in the built up to that, the media has hard it fair share of over hyping certain player just to project them to the public as one that's worthy of being awarded the balon d'or.

The approach for the voting process is fairly good regardless of whatever biases that's associated with it. Even though the fans sees the quality of most players than what some of these selected journalist sees, Fans can't be allowed to vote because they will allow Thier emotions guide thier decisions. Most of the people that are against the selected people that are in charge of the voting and still feels that the award has lost it credibility are only doing so just because the outcome didn't go in line with what they want. Though the award encourages quality competition among players, the sense of entitlement certain teams have regarding the award with the notion that they must always project a player who stands to win it is contributing to making it look like the selection process isn't being transparent.