Fourfourtwo Ranked! Ten best players in each position
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This is by far the worst period since I started watching football. Vinícius Jr. would be just a great player 10 year ago; Di Maria was better and I don't remember him being considered a top 10 player in the world. There are very few "nice to watch" players too(Griezmann, Kvaratskhelia, Odegaard, maybe De Bruyne and Kane...can't remember another one).
Di Maria was without a doubt top 10, not the best obviously but he was easily top 10 maybe top 5.
When? Top 5 is insane; he was never that highly regarded.
I've updated the OP with the lists as spoilers
There were times during psg and RM. Who are you suggesting were better other than the obvious 2?
What’s even more absurd is I watch pundits regularly ranking this guy as the best ever goalkeeper in the PL years. You just have the laugh at it really.
It also made me realize how many good attacking midfielders there are.
Then you missed out. Doku is the 4th best left winger
For instance, it surprises me to see Joao Cancelo there in spite of his very gross defensive lapses vs PSG and Real Madrid in the most important games of the season. @carvajal has had as good attacking outcome as Cancelo (or even better as he was clutch) and is very solid defensive wise. But he did not even make the list.
Alaba was not in particularly great shape just before his injury and his last season was not the best. I find his presence there strange.
Griezmann is paying the no Premierleague penalty.
Modric over Kroos? Pedri over Kroos? Based on this season? I mean, seriously?
And seeing the ranking of Stones, White, TAA, Walker, Rice, Bellingham, Foden, Kane and co (*), it will be a total failure if England don't win the Euros final by a 3 goal margin at least.
(*) Disclaimer: I do rate these players.
Incredibly biased towards English players
Well, you didn't give me a specific time space, so I won't either. These players were better most of the time for me(I'll only mention midfielders and forwards):
First half of 2010s:
Xavi
Iniesta
Robben
Ribery
Muller
Bale
Ibrahimovic
Suárez
Ozil(similar level)
Kroos(similar level)
Aguero(similar level)
James(similar level)
Tevez(similar level)
Gotze(similar level)
Second half:
Neymar
Suárez
Bale
Modric
Kroos
Griezmann
Hazard
De Bruyne
Silva
Aguero
Lewandowski
Salah
Kane(similar level)
Isco(similar level)
Dybala(similar level)
He’s great, sure. But he’s no where near the best in the world. He makes more howlers than any other top keeper and the only reason he’s considered the best in the world is because of his price tag and the fact he plays for the media’s darlings.
Rudiger has been the best centre back in the world since 2021.
Agreed
First thing I noticed too.
The RB and CB list I saw is crazy. Trent as one of the top 10 RB's on the world. Stones as the 5th ranked CB. Ake at 7.
There must be a real dearth of talent in world football at the moment or the list creator is an idiot.
There must be a real dearth of talent in world football at the moment or the list creator is an idiot.
Pretty sure Courtois is in the list because the magazine ran one of these a couple of years ago after he'd had a great season in England and omitted him, which Courtois later alluded to after a really good CL final for Real Madrid (something to the effect of "you English media lot never liked me"), which led to retroactive criticism.
I don’t understand why Martinelli is on the LW list but Rashford isn’t. They were both rubbish last season but Rashford was better the year before.
Agreed. If these lists were done by a Spanish, Italian, German, Brazilian magazine they would be different.
They wouldn't look like the best in the world in their positions if they weren't almost playing as wingers.
Not sure if bad because they let an idiot decide or bad to deliberately be controversial.
Either way some of these are too dumb to be worth even debating.
Weird how Arsenal didn't win anything when apparently nearly all of their players are among the best in the world.
Pretty sure Simons is a wide midfielder who plays on the left. Koeman may put him on the right, but he's not a right winger. Also, I'd take Malen over him any day as a winger.
Dumfries surely shouldn't be this high? Think he partly lost his starting place to fecking Darmian this year.
Dumfries surely shouldn't be this high? Think he partly lost his starting place to fecking Darmian this year.
It's a list to generate engagement. They either purposely put players in there that don't belong or their method of ranking them is flawd.
Don't waste time on it.
Don't waste time on it.
I thought the lists were okayish until I arrived at CM. That really seems random as feck.
Left wing and striker lists are super underwhelming but I guess that's just a reflection of the current state of players in these positions.
Left wing and striker lists are super underwhelming but I guess that's just a reflection of the current state of players in these positions.
Bizarre omissions of Dalot, Shaw and Martinez.
Shaw on form is arguably the number 1 LB.
Dalot and Martínez should both get into the top 10 for me.
If ball-playing ability for keepers is heavily considered, hence Ederson being number 2, then Onana should be in the top 10 as well.
This list is mostly made up of players from the current best teams (so City, Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern), though, and players who get in due to their recent achievement and media status. There's 0 player profiling included in this list. If Rüdiger was still at Chelsea, he wouldn't even be top 5 despite playing on the same level as he has been playing at for Madrid. Vicario from Spurs is also better than most of those keepers on the list, but he isn't included for some reason. And that's just one obvious omission from many.
Remember the days when United and Chelsea deservedly had a player or two in the top 10 list for every position. Really sad to see what has become of those institutions.
Looking at the lists for the front four positions makes one super- nostalgic for the 90s/2000s/2010s. Anthony Gordon rated a top 10 LW sums up how bland football has become.
Looking at the lists for the front four positions makes one super- nostalgic for the 90s/2000s/2010s. Anthony Gordon rated a top 10 LW sums up how bland football has become.
Not really, Shaw hasn't played all season, neither has Martinez and Dalot really isn't all that good.
That website is an abomination. Stopped reading at CB to save my eyes. Someone wants to post the list?
Not worth it. Those are lists that want to provoke.
I thought we were talking about for his position.
Not playing makes them injured. Not a reflection on their relative ability.
No, but not playing doesn't make them better than players who have been playing all season.
Agree. And no Carvajal at all on it is plain absurd. But there are some strange things there and some clear biases but I won't go into them to avoid hellfire.
Nothing like a list done by a clueless journo to get people fired up pre-game.
Don't think Shaw should make that list, even when fit. He hasn't been great since the Euro's whenever he was fit. Solid sure, but not world class or exceptional in any regard.
Imagine they once come up with a ranking that nobody disagrees with, and nobody comments on it. Probably the author would be sacked on the next day.
Putting Anthony Gordon as the 10th best left winger in the World is pretty remarkable.
With "relative ability" factor Martial would be on that striker list. With Ben Arfa as best winger and Neymar or Messi as best players overall.
You are good as your last season was. How you can include Shaw and Lisandro on that list when they were injured nearly whole season?
Not really as anyone who watched Martial when he came back could see injuries had ruined him from 5 years ago, whereas say De Bruyne came from injury for months and it was still more or less De Bruyne from before, or Courtois comes back for the Champions League final and looks as good as ever. There's a balance to it, judging past performance with present ability and more factors than just based on one season. Anthony Gordon wouldn't become better than Mbappé if Mbappé was out for 6 months. for example.