The Guardian's "Top 100 Players in the World"

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Re: The Guardian's "Top 100 Players in the World"

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Unless I've missed it, there doesn't appear to be a specific criteria for selecting players for the list, so it's always going to be a mishmash of opinions; some based on talent, some based on performances in 2012, others on reputation or potential, and some on their performances over several seasons.

100 players seems a lot, but when you break it down per position (e.g. top 20 strikers, centre midfielder, wingers/playmakers, central defenders, fullbacks/goalkeepers) then there's all of a sudden not so many places up for grabs once you've ticked off the usual suspects (Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, Casillas, blah blah blah).

Anyway, it's always going to be subjective. They should have asked me.
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a 'list' on the 'best' footballers.

come on, that's stuff for 12 year olds :lol:
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g88ner wrote:Unless I've missed it, there doesn't appear to be a specific criteria for selecting players for the list, so it's always going to be a mishmash of opinions; some based on talent, some based on performances in 2012, others on reputation or potential, and some on their performances over several seasons.

100 players seems a lot, but when you break it down per position (e.g. top 20 strikers, centre midfielder, wingers/playmakers, central defenders, fullbacks/goalkeepers) then there's all of a sudden not so many places up for grabs once you've ticked off the usual suspects (Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, Casillas, blah blah blah).

Anyway, it's always going to be subjective. They should have asked me.
we know you'd vote for denilson number 1 :barscarf:
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It's got to be a load of bollcks anyway because Bendtner isn't in there!! 8)
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What about Stepenovos?
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dembele? really?!
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Re: The Guardian's "Top 100 Players in the World"

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donaldo wrote:
1989 wrote:I'm sorry but Wilshere, Podolski and Sagna should easily WALK into that list.

It's done on the year 2012 thats why they are not in it.Wilshire and Sagna were injured while Podolski was relegated at Koln and has been average with us
That doesn't explain why Vidic was in it! Didn't he play about 2 games last season because of injury?

That's beside the point anyway - Sagna is not good enough for that list.
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