The Guardian's 100 best footballers of 2021

[MCFC1993]

They're releasing the results between now and Christmas Eve. Not that it matters but it's something to discuss.

Details & Judges:

How the Guardian ranked the 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Thomas Hitzlsperger, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Roque Junior are three of the 219 judges on the panel for our 10th list

www.theguardian.com

The 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Robert Lewandowski is our winner for the second year running with Mohamed Salah moving into the top three for the first time

www.theguardian.com

10. De Bruyne (down from 4 last year)
14. Dias (not on last years)
25. Foden (not on last years)
29. Sterling (down from 27 last year)
35. Gundogan (not on last years)
45. Bernardo (up from 70 last year)
60. Mahrez (up from 77 last year)
61. Grealish (down from 59 last year)
63. Cancelo (not on last years)
74. Walker (not on last years)
75. Ederson (up from 89 last year)
92. Rodri (not on last years)

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

Well the dippers have # 1 to 11 sewn up.

 

[rickmcfc]

This should be good

 

[blue b4 the moon]

They're releasing the results between now and Christmas Eve. Not that it matters but it's something to discuss.

Details & Judges:

How the Guardian ranked the 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Thomas Hitzlsperger, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Roque Junior are three of the 219 judges on the panel for our 10th list

www.theguardian.com

100-71:

The 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Robert Lewandowski is our winner for the second year running with Mohamed Salah moving into the top three for the first time

www.theguardian.com

74. Walker (not on last years list)
75. Ederson (up from 89 last year)
92. Rodri (not on last years list)

Some of the midfielders/players they've ranked Rodri behind is criminal.

After looking at those positions I'll waste my time in other threads.

 

[threespires]

They're releasing the results between now and Christmas Eve. Not that it matters but it's something to discuss.

Details & Judges:

How the Guardian ranked the 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Thomas Hitzlsperger, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Roque Junior are three of the 219 judges on the panel for our 10th list

www.theguardian.com

100-71:

The 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Robert Lewandowski is our winner for the second year running with Mohamed Salah moving into the top three for the first time

www.theguardian.com

74. Walker (not on last years list)
75. Ederson (up from 89 last year)
92. Rodri (not on last years list)

Some of the midfielders/players they've ranked Rodri behind is criminal.

It really is just a load of very deliberate clickbait bollocks. They make a big thing of their panel of 'experts' to try and legitimise it but even the football writers at the Guardian can't possibly believe some of the nonsense in this list each year. Just designed to create BTL outrage and traffic.

 

[Cityfan]

They're releasing the results between now and Christmas Eve. Not that it matters but it's something to discuss.

Details & Judges:

How the Guardian ranked the 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Thomas Hitzlsperger, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Roque Junior are three of the 219 judges on the panel for our 10th list

www.theguardian.com

100-71:

The 100 best male footballers in the world 2021

Robert Lewandowski is our winner for the second year running with Mohamed Salah moving into the top three for the first time

www.theguardian.com

74. Walker (not on last years list)
75. Ederson (up from 89 last year)
92. Rodri (not on last years list)

Some of the midfielders/players they've ranked Rodri behind is criminal.

In defense of the list and the difficulties of making it no one has a precise definition of what is a better footballer , it is rather subjective. Also the time constraints of when you make the list and who has seen the footballers etc will make it difficult.
They do seem to have recruited a large number of peole who should be at least reasonable observers of the game to make it but inevitably many of them will only have seen relatively small amounts of high exposure coverage of some players rather than have had a regular review of their games.
With respect to Rodri, I don't know when the votes were cast and exactly what period people were looking at but it is relatively recently that his outstanding form has come to many peoples notice.
People on this forum were questioning him towards the end of last season. Pep did not pick him for the CL final and Enrique preferred Busquets in the Euros. I don't really blame outsiders for ranking him lower than I would.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

1. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
2. Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain)
3. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
4. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
5. Jorginho (Chelsea)
6. Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain)
7. Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund)
8. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
9. N'Golo Kante (Chelsea)
10. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
11. Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea)
12. Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain)
13. Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain)
14. Ruben Dias (Manchester City)
15. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)
16. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)
17. Federico Chiesa (Juventus)
18. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
19. Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid)
20. Edouard Mendy (Chelsea)
21. Pedri (Barcelona)
22. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)
23. Sadio Mane (Liverpool)
24. Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus)
25. Phil Foden (Manchester City)
26. Nicolo Barella (Inter Milan)
27. Mason Mount (Chelsea)
28. Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich)
29. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
30. Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan)
31. Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid)
32. Angel Di Maria (Paris Saint-Germain)
33. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid)
34. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
35. Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City)
36. Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)
37. Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
38. Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain)
39. Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur)
40. Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
41. Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich)
42. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich)
43. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
44. Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain)
45. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)
46. Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid)
47. Kai Havertz (Chelsea)
48. Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea)
49. Memphis Depay (Barcelona)
50. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
51. Gerard Moreno (Villarreal)
52. Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
53. Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid)
54. Simon Kjaer (AC Milan)
55. David Alaba (Real Madrid)
56. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (AC Milan)
57. Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina)
58. Thiago Silva (Chelsea)
59. Declan Rice (West Ham United)
60. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City)
61. Jack Grealish (Manchester City)
62. Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli)
63. Joao Cancelo (Manchester City)
64. Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich)
65. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
66. Ciro Immobile (Lazio)
67. Alisson Becker (Liverpool)
68. Casemiro (Real Madrid)
69. Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
70. Reece James (Chelsea)
71. Marcos Llorente (Atletico Madrid)
72. Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)
73. Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma)
74. Kyle Walker (Manchester City)
75. Ederson (Manchester City)
76. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
77. Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City)
78. Luke Shaw (Manchester United)
79. Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen)
80. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool)
81. Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan)
82. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona)
83. Duvan Zapata (Atalanta)
84. Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid)
85. Burak Yilmaz (Lille)
86. Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad)
87. Luis Diaz (Porto)
88. Diogo Jota (Liverpool)
89. Dusan Tadic (Ajax)
90. Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig)
91. Julian Alvarez (River Plate)
92. Rodri (Manchester City)
93. Sebastien Haller (Ajax)
94. Keylor Navas (Paris Saint-Germain)
95. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
96. Joakim Maehle (Atalanta)
97. Fabinho (Liverpool)
98. Gavi (Barcelona)
99. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City)
100. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur)

 

[W11Nchenko]

2020

brazil’s first choice goalkeeper, and premier league golden glove winner (despite not playing with any of the list’s top 16 defenders or top 9 holding midfielders): 89th

brazil’s second choice goalkeeper, playing behind 3 of the top 6 defenders and 2 of the top 3 holding midfielders: 26th

fuck me, any list that suggests blunderland was 63 places higher than ederson the year liverpool won the covid cup, might as well be printed on bog roll

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Will be a joint number 1 this year.

Tront and PR37.

 

[Octavian]

Won’t be clicking on that rag shite