The Guardian's Top 100

http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2013/dec/100-greatest-footballers-2013

Much better list than the one that had Pedro at 30th

still pretty bad, Lucas Moura at 92ndis a joke, he is a pretty bad football player. and isco is below him not even the same dimension of footballers.

It's shit but that's not really surprising eh?

Hazard at 100 with Eto'o at 83

Paulinho at 59
Ramos at 45

Suarez behind Xavi, Bale and Neymar

Pedram wrote:These kind of things are always subjective.

Part of yeah. Stuff like Martinez 99 is just stupid though. There's nothing subjective about it.

Pedram wrote:These kind of things are always subjective.

Yup^

vanDEEZ wrote:

Pedram wrote:These kind of things are always subjective.

Yup^

I think so long as there are no huge disagreements over the first 20 or 30 spots then it's a reasonably good list, further out the differences are minimal.

Diego Costa should be a lot higher, a place in the top 10 would not be outrageous. Iniesta should be way lower, hasn't played very well since the first half of the 2012/13 season.

Horrible list. Mesut Oezil rated higher than better German players just because he plays in a league that gets more exposure.

What a biased list.

 

Its very hard to make such list, but I like that Messi is #1 and I agree.

Anyway, here's my top 30 (only top 5 inorder):

1- Messi
2- Ribery
3- Cristiano Ronaldo
4- Ibrahimovic
5- Luis Suarez

6-30 (not in order)
Neymar
Lahm
Robben
Lewandowski
Aguero
Schweinstieger
Busquets
Reus
Muller
Yaya Toure
Iniesta
Ozil
Diego Costa
Neuer
Bale
Thiago Silva
Rooney
Vidal
Valdes
Alaba
Gundogan
Cavani
Mata
Gotze
RVP

So how exactly did they go about ranking players for the top 100? Stephen McMillan explains:

We asked each judge one simple question: who have been the 40 best players in the world in 2013? They ranked their answers in order, from 1-40. We awarded 40 points for a No1 choice, 39pts for No2, and so on down to one point for their 40th choice.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/24/world-best-footballers-top-100-list-2013-lionel-messi

Were all the judges English?

Its one of the better lists I think and its current