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Ranking the 10 best AC Milan players of all time

18Feb

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Ranking the 10 best AC Milan players of all time

From Ballon d'Or strikers George Weah, Marco van Basten, and Andriy Shevchenko to the impenetrable defensive trio of Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, and Billy Costacurta, we ranked the top 10 greatest AC Milan players of all time. 10. ST George Weah AC Milan only had George Weah for about five years, but the Serie A giants had the Liberian sensation at his peak after he had already conquered Ligue 1 with a league title and three cups between his tenures at PSG and Monaco. But it was in Milan where Weah would become the first African to win the Ballon d'Or, following that season up with three straight appearances in the FIFA World XI. Weah had the seemingly impossible task of filling the shoes of Marco van Basten, widely regarded as the best striker in world football history, and he f...

Ranking the 10 best Brazilian footballers in the world right now in 2025

17Feb

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Ranking the 10 best Brazilian footballers in the world right now in 2025

Who is the best Brazilian footballer in the world right now at this very second in 2025? Using only advanced statistics at FBref.com and objectively analyzing data from the 2024/25 season, we ranked the top 10 Brazilian players in the world today. 10. Fiorentina RB Dodo Dodo got some hype on Shakhtar Donetsk and was their actual best player in the early 2020s - not Mykhaylo Mudryk - but it took him a second season to really find his footing at Fiorentian. Now, Dodo is arguably the best player on a Viola side that is a sneaky Serie A title contender, and while a top-four fight is more realistic, what Dodo and Fiorentian are doing in 2024/25 is undoubtedly impressive. While Dodo may not be the first name on everyone's lips when discussing the best Brazilian footballers in the worl...

Ranking the 10 best attacking midfielders in the Premier League for 2025

16Feb

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Ranking the 10 best attacking midfielders in the Premier League for 2025

Who are the best attacking midfielders in the Premier League right now in 2025? Combining defensive output, goal-scoring chance creation, one-on-one ability, work rate, experience, current value, and versatility in the modern game with analytics provided by FBRef.com, we ranked the top 10. 10. Bernardo Silva, Manchester City Although Bernardo Silva is in the decline phase of his career, the versatile Manchester City attacking midfielder is still one of the best in the Premier League in his position by virtue of his ability to continue to get into scraps and create chances. Silva is now 30 but still as hard-working as they come. The Portuguese international is in the 90th percentile or greater in assists and progressive carries while being in the 87th percentile among all midfielders i...

Ranking the 10 best wingers in Serie A in 2025

14Feb

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Ranking the 10 best wingers in Serie A in 2025

Who is the best winger in Serie A right now? Let's use expected goals, shot-creating actions, progressive carries, passes into the penalty area, and successful take-ons to build a list of the best wide players in the Italian top flight here in 2025. All statistics are from FBRef.com and any player who can feasibly offer attacking contributions on the wing is eligible to be ranked. The top 10 eligible players in each statistically category were assigned points ranging from 10 to 1 based on their ranking, with first place receiving the maximum of 10 points. Then, shot-creating actions were tripled and xG doubled to weigh chance-creation and goal-scoring as the two most important categories, respectively. Tie-breakers were given to the player who appeared in the top 10 of more unique...

Ranking the 10 best Premier League center backs for 2025

6Jan

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Ranking the 10 best Premier League center backs for 2025

There may not be a single league in the world with as much central defensive talent as the English top flight, so here are the best Premier League center backs right now in 2025. 10. Murillo, Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest are in the Champions League race this season against all odds by virtue of a defense that is so lockdown that it just might be the best in European football right now. The center back partnership of newcomer Nikola Milenkovic, formerly of Fiorentina after a heavy courting for his services in the world of Calcio, and Murillo, with the latter already established as the starter from last season. Murillo has been one of the best players in the entire Premier League in the 2024/25 season and at 22 years of age, we'll be hearing his name for a long time as one of ...

The 5 most underrated Wolverhampton players of the last decade

11Oct

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The 5 most underrated Wolverhampton players of the last decade

Here are the five most underrated Wolverhampton Wanderers players from 2010 to 2019. LW Matthew Jarvis Matthew Jarvis' peak for Wolves was around the tail end of the 2000s and the start of the 2010s, and he was a darn good player for Wolverhampton. Jarvis scored 4 goals with 6 assists in the 2010/11 season and then 8 goals with 4 assists a season later. He was the one saving grace for Wolves, and it says something that he played that well in 2011/12. only for Wolves to finish dead last in the Premiership anyway. And without him, they would have definitely been relegated a season earlier than that anyway. Jarvis was unplayable at times when he was in his peak, though that peak sadly only lasted for a few seasons. His trickery and skill ranked among the best wingers in England, with ...

Ranking the 25 best Premier League wingers of the last 5 years

29Sep

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Ranking the 25 best Premier League wingers of the last 5 years

Ranking the best wingers in the Premier League is a task so onerous that it may seem foolhardy, because even restricting the time span to the last five years doesn't make the task even easier. How do you rank, for example, a new breakout star like Anthony Gordon against a fallen superstar like Sadio Mane? Where does a gifted footballer like Riyad Mahrez stand against a former goal-scoring machine like Raheem Sterling? I tried my best to be fair and account for the unique merits each player brought to the table and avoid any club-based bias. I also decided to discard players who mostly offered value at non-winger positions, specifically Bernardo Silva, mostly to make my own job easier. (Don't worry, I'll have plenty of nice things to say about Silva in other pieces.) Finally, I did...

Who has the better career, Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Robert Lewandowski?

13Aug

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Who has the better career, Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Robert Lewandowski?

Strikers have always been the glamor players in world football, and over the last 20 years, few goal-scorers made as many headlines as Robert Lewandowski and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Lewandowski is still going strong as one of the best strikers in Spanish football, likely finishing up his career with Barcelona after forcing a move away from Bayern Munich, where he became one of the greatest strikers of all time. Meanwhile, Zlatan, who also played for Barcelona briefly, is retired and enjoying the next step in his career as an executive for AC Milan, one of his former clubs. In fact, Zlatan played for all three powerhouses of Italian football, but perhaps his period was a largely overlooked tenure in Paris as the first face of the Qatari project before the arrivals of Neymar and Kylian Mba...

The uniquely elite career of Pepe, a Real Madrid and Porto icon

10Aug

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The uniquely elite career of Pepe, a Real Madrid and Porto icon

Football fans had already bid farewell to two of the best midfielders of the 2010s and early 2020s, Thiago Alcantara and Toni Kroos, as the former Bayern Munich and LaLiga icons decided to retire. Thiago's exit came after injuries robbed him of a true farewell in the Premier League with Liverpool, where he showed flashes of the player who so expertly guided Die Roten to the 2019/20 treble. Meanwhile, Kroos left world football on top, having shined as Germany's best player at Euro 2024 after conquering LaLiga and the Champions League one last time for Real Madrid as a six-time career UCL champion between the Royal Whites of Spain and the Reds of Germany. Now, world football will say goodbye to a legend on equal footing of Thiago and Kroos, with a pedigree of longevity that will ena...

Ranking the 10 best Bundesliga left backs for the 2024/25 season

6Aug

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Ranking the 10 best Bundesliga left backs for the 2024/25 season

The left back position is one of the most talent scarce in world football by virtue of the fact that fullbacks are difficult to find, and especially left-footed fullbacks who can fulfill all the duties a modern-day LB is expected to perform. Although the Bundesliga don't have a great left back for every team in the league, they have quite a few talents at the top who are among the best left backs in all of European football. So here is a look at the 10 best Bundesliga left backs heading into the new 2024/25 season, with breakout stars joining familiar faces like Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies and RB Leipzig's David Raum. 10. Phillipp Mwene, Mainz After two seasons of starting in the Europa League for PSV, Phillipp Mwene returned to man the left back position for Mainz. The 30-year...