RedCafe's 100 best footballers of 2019 | Tue 7th Jan: Full list posted

[Damien]

Thanks to the following 45 members for submitting lists of 30 players which have been counted for this:

Macern, Lynty, Paul_Scholes18, RoyH1, Forevergiggs1, Njord, Rifer, bucky, Amadaeus, einstein, Bepi, André Dominguez, Lay, harms, Who's Kissing Cameras?, Synco, MackRobinson, el3mel, anant, abdo99, Shaw Mee Tah Mané, diarm, DWelbz19, Megadrive Man, joker00, Sokz, Skorenzy, giorno, KirkDuyt, Gio, Nialinho, BootsyCollins, MalcolmTucker, luisnani86, Marat, TheMagicFoolBus, Nicoseth, Iceicebaby, RooSSaili, OutlawGER, snowkarl, Manoucha09, Swarlos, Danish Voice, BBRBB

Those members, while mostly United fans, also cover Juventus, Benfica, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Feyenoord, Rangers, Chelsea, Bayern, PSG, Pochettino and many other followings.

Overall, there weren't as many submissions as I'd have hoped, which has led to some questionable names lower down the list, but the top 10-20 shouldn't have too many complaints once we get there.

Release dates:

51-100: now
31-50: Sunday 5th January
11-30: Monday 6th January
01-10: Tuesday 7th January

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#: Name - Points (# of lists nominated)

001: Lionel Messi - 1305 (44)
002: Virgil van Dijk - 1252 (45)
003: Sadio Mane - 1230 (45)
004: Robert Lewandowski - 1066 (44)
005: Kevin De Bruyne - 1052 (43)
006: Cristiano Ronaldo - 996 (43)
007: Mo Salah - 994 (44)
008: Kylian Mbappe - 963 (42)
009: Raheem Sterling - 844 (40)
010: Sergio Aguero - 605 (37)
011: Son Heung-Min - 564 (35)
012: Frenkie de Jong - 562 (36)
013: Trent Alexander-Arnold - 531 (38)
014: Karim Benzema - 513 (34)
015: Alisson - 510 (34)
016: Harry Kane - 499 (33)
017: Bernardo Silva - 490 (30)
018: Eden Hazard - 476 (30)
019: Neymar - 399 (28)
020: Andrew Robertson - 371 (26)
021: Jadon Sancho - 363 (35)
022: Matthijs de Ligt - 360 (32)
023: Marc-Andre ter Stegen - 316 (25)
024: Roberto Firmino - 264 (24)
025: Hakim Ziyech - 232 (21)
026: N'Golo Kante - 225 (21)
027: Antoine Griezmann - 223 (24)
028: Dusan Tadic - 215 (18)
029: Luis Suarez - 200 (19)
030: Jamie Vardy - 196 (18)
031: Fabinho - 186 (17)
032: Aymeric Laporte - 167 (17)
033: Serge Gnabry - 141 (17)
034: Paul Pogba - 130 (11)
035: Paulo Dybala - 129 (14)
036: Timo Werner - 124 (14)
037: Jan Oblak - 119 (12)
038: Joshua Kimmich - 115 (12)
039: David Silva - 115 (9)
040: Marcus Rashford - 113 (17)
041: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - 98 (11)
042: Kalidou Koulibaly - 95 (14)
043: Fernandinho - 83 (7)
044: Marco Verratti - 77 (9)
045: Lautaro Martinez - 73 (12)
046: Toni Kroos - 69 (9)
047: Erling Haaland - 56 (7)
048: Ederson - 56 (5)
049: Georginio Wijnaldum - 55 (6)
050: Memphis Depay - 51 (5)
051: Bruno Fernandes - 50 (7)
052: Sergio Ramos - 50 (7)
053: Riyad Mahrez - 45 (5)
054: Casemiro - 45 (3)
055: Giorgio Chiellini - 38 (3)
056: Ciro Immobile - 36 (3)
057: Gerard Pique - 33 (4)
058: Angel Di Maria - 30 (4)
059: James Maddison - 27 (2)
060: Marquinhos - 24 (4)
061: Martin Odegaard - 24 (4)
062: Sergej Milinkovic-Savic - 24 (2)
063: Rafinha - 23 (1)
064: Marco Reus - 22 (3)
065: Danny Ings - 21 (1)
066: Joao Felix - 19 (4)
067: Saul Niguez - 19 (2)
068: Bruno Henrique - 19 (1)
069: Luis Alberto - 18 (2)
070: Federico Valverde - 18 (2)
071: Donny van de Beek - 18 (1)
072: Mason Mount - 18 (1)
073: Jordan Henderson - 17 (3)
074: Lucas Moura - 17 (2)
075: Sergio Busquets - 16 (2)
076: Miralem Pjanic - 16 (2)
077: Dani Parejo - 16 (3)
078: Takumi Minamino - 16 (1)
079: Scott McTominay - 15 (3)
080: David De Gea - 15 (2)
081: Luka Modric - 15 (2)
082: Jack Grealish - 15 (1)
083: Thiago Silva - 15 (1)
084: Thiago Alcantara - 14 (2)
085: Tammy Abraham - 14 (2)
086: Aaron Wan-Bissaka - 13 (2)
087: Christian Eriksen - 13 (1)
088: Rodrigo - 12 (2)
089: Harry Maguire - 12 (2)
090: Arturo Vidal - 12 (1)
091: Thomas Partey - 11 (1)
092: Wilfred Ndidi - 11 (1)
093: Kasper Schmeichel - 10 (1)
094: Todd Cantwell - 10 (1)
095: Kai Havertz - 9 (1)
096: Adama Traore - 9 (1)
097: Nathan Ake - 9 (1)
098: Raphael Varane - 8 (2)
099: Edinson Cavani - 8 (2)
100: Stefan de Vrij - 8 (1)

 

[Skorenzy]

Those members, while mostly United fans, also cover Juventus, Benfica, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Feyenoord, Rangers, Chelsea, Bayern, PSG, Pochettino and many other followings.

Overall, there weren't as many submissions as I'd have hoped, which has led to some questionable names lower down the list, but the top 10-20 shouldn't have too many complaints once we get there.

Great job Damien!

Regarding the bolded bit: that's to be expected with any ranking though. In the end it comes down to which competitions or clubs or specific matches were watched by the voters and their own criteria applied to them, so even accounting for bias I believe, if nothing else, it at least gives us a pretty good idea of which players have caught the eye the most over this period.

 

[Damien]

Great job Damien!

Regarding the bolded bit: that's to be expected with any ranking though. In the end it comes down to which competitions or clubs or specific matches were watched by the voters and their own criteria applied to them, so even accounting for bias I believe, if nothing else, it at least gives us a pretty good idea of which players have caught the eye the most over this period.

True. There was one person whose list was pretty much exclusively Premier League only. I like the idea the Guardian had where they subtracted the highest score from the total to reduce any outliers, but we didn't have enough lists submitted to do that.

 

[DWelbz19]

Good stuff, Damo! Sample size definitely makes for some dodgy calls, but I’m excited to see what the top 20 or so looks like.

Just FYI (probably too late now) but your graphic in the tweet has Ake’s nationality as English.

 

[Damien]

Good stuff, Damo! Sample size definitely makes for some dodgy calls, but I’m excited to see what the top 20 or so looks like.

Just FYI (probably too late now) but your graphic in the tweet has Ake’s nationality as English.

I knew I'd mess one of the flags up, which is why I showed the graphics to @The Stain and @RedSky last night so they could hopefully spot any problems that I was blind to. Cheers guys.

I can fix it and resubmit. Thanks for letting me know.

 

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[DWelbz19]

Son, 11th?! I know he’s quite the favourite here but...

 

[Snuffkin]

Andy Robertson 20 th best player wow

 

[KirkDuyt]

Poor Stefan de Vrij, destined to be criminally underrated. 78 places below De Ligt.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

So no Lukaku at all. I guess there is a strong bias against him. Same with Evans and Smalling who have been better than Maguire for last year. Also how does any United supporters vote for De Gea after the year he had?

 

[spontaneus1]

Just goes to show, this list is worse than most of the horrible ones from journalists.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Vardy, 30th.

For goals scored in 2019, thought he'd have been higher.

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

McTominay better than Modric!? Jesus.

 

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Link with full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WnUbW6xl8aCLSwLaXF73uv_Dn8sj6ivMYzjfA73HyKg/edit?usp=sharing

 

[2mufc0]

Lewandoski?

 

[LARulz]

Lewandoski?

He's 4th. Probably fair. Could maybe interchange him with Mane in top 3

 

[2mufc0]

He's 4th. Probably fair. Could maybe interchange him with Mane in top 3

He hasn't been better than any of the other top 9 players on that list. Werner has been better than him and he's somehwere in the 30s.

 

[Damien]

He hasn't been better than any of the other top 9 players on that list. Werner has been better than him and he's somehwere in the 30s.

Lewandowski has scored 30 goals in 25 games this season, 40 in 47 last season.

Werner's scored 23 in 25 this season, 19 in 37 last season.

Nominations cover both the start of this season and the last few months of last season and Lewandowski's scoring record has been impressive for both.

 

[2mufc0]

Lewandowski has scored 30 goals in 25 games this season, 40 in 47 last season.

Werner's scored 23 in 25 this season, 19 in 37 last season.

Nominations cover both the start of this season and the last few months of last season and Lewandowski's scoring record has been impressive for both.

Yeah fair enough guess I'm more recency bias plus I think Lewa is a flat track bully.

 

[Maluco]

That’s a solid top 10 to be fair. You can make changes and have debates, but it is pretty solid! Very well organised and interesting take lads, well done!

 

[Lay]

He hasn't been better than any of the other top 9 players on that list. Werner has been better than him and he's somehwere in the 30s.

What?

 

[einstein]

That Is a solid list. The only thing surprising for me is Jadon Sancho on 21. I think there were a lot players in that top 40 that should have been above him.