Soccer Nerd Central's Top Players of 2013

[Star of Spurs]

Right, let's have an event that actually lasts eh lads?

You'll no doubt notice that it's nearly the end of the year and at this time people make lists to compare and collate or because they can't get it up or something, and football is no exception. They're literally the most passive thing in the world, but it's interesting to see who rates who and it gives the chance for us to bully people, so let's see how it goes. The way it works is simple - compose a list of the best 15 players in the world, in order (or more if we feel necessary). Whoever you rank first gets 15 points, whoever you rank second 14, and it goes on. We'll add them up and then we'll have the definite list which will go down in history as certainly a list we made in 2013.

Here's mine for example: 

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel Messi
3. Franck Ribery
4. Gareth Bale
5. Luis Suarez
6. Phillip Lahm
7. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
8. Thiago Silva
9. Robert Lewandowski
10. Sergio Aguero
11. Wayne Rooney
12. Robin van Persie
13. Andres Iniesta
14. Marco Reus
15. Neymar

To give you some ideas, here's FourFourTwo's and The Guardians' lists, but unlike the latter we're not going to be melts and put an uncapped Argentinian playing in the Chinese league 22 places above Eden Hazard, are we? 

[Childish]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Gareth Bale
3. Lionel Messi
4. Luis Suarez
5. Franck Ribery
6. Zlatan
7. Robin Van Persie
8. Thiago Silva
9. Phillip Lahm
10. Laurent Koscielny
11. Robert Lewendowski
12. Arjen Robben
13. Falcao
14. Sergio Aguero
15. Bastien Schw...(the lad that plays midfield for Munich).

[sween]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel Messi
3. Phillip Lahm
4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
5. Luis Suarez
6. Gareth Bale
7. Franck Ribery
8. Robert Lewandowski
9.  Wayne Rooney
10. Marco Reus
11. Neymar
12. Isco
13. Edinson Cavani
14. Falcao
15. Diego Costa

Tried to pick the best players who've been in teams that have won the biggest trophies or star men who've carried their teams all year

[Star of Spurs]

Dec 20, 2013 20:16:55 GMT @mikecfc said:

There should be a stipulation of having to pick two goalkeepers and three defenders. Otherwise its just fifteen attacking mids and strikers.

I did think about the defensive aspect of it but I presume we're all smart guys, we acknowledge it's can't just be strikers & that the likes of Lahm, Koscielny (who completely slipped my mind tbf), Neuer, Thiago Silva all offer as much to the side than the likes of Ronaldo or Messi

...okay, mine was mostly strikers but they're the popcorn players, what do you expect

[cl7]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel messi
3. Franck Ribery
4. Gareth Bale
5. Phillip Lahm
6. Manuel Neuer
7. Luis Suarez
8. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
9. Robin Van Persie
10. Bastien schweinsteiger
11.robert lewandowski
12.wayne Rooney
13.sergio aguero
14.marco reus
15. ilkay gundogan

[constant]

I'm going to try to play this mostly straight without being astoundingly redundant.  A tricky task indeed.

1. Ronaldo
2. Messi
3. Philipp Lahm (shockingly underrated for a player who appears in most top tens)
4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
5. Thiago Silva
6. Franck Ribery
7. Gareth Bale
8. Luis Suarez
9. Yaya Toure
10. Manuel Neuer
11. Sergio Aguero
12. Robert Lewandowski
13. Vincent Kompany 
14. Henrikh Mkhitaryan
15. Fred

I don't actually think that Kompany, Mkhitaryan and Fred are 3 of the top 15 footballers in the world but I did want them to get points to get onto the final list.

[Printer67]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel Messi
3. Gareth Bale
4. Frank Ribery
5. Phillip Lahm
6. Luis Suarez
7. Bastien Schweinsteiger
8. Luka Modric
9. Robert Lewandowski
10. Sergio Aguero
11. Thiago Silva
12. Marco Reus
13. Diego Costa
14. David Alaba
15. Manuel Neuer

[Gianni Infantino]

Are we just talking about how we rate them on this year alone?

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Franck Ribery
3. Luis Suarez
4. Gareth Bale
5. Lionel Messi
6. Philipp Lahm
7. Sergio Aguero
8. Manuel Neuer
9. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
10. Andres Iniesta
11. Diego Costa
12. Bastian Schweinsteiger
13. Wayne Rooney
14. Radamel Falcao
15. Diego Lopez

[Close]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel Messi
3. Gareth Bale
4. Thiago Silva
5. Franck Ribery
6. Phillip Lahm
7. Diego Costa
8. Radamel Falcao
9. Zlatan Ibrahimovich
10. Manuel Neuer
11. Sergio Aguero
12. Luis Suarez
13. Andres Iniesta
14. Sergio Busquets
15. Wayne Rooney

[JM]

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. Lionel Messi
3. Franck Ribery
4. Gareth Bale
5. Andres Iniesta
6. Xavi
7. Phillip Lahm
8. Bastian Schweinsteiger
9. Sergio Aguero
10. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
11. Neymar
12. Mario Gotze
13. Robert Lewandowski
14. Manuel Neuer
15. Thiago Silva

[Gianni Infantino]

Not really. Only ones I disagree with are Gundogan, Reus, Goetze, Mkhitaryan and Koscielny. Even they are all better than Cech and Terry.

[Maskya Yoshida]

1. Christiano Ronaldo
2. Arjen Robben
3. Phillip Lahm
4. Leo Messi
5. Gareth Bale
6. Luis Suarez
7. Franck Ribery
8. Sergio Aguero
9. Zlatlan Ibrahimovic
10. Thiago Silva
11. Manuel Neuer
12. Falcao
13. Bastian Schweinsteiger
14. Per Mertersaker
15. Robert Lewandowski

[Gianni Infantino]

They are mate, that isn't even slight bias. Look around, no one else is throwing their own players in undeservedly.

[Maskya Yoshida]

Cech is level with Neuer
Cech is level with Neuer
Cech is level with Neuer
Cech is level with Neuer

[The Quito Diet]

1. Ronaldo
2. Messi
3. Ribery
4. Bale
5. Fabregas
6. Suarez
7. Aguero
8. Rooney
9. Neymar
10. Courtois
11. Pogba
12. Mertesacker
13. Ibrahimovic
14. Falcao
15. Lewandowski

come at me