June 8, 2017 — Squad Report
Ranking people is tough. What is the intrinsic and objective value of a human being on an impossibly subjective scale? Lucky for us, soccer is finite and discernibly truthful. I mean, we all know the best player in the world is Emile Heskey, right? Okay fine, it’s incredibly intricate and inherently deceptive. How does James Rodriguez go from world beater to being left out of Madrid’s top 18 in the Champions League Final? This makes knowing where players stand even more important. This system is completely biased, based on current form and any number of factors that go into creating certain favors, but it is also definitive and final. No questions asked; no explanations offered, in honor of the brute strength and finesse that goes into building an eighteen man roster. All the mystique of Jose Mourinho, without the questionable results.
- Ander Herrera
- David De Gea
- Eric Bailly
- Sergio Romero
- Paul Pogba
- Marcus Rashford
- Henrikh Mhkitaryan
- Anthony Martial
- Marouane Fellaini
- Antonio Valencia
- Daley Blind
- Juan Mata
- Chris Smalling
- Jesse Lingard
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Michael Carrick
- Wayne Rooney
- Marcos Rojos
