The 200 best players in the world: New order

Time for some new order:




The 200-151 revisited:

200: Theo Walcott - Arsenal - England
199: Lorik Cana - Sunderland - Albania
198: Sergei Semak - Rubin Kazan - Russia
197: Ezequiel Lavezzi - Napoli - Argentina
196: Carlton Cole - West Ham - England
195: Diego Capel - Sevilla - Spain
194: Shaun Wright Phillips - Manchester City - England
193: Cristian Zapata - Udinese - Colombia
192: Kolo Toure - Manchester City -Côte d'Ivoire
191: Tranquillo Barnetta - Bayer Leverkusen - Switzerland
190: Stiliyan Petrov - Aston Villa - Bulgaria
189 Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain
188: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine
187: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia
186: Mauro Zarate - Lazio - Argentina
185: Yossi Benayoun - Liverpool - Israel
184: Alberto Aquilani - Liverpool - Italy
183: Amauri - Juventus - Brazil
182: William Gallas - Arsenal - France
181: Craig Bellamy - Manchester City - Wales
180: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria
179: Bojan Krkic - Barcelona - Spain
178: Martin Demichelis - Bayern Munich - Argentina
177: Daniel Agger - Liverpool - Denmark
176: Yuri Zhirkov - Chelsea - Russia
175: Tim Cahill - Everton - Australia
174: Clarence Seedorf - Milan - Holland
173: Alessandro Nesta -Milan-Italy
172: Luca Cigarini - Napoli - Italy
171: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France
170: Lucio - Inter - Brazil
169: Walter Samuel - Inter - Argentina
168: Darijo Srna - Shakhtar Donetsk - Croatia
167: Bruno Alves - FC Porto - Portugal
166: Diego Lugano - Fenerbahce - Uruguay
165: Simon Kjaer - Palermo - Denmark
164: Paul Scholes - Manchester United - England
163: Felipe Melo - Juventus - Brazil
162: Riccardo Montolivo - Fiorentina - Italy
161: Pavel Pogrebnyak - VBF Stuttgart - Russia
160: Klaas Jan Huntelaar - AC Milan - The Netherlands
159: Ronaldinho - AC Milan - Brazil
158: Lukas Podolski - FC Köln - Germany
157: Dirk Kuyt - Liverpool - The Netherlands
156: Aly Cissokho - Lyon -France
155: Sebastian Giovinco - Juventus - Italy
154: Aaron Ramsey - Arsenal - Wales
153: Arda Turan - Galatasaray - Turkey
152: Pepe - Real Madrid - Portugal
151: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain
150: Pedro - Barcelona - Spain
149: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain
148: Marouane Fellaini - Everton - Belgium

Now I didn't waste too much time on this but I did feel like at least I had to put some kind of improvement of the order out there. As these things go some people were too high and other people way too low. But as new players I felt like had to be on the list kept surfacing the more messed up the lower part of the list became. This at least makes good on that somewhat.

It's obviously still close between a bunch of people and on another day it would look different. The highest ranked people on this "new order" would probably still squeeze ahead of quite a few people still to come and players like Sergio Ramos (as feared) and especially the Barcelona boys Pedro/Busquets (as specialist as it has become clear they are) and Fellaini like I've already mentioned several times, should (now) have been ranked way higher.

When I finally do get to a player I feel Fellaini shouldn't have been ranked ahead of I'll try to remember and mention it!

Anyway on to doing more write ups. Working on them as we speak and there should be another update some time tomorrow.