Mikel Arteta has transformed the team, thanks in part to the contributions of key players he has brought in over the years. He has also developed existing talents such as Bukayo Saka and made a significant impact on players like Leandro Trossard and Kai Havertz.
ESPN has compiled a list of the top 50 players in the Premier League, and they included one Arsenal star in the top five: Martin Ødegaard. The Arsenal captain has been one of the league’s standout performers this season. Bukayo Saka is ranked sixth, and William Saliba is tenth, making Arsenal three representatives in the top ten.
They explained their criteria saying the model rates players “through a combination of their individual stats and the team’s performance with said player on and off the field. It adjusts for team quality and league quality and then estimates a player’s impact on the average team’s performance. This kind of model both rewards players for on-ball individual production and the unseen stuff that leads to winning.”
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We could have had more stars in the top five, but even having three players in the top ten shows we truly are one of the biggest clubs in the competition now.
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A fit Odegaard will drive Arsenal to the next level this coming season. I love watching that guy with the ball at his feet.
My deep concern is what would happen to our aspirations if he should be out for any length of time. Who would step into those big shoes of his?
As an American, I recommend ignoring anything ESPN has to say. They’re “rankings” are done by 20 yr old interns mimicking what they read online. Please please may they never get the US television rights, they will somehow bring misery to the sport.
I get what you arr trying to portry about ESPN but instead of just dismissing them I think it would have been better to address the substance of these rankings.
Every news / Sports outlet does their own Rankings each season too and the results ate never 100% similar. So you will have different people dismissing those individual News outlets because they did not rank certain players in a particular subjective order / sequence they preferred.
Let’s address their particular conclusions instead.
Odegaard has been the type of No10 some of us had been advocating for many seasons before. A all rounder.