Report: Chelsea Only Have 1 Player in Goal.com’s Top 50 Elite Global Football Players Annual Poll

Report: Chelsea Only Have 1 Player in Goal.com’s Top 50 Elite Global Football Players Annual Poll

So Goal.com recently released their Top 50 Elite Global Football Players Annual Poll and surprisingly given their indisputable squad quality it was a major surprise for the twice Premier League Champions and recent Champions League winners -Chelsea Football Club – to only have 1 player chosen by Goal.com’s global football aficionados in that Top 50 with shockingly no room for the mega-talent that is Eden Hazard.

To decide the players making the top 50, Goal.com’s football analysts studied players from all around the world from Asia to Europe to Africa and beyond. The panel of over 500 Goal.com journalists chose the candidates based on the following criteria:

  • their consistency;
  • performances in key matches;
  • honours won at their club and country;
  • their reputations amongst their peers and other clubs
  • plus what they have accomplished in the game during their careers.

When you consider Chelsea’s plethora of bona fide stars like Diego Costa, Oscar, Willian, Thibaut Courtois, Eden Hazard and Pedro but to name a few it is hard to comprehend how only one player from the Blues was selected to make the top 50 as selected by Goal.com’s journalists.

When you think that Manchester United managed to have 4 players included in the top 50 with the likes of David De Gea being chosen as the only Premier League goalkeeper to make the grade along with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Henrik Mkhitaryan it is really beyond all comprehension that French midfielder N’Golo Kante was the only Chelsea player to make the grade.

You have to ask where were Eden Hazard (he was only the Premier League Player of the Season in 2014–15), Diego Costa, Willian and Thibaut Courtois who surely all deserved to be in the list and you could argue for the inclusion of the likes of Pedro and David Luiz. Well as we know these lists are very subjective and many top stars were snubbed by Goal.com but to leave Hazard and Costa out seems plain ridiculous based on their performances for club and country in recent seasons.

Anyway there is not much that can be done other than to hope that the journalists see sense next year and realise the error of their ways and include the aforementioned Chelsea stars who so clearly deserve to be in the top 50 list. You can read the entire top 50 players from the poll at Goal.com.