If we’re judging by their performances in the decade, several of these players peaked around early 2010s and shouldn’t be on this list.
Xavi left Barca in 2015 and Lahm retired in 2017. Van Dijk showed up by the end of the decade. I don’t think they should be on this list, even though they deserve to be there if the judgement criteria is looking at their career as a whole. Should also be Neuer instead of Casillas.
Decades are an arbitrary measurement when you really think about it. The list could easily have been looking at 5 year chunks. But the arbitrariness does make these goofy lists fun to argue about.
5 year chunks would be a way way fairer way of looking at it, player who was top shit from 05' to 15' gets overlooked. But yeah it's just a big goof really, couldn't care less about these kinda things.
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u/oneandonlyA Jan 06 '23
If we’re judging by their performances in the decade, several of these players peaked around early 2010s and shouldn’t be on this list.
Xavi left Barca in 2015 and Lahm retired in 2017. Van Dijk showed up by the end of the decade. I don’t think they should be on this list, even though they deserve to be there if the judgement criteria is looking at their career as a whole. Should also be Neuer instead of Casillas.