Premier League 100: 80-61 featuring Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Raheem Sterling, Diego Costa and more
We reveal the next 20 players to earn their place in our Premier League 100
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Your support makes all the difference.This week, The Independent is counting down through the 100 greatest players ever to grace the Premier League.
We asked all of our sportswriters to rank their greatest players in the history of the league, with each player assigned points before an overall list was then worked out.
In voting for the greatest ever Premier League player, we generally considered a few broad factors: a player’s ability and the actual application of that ability; the consistency of that application; the level they reached; their influence on the competition and – of course – their level of achievement.
Here’s our Chief Football Writer Miguel Delaney explaining exactly what we were looking for, and how the process works.
Each day this week at 10am we will be revealing twenty players, with the winner finally crowned on Friday. We began with numbers 100-81 on Monday.
Here are next twenty players in our countdown, placed from 80th-61st.
IndyPL100: 80-61
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