Lionel Messi
Ronaldo scored goals from any distance and any angle and you just have to watch the film-documentary about him to understand that it is the competition with Messi, more than anything else, that drives him to these heights. Yet his old adversary, once again, has that little extra on top. Messi is still the player you always want on the ball. He is still the player who takes the sport to its greatest heights and there is still that instantaneous ripple of expectation when he moves on to the ball, wherever he is on the pitch and whoever he is playing against.Messi does it as a matter of routine: the speed, the balance, the self-belief to back himself every time, the anticipation, the knowledge of how to make the ball do whatever he wants. And that hunger. Messi has been at the top of his sport for years but never leaves the sense that he wants to stop to admire the view. There is never a flicker of complacency, just that fixed expression and the clear sense that no matter who the opposition put on him, whoever kicks him and however much they try to negate him, he will always find a way. There is not enough said about the personal discipline that must go into maintaining that standard of excellence, but it is one of the principal reasons why this small man with the rarest gifts is a giant of the sport.
Cristiano Ronaldo
In a year when Cristiano Ronaldo seemed more or less the same, just slightly less so, he was the top pick on the Top 100 list of just 7% of judges after careering off as runaway leader last year with a massive 74%. At the same time Real Madrid's all-time galáctico, by mid-December, had still managed to score 52 goals for club and country, set a new Guinness world record for all-time "most liked" person on Facebook, and churned out a familiarly relentless stream of goals, assists, shots and arm-waggling sprints from that bespoke centre forward role. Aged 30, with 12 years of elite level football behind him, there is a sense of Ronaldo's powers not so much diminishing as condensing. This, it seems, is his way of ageing. He still runs a lot, just with an ever narrower range, more focused on shooting and scoring. His detractors will point out that he has been the hammer of the second-rankers with 28 goals – more than half his annual total – in eight games against Malmo, Espanyol, Shakhtar Donetsk, Getafe, Granada and Armenia. His supporters might point to the fact he is still jaw-droppingly prolific even in an unsettled Real team, under a manager with whom he appears to have an anti-chemistry.
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Luis Suárez
In 2015 he hit the jackpot, finding at the age of 28, after more than 500 games as a professional, the extreme outer limits of his own brilliant striking talent. Suárez was the No1 pick of 8% of judges, more than Cristiano Ronaldo, but his influence is stamped right across that top four. Switched to the centre at the end of last year the Uruguayan was Barcelona's catalyst, glue, and alternately the brains and muscle of the side's sublime attacking trident, creating space with his movement and hustle, linking brilliantly and helping to elevate both his front-running partners to new, or in Messi's case renewed, levels. Missing the Copa América because of his ban for biting during the 2014 World Cup is the only negative, and the most obvious argument against nudging Suárez.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
He returns to the top 10 after a year that saw him win the league with Paris St-Germain and almost single-handedly take Sweden to Euro 2016. Still a talisman for club and country, he seems determined to make the most of his final years in top-level football. He scored 19 goals in 24 matches in the 2014-15 season as PSG won the league by eight points and had 12 goals in 12 league games in early December 2015 as his club opened up a chastening 15-point gap at the top of the table. And that was despite persistent injury problems at the start of the 2015-16 season. The National Front did not take take kindly to his comments and its president, Marine Le Pen, said he could leave if he did not like living there. He later apologised. A personal highlight of the year came in November when he scored three of the four goals as Sweden eliminated Denmark in the Euro 2016 play-offs, the final one a beautiful free-kick.
Sergio Agüero
Manchester City striker has had another prolific year despite having suffered two spells on the sidelines due to a knee injury and a troublesome hamstring. His three goals in five games helped Argentina reach the Copa América final in the summer but, undoubtedly, his highlight of 2015 was the jaw-dropping one-man wrecking-ball job against Newcastle, in which he showcased his ability to poach, play off the shoulder, strike from distance and generally terrorise defenders like only a select few can. His five goals in 20 second-half minutes made it clear why the forward is generally considered to be the Premier League's one true global star. His nerveless last-minute penalty against Borussia Mönchengladbach provided the springboard for City's qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League. Uncomplicated, unerring and universally respected, his questionable fitness is his only drawback. He is in the midst of his peak years, and English football is lucky to have him.
Andrés Iniesta
A steadfastly excellent 2015 leading to a 16-place jump from last year's ranking. He orchestrated much of the play behind Barcelona's vaunted front three during a treble-winning season that he capped with a man-of-the-match display in the Champions League final. And he continued in that vein after a rare summer break, his deftly destructive performance in November's magnificent 4-0 clásico victory earning applause even from Real Madrid supporters and, perhaps, convincing one of our 115 judges to rank him as the best player in the world
Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré, who is be 32, does not quite present the threat of old but equally accurate is the fact that Manchester City badly miss him when he is not around. Touré scored 13 times last season but has struggled to get going this term. It suggests a sharp tailing-off from his almost unplayable best, yet at the same time it is hard to imagine Manuel Pellegrini’s side winning the Premier League without another prominent contribution from the Ivorian. Touré’s crowning achievement this year – and, he might say, in his entire career – came in February.
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney finally broke Sir Bobby Charlton’s England goal scoring record in. What else? He scored a hat-trick against Club Brugge. He slapped a wrestler in the face. Yet the negatives are impossible to ignore. Rooney turned 30 in October and his decline has left him open to accusations that he is over the hill. While he is not the only Manchester United striker who has struggled under Louis van Gaal, stylistic concerns cannot mask Rooney’s stodgy performances and his poor touch.
Neymar Jr.
Neymar is surely destined to be the world’s best player, and he is just 23. He has won the treble with Barcelona, been joint top scorer in the Champions League, including a goal in the final, and has played a leading role so far this season in the absence of Lionel Messi with performances that have been consistently extraordinary and fantastically fun too. That was perhaps best encapsulated by the remark made by his team-mate Luis Suárez. “I don’t dribble round three or four players like Neymar does.” It’s true, Neymar does, over and over again, a trail of bamboozled defenders left in his wake. “He’s electric. When he runs into the area, either they commit a penalty or he scores,” Luis Enrique said. And if that might sound frivolous, it is not: the productivity in 2015 has been quite astonishing.
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich signed Robert Lewandowski in the summer of 2014, like a small boy shrugging his shoulders after getting a Playstation at Christmas. Raising suspicions that Bayern’s manager really would have liked another midfielder instead. How ridiculous those misgivings feel now. After a slightly awkward start to 2015, which began with Lewandowski trotting off in the 71st minute of a 4-1 defeat to Wolfsburg in January, he has cemented his reputation as the deadliest striker in Europe and risen 25 places in our rankings. A significant moment in his Bayern career arrived when he scored twice in the 6-1 victory over Porto in the last eight of the Champions League in April and his numbers since then are startling. There was the five-goal burst in the space of nine minutes that turned a 1-0 deficit into a 5-1 lead against Wolfsburg in September, which sparked a run of 15 goals in six games for club and country, and he was inspirational in Poland’s successful qualifying campaign for Euro 2016
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