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Maurane Fellaini ? an objective viewpoint

By Colin   O'Keeffe  ::  17/11/2011   34 Comments (»Last) I?ve just heard the news that Maurane Fellaini has signed a five-year deal. In the BBC website article, Robert Elstone states that ?Maurane has been a hugely influential player since his arrival.?

I don?t get to enough games to make a judgement from my own experience of seeing him play. However, I?ve been keeping up to date with something called the Castro Edge Rankings. The Castrol Edge Rankings is a rolling 12-month ranking of footballers from across Europe's top 5 leagues and is based on real performances and 100% accurate objective data.

Performance analysts analyse each player's performance in every Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Champions League match. They award each player a Castrol Index score for every match based on their every touch of the ball on the pitch and assess whether it has a positive or negative impact on a team?s ability to score or concede a goal.

So I decided to look at how Fellaini is rated on this and compare this to how other Everton players are rated. Interestingly, this is how they are all ranked.

EFC Castrol-Edge rankings

Ranking (All players in top 5 Euro leagues)

Ranking last month

Player

Ranking points

174

93

P. Jagielka

652

223

186

L. Osman

635

223

174

S. Coleman

635

232

157

L. Baines

632

343

174

S. Distin

600

444

83

T. Cahill

579

444

381

P. Neville

579

585

972

L. Saha

553

596

895

J. Rodwell

551

748

957

T. Hibbert

518

763

720

T.Howard

514

817

948

M.Fellaini

497

985

827

J. Heitinga

436

1234

1198

R. Drenthe

299

1454

1338

D. Bilyaletdinov

208

1609

1481

V. Anichebe

155

1979

1885

M. Gueye

47

1992

1490

M. Hahnemann

44

1999

1965

R. Barkley

42

2035

2041

A. Vellios

35

This suggests that Fellaini is currently well down the list of most valuable Everton players ? coming in below Osman, Coleman, Cahill, Neville and Rodwell amongst our midfielders! People might suggest that the stats must be bollocks ? but I found it interesting that players who are perceived to have being doing well this season (i.e Rodwell, Hibbert) have been climbing these rankings steadily this season. Players perceived to be struggling (ie just about everyone else) have been dropping in the rankings ? most markedly for Tim Cahill.

By the way, the top Castrol ranked players in Europe are Messi, Gomez, Benezema, Van Persie and Ronaldo ? not much to argue with there!

My perception of Fellaini is that he is a decent player ? but someone who doesn?t impact enough where it really matters (ie, in the final third of either half). I just wonder if the club will be getting genuine value for money from this contract I imagine won?t be cheap...

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