36. Everton and Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini
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It’s been a fantastic season for Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini. The 25-year-old is one of many talented Belgians starring in the Premier League at the moment, and has relished his new attacking midfield role this year.
Previously used as a defensive midfielder, the former Standard Liege man was moved forward by manager David Moyes at the start of the season in what turned out to be a tactical masterstroke. Fellaini started the season with a superb individual match-winning display against Manchester United, scoring the winner with a header to beat the eventual champions 1-0. He terrorised their defence throughout, taking up positions that made him hard to mark, and simply out-muscling most of their players with his strength and height.
He carried on this way for much of the season, finishing with a personal best record of 12 goals and providing 5 assists for his team-mates as well, often using his height to good effect to win knock-downs against opposition centre-backs.
His fine form has seen him unsurprisingly linked with a move to a bigger club, with Moyes said to be keen on taking the Belgian with him to his new post at Manchester United. Arsenal and Chelsea are also showing a strong interest in him, and it seems increasingly likely that he will be playing for a bigger team before long. His minimum release fee clause, rumoured to be around £23million, looks a bargain for such an influential player.
Fellaini’s form at Everton has been excellent and he would surely only improve with better players around him. He is already up there with the best players in the world on current form and if he can get his big move he will cement his place among the world’s best.