{"id":847211,"date":"2025-05-10T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/premier-leagues-highest-rated-center-backs-van-dijk-and-saliba-lead-calvin-bassey-outshines-man-city-chelsea-stars\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:12:32","slug":"premier-leagues-highest-rated-center-backs-van-dijk-and-saliba-lead-calvin-bassey-outshines-man-city-chelsea-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/premier-leagues-highest-rated-center-backs-van-dijk-and-saliba-lead-calvin-bassey-outshines-man-city-chelsea-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League\u2019s highest-rated center-backs: Van Dijk and Saliba lead, Calvin Bassey outshines Man City, Chelsea stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles defender Calvin Bassey is the fourth-highest-rated centre-back in the English Premier League, according to Data MB, Soccernet.ng reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bassey has had an impressive campaign with Fulham this season. He has grown remarkably from his struggles at Ajax two seasons ago to become a player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik-foot.com\/en-ng\/mature-calvin-bassey-is-the-rock-barcelona-need-after-another-ucl-heartbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touted to be a solution to Barcelona&#8217;s defensive problems.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/u20-afcon-nigerias-flying-eagles-2.html\">Confirmed: Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles to face reigning champions Senegal in QF after Ghana top Group C at U20 AFCON<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/victor-osimhens-galatasaray-2.html\">Victor Osimhen\u2019s teen cousin set to leave Galatasaray five months after departing Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/it-still-haunts-me-okocha-issues-warning-to-super-eagles-stars-lookman-and-osimhen.html\"><strong>\u2018It still haunts me\u2019 \u2013 Okocha issues warning to Super Eagles stars Lookman and Osimhen<\/strong> \u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This season, the 25-year-old has helped the Cottagers claim big wins against top clubs like Liverpool, Tottenham, and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imago1061628930-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Youri Tielemans of Aston Villa battles for the ball with Calvin Bassey of Fulham \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160010\">Youri Tielemans of Aston Villa battles for the ball with Calvin Bassey of Fulham (Photo credit: Imago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To further accentuate his brilliance for Fulham this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DataMB_\/status\/1920418922081157167\" target=\"_blank\">Data MB<\/a>, a platform that uses data to analyze players&#8217; performances, has named Bassey as the fourth-best centre-back in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool star Virgil Van Dijk tops the list, while he is closely followed by Arsenal&#8217;s William Saliba. Chelsea&#8217;s Levi Colwill follows in third, while Bassey sits in third.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahima Konate is fifth, while Van Hecke, Nathan Collins, Lisandro Martinez, Dean Huijsen, and Lewis Dunk complete the top ten.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Highest rated centrebacks in the Premier League this season (Performance Index) \u2694\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>98 \u2014 Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool, 33)<br \/>\n90 \u2014 William Saliba (Arsenal, 24)<br \/>\n83 \u2014 Levi Colwill (Chelsea, 22)<br \/>\n82 \u2014 Calvin Bassey (Fulham, 25)<br \/>\n81 \u2014 Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 (Liverpool, 25)<\/p>\n<p>Free\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIs8ZJsLVP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nIs8ZJsLVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DataMB (@DataMB_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DataMB_\/status\/1920418922081157167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Soccer Is it time for Calvin Bassey to get a big move?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imago1060990486-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Evanilson 9 of AFC Bournemouth battles for possession with Calvin Bassey 3 of Fulham\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160011\">Evanilson 9 of AFC Bournemouth battles for possession with Calvin Bassey 3 of Fulham (Photo credit: imago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of the time of this report, no big club has shown serious interest in acquiring Calvin Bassey&#8217;s services. However, that could quickly change.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his jovial nature off the pitch, Bassey has proven to be very smart, technical, and ruthless in the way he goes about his business. Even if the former Ajax man does not get a big transfer this sumer, he could get it by next summer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soccer Kelvin Omachonu\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240522-WA0001-150x150.jpg\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/kelvin\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu is a writer with many years of experience covering sports events in Nigeria and abroad. He is fueled by his love for the job, and is dedicated to delivering captivating stories.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/premier-leagues-highest-rated-center-backs-van-dijk-and-saliba-lead-calvin-bassey-outshines-man-city-chelsea-stars.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kelvin Omachonu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles defender Calvin Bassey is the fourth-highest-rated centre-back in the English Premier League, according to Data MB, Soccernet.ng reports. Bassey has had an impressive campaign with Fulham this season. He has grown remarkably from his struggles at Ajax two seasons ago to become a player touted to be a solution to Barcelona&#8217;s defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33631,26186,2005],"tags":[95009,7230],"class_list":{"0":"post-847211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues","8":"category-premier","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-leagues","11":"tag-premier"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}