He is quick. He can glue his feet to the ball at will when he runs. He has such a low centre of gravity that he can spin and turn in the blink of an eye. He sees openings that others don't see. He can force the ball to move to wherever he chooses. He scores more than other players. He assists more than other players. He can't be stopped. Watch and cherish his contribution while you can.

When can we consider the current Barcelona team one of the greatest teams ever, if not the greatest team ever. It is the best team I have ever seen without question.

A note on the results.

1) I placed the focus on attempts created + shots on target (good shots). Take a look at the ratios - some players are shooters first, others clearly passers first.

2) The top 4 - Malouda, Nasri, Milner and Nani - should not surprise anybody. They are all great players. Adam Johnson is fifth, which is good news for both Man City and England fans. I've watched him many times and he shows outstanding ability.

3) Perhaps some expected Bale higher, but remember that this was not a judgment on a player at his best, but of aggregate player results from all games played. I am a massive Bale fan and could not ask anything more from the player. He is 21 years old and, though he may be capable of outperforming everyone else on the list, he must find consistency, like every youngster.

4) With regards to the bottom two, Joe Cole has had a disastrous start to his Liverpool career. He averaged last season around 1.5 attempts created + 0.7 shots on target per game, so Liverpool fans can expect more from him, but never expect Cole to be a superstar. He never has been a superstar. On the other hand, Aaron Lennon is a great dribbler but really inconsistent with his final ball or shot. He can't pass or shoot consistently and that should pose a problem for his employers.

5) Some players have not played enough minutes in the position to be included - Walcott, Kalou, in particular, come to mind. Their results are skewed by matches at forward.

Top Ten

Some comments:

1) Full marks to Petr Cech. He is shutting down opponents like nothing we've seen in recent years. He has a terrific defense in front of him, one that is limiting opponents to unfriendly opportunities, but this must not take away from Cech. Brilliant!

2) Hart, Schwarzer and Friedal make for no surprise. They are among the Premier League's best goalkeepers every season.

3) It is early days, of course, but there are a few surprises. Notably, Paul Robinson and Jussi have made a great starts to the season and will be looking to maintain consistency going forward. Both have struggled to maintain form so let's hope that they can put together a good season for their teams. On the other hand, Man Utd's Edwin van der Sar is stopping fewer than his mean so far this season..

4) Simon Mignolet has made a terrific EPL start, but the now-fit Craig Gordon has replaced him in goal for Sunderland. Gordon stopped 77% of shots faced last season.

1. Roberto Mancini: Is he getting on your nerves? He says that the press don't like him because he's Italian, not only lying and indirectly calling the English latently racist but deliberately stirring nationalistic divisions. Roberto, the press jumped to conclusions about your talent because you spent too many millions to count and then lost three in a row, including to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Lech Poznan. I would have thought that you would have already realized that the British Press enjoy jumping to conclusions and attacking people. They do the same to everyone about whom a story will sell papers.

2. Andy Carrol's Impending England Call: England players are professional representatives of their country and have to at least stand for minimal English values. He assaulted his ex-girlfriend, committing an assault on an individual and the most elementary British values. No England team should accept violence against women. Yes, if he is deemed skilled enough, he should be called-up, but only if he publicly renounces violence against women.

5. Nedum Onuoha and Michael Turner: I was really impressed with the two of them at White Hart Lane on Tuesday evening. Onuoha did a fantastic job in stopping Gareth Bale, limiting any space for the winger, while Gareth Turner did a masterful job in central defense.

There are two perspectives on Damien Comolli, the new Liverpool Sporting Director.

He is the man who was sacked as Sporting Director of Tottenham Hotspur with the club laying bottom of the Premier League. Current Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has said that he came to Spurs and found the club in shambles.

He is also the man credited with bringing to Spurs Hurelho Gomes, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Luca Modric, Gareth Bale and Roman Pavlyuchenko. You can guess the current combined transfer value of these players - it is probably in the region of £80m - but this value can be added to the £20m profit Spurs already made from Dimitar Berbatov, another of Comolli's signings.

Oh, and you may also know that Spurs are currently in the Champions League. They just beat the European Champions 3-1 with a team comprised largely of Comolli bargains.

So is Comolli the man who led a famous Premier League club with a rich tradition to the brink of relegation or the man who signed the core of a Champions League team and added £100m+ of value to his boss's business?

The first step we should make in reaching a conclusion is to figure out what is the responsibility of a Sporting Director. Well, the precise nature of the role is unclear, but in large part he/she will look after a club's transfer operations, like a General Manager in North American sports. He/she signs players whom are considered beneficial to the club. To list: Scouting? SD's responsibility. Transfer offers? SD's responsibility. Contract negotiations? SD's responsibility.

What a Sporting Director does not do is work on a daily basis with the team. That responsibility is left to the manager. To list: Team selection? Manager's responsibility. Team formation? Manager's responsibility. Team chemistry? Manager's responsibility. Player unhappy? Manager's responsibility.

So we have to examine why Spurs failed during the 07/08 season and for the early part of the 08/09. I analyzed these seasons at the time - 07/08 and early 08/09. Spurs were a team that could perform superbly, but conceded more points from a leading position than perhaps any other team in Premier League history. Their performance were a problem not of player skill but of team chemistry.

So was Comolli responsible for signing selfish players who worked against the team? He was famously criticized by former Spurs manager Martin Jol for signing players without discussing signings with the manager. But, and this is important, I simply look at the current success of the Spurs team and see a core of players who were at the club during Comolli's tenure. Gomes in goal, King and Dawson/Kaboul in defence, Modric and Huddlestone in midfield. The current team succeeds with a spine that has been in existence for several years, built in large part by Comolli. The players were capable of succeeding during his tenure.

Could Camolli have done better during his tenure at Spurs? Well the team seemed to succeed largely with his players right after he left, when Redknapp joined the club. One piece was missing - Palacios played a very important role in early 2009. But I would generally concur that Comolli was not responsible for Spurs' on-pitch woes during his time. Redknapp showed this with his immediate success at the club.

So did Camolli succeed at Spurs? I get a sense that there was a lack of communication between him and the club's managers, but yes he succeeded. His job was to sign players, not to manage the team. To put it bluntly, he signed the core of a Champions League team and added £100m+ of value to his boss's business.

What can Liverpool fans expect from Camolli? Camolli has been consistent in excelling at signing young, talented players. Success will not come overnight but in time Liverpool will realize that some of their young talents are world beaters and, with some financial support, Liverpool will once again be in the Champions League. The future will be bright at Anfield.