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#9 Virgil Van Dijk
Having a centre-back pop up on this list is a bit of a rare occurrence. When Liverpool shelled out £75 million last January to secure the services of Virgil Van Dijk in a bid to shore up their defence, even they wouldn't have expected the Dutchman to make the kind of impact he has inside a year at Anfield.
Van Dijk now captains the side in the absence of Jordan Henderson and is an absolute human roadblock that's helping Klopp greatly in his attempts to make Anfield a fortress. Van Dijk is, without doubt, one of the finest centre-backs in the world right now and has a huge role to play in the Reds being on top of the Premier League table right now.
He helped Liverpool keep 5 cleansheets in the month of December alone. If the former Southampton man kicks on in the same vein, he will eventually be regarded as one of the best centre-backs to have ever played in the Premier League and for that reason, Van Dijk becomes a surprise entrant in this list.
