Frenkie de Jong - Barcelona & Netherlands

Regarded as a genuine game-changer, aside from his technique, dribbling skills, passing, and vision, his other attributes include a penchant for long, accurate, cross-field passes to teammates, dribbling past opponents and absorbing attacking pressure. The way he twists and turns past players in a gentle movement and creates and finds spaces to exploit with his pin-point passing has earned him comparisons to former Barcelona and La Masia legend Andrés Iniesta, as well as former Netherlands, Ajax and Barcelona legend and proponent of Total Football, Johan Cruyff. This has led pundits, experts, fans and legends to regard him as a player with "Barça DNA" ingrained into him and as a "player born to play for Barcelona". de Jong has described himself as a player "who likes to have the ball a lot and play possession.