When I ranked the top 50 players before the Premier League season started, the landscape of the league seemed relatively settled. Liverpool and Arsenal would battle it out for the title; Manchester City might do the same if Rodri came back healthy; Chelsea seemed adrift from that top trio, and also everybody else as the surefire fourth-best team in the league.

Those teams were the clear four best teams because they had the clear four-best rosters. So, how do we explain where we find ourselves today?

Nine games into the season, Arsenal are in first, yes, but then they are followed by ... Bournemouth , Tottenham , and Sunderland ? Did you read that right? Bournemouth, Spurs, and Sunderland really round out the top four? And then Man City are down in fifth, Liverpool in

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