10 players who epitomize their club

#4 Ross Barkley

Barkley has still not hit his peak

Ross Barkley perhaps hasn’t quite hit the heights expected of him as yet, both for club and country, but he is one of the most naturally gifted players that Everton and England have.

Though he seems to have been around for an age, he is still just 23 and theoretically four years away from his peak. That’s frightening.

An attacking midfielder by trade, he was born on Merseyside and joined Everton as an 11-year-old. He would’ve made his debut for the Toffees at 16 – mirroring Wayne Rooney – were it not for a broken leg sustained in a challenge with Liverpool’s Andre Wisdom in an U19 match.

Quick, physical and aggressive, and with a decent footballing brain, Barkley is very much the modern day footballer and will be around for some time to come.