#2 Fernandinho
Perhaps the most important and the first player on Guardiola's City team which in itself is a big compliment, this Brazilian is perhaps one of the best if not the best CDM in the world. He quietly goes about doing the dirty work in an otherwise crafty City team and perhaps gets unnoticed for his work most of the time. But City without Fernandinho look like a completely different team and his absence is badly felt by them. Two out of the four games that City have lost this season have been when Fernandinho was not on the team which explains it all as to why City require Fernandinho so much. The 33-year-old has been the key factor in City's quest of retaining the title so far and it would not be surprising to see him getting the Player of the Season award given that Kante won the award two seasons ago for a similar kind of performance that season.