Top 5 centre-backs in the league this season | Premier League 2019-20

#4 Conor Coady

Coady has been a real leader at the back for Wolves this season

Much has been made about the recent Portuguese influx in the Wolverhampton Wanderers side, with the newly-promoted side on occasion playing with a flair that is at par with Europe’s top clubs. However, one of the integral parts of Wolves’ successful return to the English top-flight has been their captain Conor Coady. A promising central midfielder during his time in Liverpool’s youth ranks, Coady has reinvented himself as a central defender and plays a vital role at the heart of Wolves’ defence.

Coady has built up a reputation for being an excellent defensive organiser, using his exceptional reading of the game to position himself and his colleagues in defence in the right place at the right time. A tough and uncompromising tackler, Coady has also shown himself to be a fine passer of the ball. If it’s not Ruben Neves or Joao Moutinho, it’s often Coady who’s spraying a 40-yard cross-field ball out to Adama Traore on the wing to begin a trademark Wolves counter-attack.

He has been an ever-present in Wolves’ campaign thus far, helping keep seven clean sheets at the time of writing without missing a single minute of Premier League action this season. His excellent form has even led to rumours of a possible England call-up ahead of the 2020 Euros.