Our highly rated winger Will Buckley has been ranked as one of the best prospects in the world, alongside a string of foreign superstars according to The Times.

The Times in one of their regular list based features decided to concentrate on players that they had down as being the next big things in the game. Indeed, this was their accompanying prose: Some names on this list of football starlets you will know, others you may not. They hail from leagues from all over the world, but are united by their potential to make it big in the coming year.

With our Will coming in at 49, they waxed lyrical about him saying: The 20-year-old winger is in his first full season at Spotland if he continues to play as well as he has done this season, it may be his last in League Two.

The full list is as follows:

1. Hernanes (Sao Paulo)
2. Karim Benzema (Lyons)
3. David Silva (Valencia)
4. Radamel Falcao Garcia (River Plate)
5. Douglas Costa (Gremio)
6. Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)
7. John Fleck (Rangers)
8. Jozy Altidore (Villarreal)
9. Fabio Da Silva (Manchester United)
10. Claudio Marchisio (Juventus)
11. Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim)
12. Marek Hamsik (Napoli)
13. Steve Mandanda (Marseilles)
14. Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli)
15. Sofiane Feghouli (Grenoble)
16. Diego Buonanotte (River Plate)
17. Adam Johnson (Middlesbrough)
18. Angel Di Maria (Benfica)
19. Mario Balotelli (Inter Milan)
20. Thiago Silva (free agent, joining AC Milan in June)
21. Nathan Delfouneso (Aston Villa)
22. Kieran Westwood (Coventry City)
23. Guillaume Hoarau (Paris Saint-Germain)
24. Piet Velthuizen (Vitesse Arnhem)
25. Andre-Pierre Gignac (Toulouse)
26. Mark Noble (West Ham United)
27. Mounir El Hamdaoui (AZ Alkmaar)
28. Fabian Delph (Leeds United)
29. Jack Collison (West Ham United)
30. Masal Bugduv (Olimpia Balti)
31. Jose Baxter (Everton)
32. Robert Lewandowski (Lech Poznan)
33. Dan Gosling (Everton)
34. Sebastian Giovinco (Juventus)
35. Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar)
36. Kyle Naughton (Sheffield United)
37. Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen)
38. Mark Beevers (Sheffield Wednesday)
39. Joao Miranda (Sao Paulo)
40. Lee Chung-yong (FC Seoul)
41. Daniel Opare (Real Madrid)
42. Victor Moses (Crystal Palace)
43. Patrik Ingelsten (Heerenveen)
44. David McGoldrick (Southampton)
45. Rabiu Ibrahim (Sporting Lisbon)
46. Sam Baldock (MK Dons)
47. Khalfan Ibrahim (Al Sadd)
48. Shannon Cole (Sydney FC)
49. Will Buckley (Rochdale)
50. Ahmad Khalil (Al Ahly)

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