Your teams 11 best players you have watched.

Simple concept really the best 11 you can come up with that have played for your club since you have watched them.

Celtic
GK Artur Boruc
RB Didier Agathe
LB Emilio Izaguirre
CB Johan Mjallby
CB Bobo Balde
RM Lubo Moravcik
LM Paolo Di Canio
CM Paul 'Maestro' McStay
CM Paul Lambert
ST Henrik Larsson
ST Pierre Van Hooijdonk

Just missing out are
Pat Bonner- I was just to young to appreciate how good he was.
Tom Boyd- Ex captain and good right back but never had Agathes pace.
Chris Sutton- Just never had as much about him in comparison to Van Hooijdonk.
John Hartson- Better finisher than Sutton and every bit as good a finisher as Van Hooijdonk just never had as much to his all round game as Sutton and Van Hooijdonk.

Liverpool.

GK - Pepe Reina

RB - Phil Neal
LB - Jamie Carragher
CB - Alan Hansen
CB - Sami Hyypia

LM - John Barnes
RM - Steve Mcmanaman
CM - Steven Gerrard
CM - Didi Hamann

ST - Robbie Fowler
ST - Kenny Dalglish

SUBS:

1 - Bruce Grobbelaar
2 - Fernando Torres
3 - Gary McCallister
4 - Danny Murphy
5 - Steve Nicol

Not a bad team at all!

I was going to do a Liverpool one they have always been my favourite English club you are a little older than me though, I would be starting from the spice boys sort of mid 90's onwards.

Is this meant to be judged on how good they were when they played at our teams, or how good they went on to become, or how good their careers have been?

How good they were at your club.

Carlisle United:
GK- Keiren Westwood
RB- Frank Simek
CB- Kevin Gray
CB- Ian Harte
LB- Peter Murphy
DM- Paul Thirwell
RM- Ben Marshall
LM- Simon Hackney
AM- Francois Zoko
ST- Michael Bridges
ST- Danny Graham

Just missing out:
Matt Jansen - I wish I'd seen him more and could remember the games I did see better but I was young and unfortunately I don't.
Rory Delap - Pretty much the same reason as Jansen, don't really remember how good he was, think my memory is biased due to how good his career has turned out to be.
Matty Robson - Doesn't play LM anymore, so I didn't feel it was right to have him as the best LM I've seen and remember.
Zigor Aranalde - Loved the guy, but Murphy wins the place due to his dedication to the club.
Richard Keogh - Poor at CB, good when moved to RB, but as much as it got the whole crowd going when you went and joined in the attack you still weren't the best defensively.

FreekShow wrote:Liverpool.

GK - Pepe Reina

RB - Phil Neal
LB - Jamie Carragher
CB - Alan Hansen
CB - Sami Hyypia

LM - John Barnes
RM - Steve Mcmanaman
CM - Steven Gerrard
CM - Didi Hamann

ST - Robbie Fowler
ST - Kenny Dalglish

SUBS:

1 - Bruce Grobbelaar
2 - Fernando Torres
3 - Gary McCallister
4 - Danny Murphy
5 - Steve Nicol

Not a bad team at all!

Good team but I'm surprised to see no Rush in their.

prettyboykev wrote:

FreekShow wrote:Liverpool.

GK - Pepe Reina

RB - Phil Neal
LB - Jamie Carragher
CB - Alan Hansen
CB - Sami Hyypia

LM - John Barnes
RM - Steve Mcmanaman
CM - Steven Gerrard
CM - Didi Hamann

ST - Robbie Fowler
ST - Kenny Dalglish

SUBS:

1 - Bruce Grobbelaar
2 - Fernando Torres
3 - Gary McCallister
4 - Danny Murphy
5 - Steve Nicol

Not a bad team at all!

Good team but I'm surprised to see no Rush in their.

It was a toss up between Rush and Torres for a bench spot. To be fair we have been spoilt with strikers over the years.

Celtic
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeil
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
Bench:
Williams
McGrain
Hay
Connelly
Dalglish
Larsson
Hughes (Yogi)

Eyetoldyouso wrote:Celtic
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeil
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
Bench:
Williams
McGrain
Hay
Connelly
Dalglish
Larsson
Hughes (Yogi)

Not a bad side buddy but surely King Kenny deserves a starting place?

Aberdeen XI

Peter Kjaer

Markus Heikkinen
Russell Anderson
Derek Whyte

Jamie Smith
Barry Nicholson
Scott Severin
Haichem Zerouali

Arild Stavrum
Robbie Winters
Lee Miller

FreekShow wrote:

Eyetoldyouso wrote:Celtic
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeil
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
Bench:
Williams
McGrain
Hay
Connelly
Dalglish
Larsson
Hughes (Yogi)

Not a bad side buddy but surely King Kenny deserves a starting place?

On what they did at Celtic I would say Kenny on the bench is pretty fair. Larsson deserves to be ahead of Kenny purely on Celtic performances imo.

AberdeenSteve wrote:Aberdeen XI

Peter Kjaer

Markus Heikkinen
Russell Anderson
Derek Whyte

Jamie Smith
Barry Nicholson
Scott Severin
Haichem Zerouali

Arild Stavrum
Robbie Winters
Lee Miller

Great team Steve no Charlie Mulgrew?

prettyboykev wrote:

AberdeenSteve wrote:Aberdeen XI

Peter Kjaer

Markus Heikkinen
Russell Anderson
Derek Whyte

Jamie Smith
Barry Nicholson
Scott Severin
Haichem Zerouali

Arild Stavrum
Robbie Winters
Lee Miller

Great team Steve no Charlie Mulgrew?

He would have been in if I hadn't played the formation that I did. I would have gone with Mulgrew on the left and McNaughton on the right hand side but went with the three centre backs.

Newcastle XI

GK- Shay Given

RB- Habib Beye
CB- Phillepe Albert
CB- John Beresford
LB- Jose Enrique

RM- David Ginola
CM- Rob Lee
CM- Gary Speed
LM- Peter Beardsley

ST- Alan Shearer
ST- Andy Cole

Chelsea

Cech

Ivanovic
JT
Desailly
Ashley

Lamps
Makelele
Petit

Robben
Drogba
Zola

Subs
Cudicini
Gallas
Carvalho
Ballack
Essien
Joe Cole
Crespo


I first went to Stamford Bridge in 2002 and the midfield partnership of Lamps and Petit was great.

Liam_Main wrote:Newcastle XI

GK- Shay Given

RB- Habib Beye
CB- Phillepe Albert
CB- John Beresford
LB- Jose Enrique

RM- David Ginola
CM- Rob Lee
CM- Paul Gascgoine
LM- Peter Beardsley

ST- Alan Shearer
ST- Andy Cole

Your only 16 you can't remember Gascoine playing for Newcastle.

prettyboykev wrote:

Liam_Main wrote:Newcastle XI

GK- Shay Given

RB- Habib Beye
CB- Phillepe Albert
CB- John Beresford
LB- Jose Enrique

RM- David Ginola
CM- Rob Lee
CM- Paul Gascgoine
LM- Peter Beardsley

ST- Alan Shearer
ST- Andy Cole

Your only 16 you can't remember Gascoine playing for Newcastle.

Replaced by Gary Speed then.

Eyetoldyouso wrote:Celtic
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeil
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
Lennox
Bench:
Williams
McGrain
Hay
Connelly
Dalglish
Larsson
Hughes (Yogi)

I never realised at the time which I am ashamed of but this starting 11 is the Lisbon Lions.

MUFC 11

Schmeichel
Irwin - Stam - Vidic - Evra
Beckham - Robson - Keane - Giggs
Cantona - Hughes

Bench - Ferdinand - G.Neville - VDS - Scholes - McClair - Ronaldo - Solskjaer

very tough to choose

taffy_crisp wrote:MUFC 11

Schmeichel
Irwin - Stam - Vidic - Evra
Beckham - Robson - Keane - Giggs
Cantona - Hughes

Bench - Ferdinand - G.Neville - VDS - Scholes - McClair - Ronaldo - Solskjaer

very tough to choose

Taffy Giggs and Beckham ahead of Ronaldo?

prettyboykev wrote:

taffy_crisp wrote:MUFC 11

Schmeichel
Irwin - Stam - Vidic - Evra
Beckham - Robson - Keane - Giggs
Cantona - Hughes

Bench - Ferdinand - G.Neville - VDS - Scholes - McClair - Ronaldo - Solskjaer

very tough to choose

Taffy Giggs and Beckham ahead of Ronaldo?

Obviously or Ronaldo wouldn't be on the bench....

prettyboykev wrote:

taffy_crisp wrote:MUFC 11

Schmeichel
Irwin - Stam - Vidic - Evra
Beckham - Robson - Keane - Giggs
Cantona - Hughes

Bench - Ferdinand - G.Neville - VDS - Scholes - McClair - Ronaldo - Solskjaer

very tough to choose

Taffy Giggs and Beckham ahead of Ronaldo?

Ronaldo is more of a stiker to me, as out an out wingers Becks and Giggs were better

prettyboykev

What took you so long?

Fair point he is awesome from the left though gets to the back post from wide areas better than anyone around. I was always a big Ronaldo fan I really like the guy most hate him. I need to ask is he only left out because he left for Real?

if i put him in people would only have asked why have i left Becks or Giggs out of the team. i stick by what i said, i see him more as a striker and Becks and Giggs offer more to the team.

Eyetoldyouso wrote:prettyboykev

What took you so long?

I don't know mate I'm ashamed of my self. Would you have Larsson ahead of Dalglish on their times at Celtic?

Blackburn

GK - Tim Flowers

RB - Henning Berg
CB - Colin Hendry
CB - Kevin Moran
LB - Graeme Le Saux

RM - David Bentley
CM - David Dunn
CM - Tim Sherwood
LM - Damien Duff

ST - Alan Shearer
ST - Chris Sutton

Subs
GK - Brad Friedel
DF - Nelsen
DF - Neill
MD - Morten Gamst Pedersen
MD - David Batty
ST - Mike Newell
ST - Matt Jansen

prettyboykev wrote:

Eyetoldyouso wrote:prettyboykev

What took you so long?

I don't know mate I'm ashamed of my self. Would you have Larsson ahead of Dalglish on their times at Celtic?

That's a hard call. Probably 60:40 in Dalglish's favour. Feel that he did a bit more for the team, although you can't knock a goalscorer as great as Henrik. To me the greatness of the Lisbon Lions was their ability to play as a team.

Eyetoldyouso wrote:

prettyboykev wrote:

Eyetoldyouso wrote:prettyboykev

What took you so long?

I don't know mate I'm ashamed of my self. Would you have Larsson ahead of Dalglish on their times at Celtic?

That's a hard call. Probably 60:40 in Dalglish's favour. Feel that he did a bit more for the team, although you can't knock a goalscorer as great as Henrik. To me the greatness of the Lisbon Lions was their ability to play as a team.

I've not seen as much of Dalglish as I did Henrik just videos of King Kenny so I'm biased towards Henrik. The Lions were a truely wonderful side and a one off. Never repeated and never will be.

As a West Ham fan this is very irritating...we have had so much talent in our sides through the years that to list a best of is almost like a 'what could have been' exercise. Nevertheless...

GK: Ludek Miklosko

RB: Stuart Pearce (yes, he is traditionally left-back, but that spot is taken!)
LB: Julian Dicks
CB: Rio Ferdinand
CB: Slaven Bilic

RM: Eyal Berkovic
LM: Joe Cole
CM: Scott Parker
CM: Frank Lampard

FW: Paolo Di Canio
FW: John Hartson

Honourable mentions to Steve Potts, Michael Carrick, Trevor Sinclair, Freddie Kanoute and probably numerous others that I have missed.

That's an excellent team mate. A few home-grown ones in their as well.

It's sickening isn't it? Just imagine what could have been if we'd kept some of our players.

We'd have Rio, Lampard, Cole, Carrick, Defoe, Johnson, Parker, Green, Upson etc all in one team! Oh well, at least I can grow old and bitter with good reason.

sodhat wrote:It's sickening isn't it? Just imagine what could have been if we'd kept some of our players.

We'd have Rio, Lampard, Cole, Carrick, Defoe, Johnson, Parker, Green, Upson etc all in one team! Oh well, at least I can grow old and bitter with good reason.

I always say this, the West Ham players that were all sold weren't good enough to cut it at West Ham and only got into the England team when they were at their new club. Joe Cole got in whilst at West Ham but wasn't as good as Mourinho made him, Scott Parker only gets mentioned because he's the best of a bad bunch.

The only current West Ham England internationals were England players before they signed.

West Ham may have a good academy but it's Chelsea, United and Spurs that made the players great.

Manning-to-Manningham wrote:

sodhat wrote:It's sickening isn't it? Just imagine what could have been if we'd kept some of our players.

We'd have Rio, Lampard, Cole, Carrick, Defoe, Johnson, Parker, Green, Upson etc all in one team! Oh well, at least I can grow old and bitter with good reason.

I always say this, the West Ham players that were all sold weren't good enough to cut it at West Ham and only got into the England team when they were at their new club. Joe Cole got in whilst at West Ham but wasn't as good as Mourinho made him, Scott Parker only gets mentioned because he's the best of a bad bunch.

The only current West Ham England internationals were England players before they signed.

West Ham may have a good academy but it's Chelsea, United and Spurs that made the players great.

I can agree to an extent, but I tend to think rather than making them 'great' they made them more prominent. You don't need to play for a bigger club to become great, if the ability is within the player they will show it anywhere.

Rio made his England debut while at West Ham, as did Carrick. Parker may be the best of a bad bunch here, but for England he fully deserves his place in the holding role. He's far more versatile than a Gareth Barry type player.

Leeds XI

GK: Martyn

LB: Tony Dorigo
CB: Lucas Radebe
CB: Jonny Woodgate
RB: Gary Kelly

LM: Harry Kewell
CM: Gary McAllister
CM: Gary Speed
RM: James Milner

CF: Tony Yeboah
CF: Mark Viduka

Subs: Paul Robinson, Ian Harte, Rio Ferdinand, Jermaine Beckford, Jonny Howson, Jimmy Floyd Hass and Alan Smith.

Preston 11

GK: Andy Lonergan

DR: Billy Jones
CB: Youl Mawene
CB: Claude Davis
LB: Matty Hill

RW: Simon Whaley
CM: Paul McKenna
CM: Graham Alexander
LW: Kieth Treacy

S: Dave Nugent
S: Ian Hume

Rangers 11

Goram

Davie Weir
Gough
Whittiker
Numan

Laudrup
Gazza
B Ferguson
Gio Van Bronkhorst

Mccoist
Hateley

Nay Bother wrote:Rangers 11

Goram

Davie Weir
Gough
Whittiker
Numan

Laudrup
Gazza
B Ferguson
Gio Van Bronkhorst

Mccoist
Hateley

Awful team my Hoops one would wipe the floor with them.

ha ha

would be a match worth watching.

you forgot Scott Brown out your team :p

Better chance of Maw Broon getting game mate.

Ipswich Team
GK-Kelvin Davis
RB-Fabian Wilnis
CB-Tony Mowbray
CB-Jason De Vos
LB-Jamie Clapham
RM-Martijn Reuser
CM- Matt Holland
CM- Jim Magilton
LM-Giovanni Dos Santos
ST-Marcus Stewart
ST-Darren Bent

GK- Shay Given

RB- Nobby Solano
CB- Phillipe Albert
CB- Jon Woodgate
LB- John Beresford

DM - Lee Bowyer

RM- David Ginola
CM- Paul Gascoigne
LM- Peter Beardsley

ST- Alan Shearer
ST- Tino Asprilla

Where do i fit in Chrissy Waddle, and Craig Bellamy....

Man Utd

Schemiechel

Irwin
Vidic
Ferdinand
Evra

Giggs
Scholes
Keane

Ronaldo
Rooney
Cantona

If there's a better team than that on this thread then I'm a Dutchman

Leeds XI

GK: Martyn

LB: Terry Cooper
CB: Jack Charlton
CB: Norman Hunter
RB: Paul Reaney
LM: Johnny Giles
CM: Gary McAllister
CM: Gary Speed
RM: Billy Bremner
CF: Allan Clarke
CF: Mick Jones
Subs: John Charles,Paul Robinson,Gordon McQueen Ian Harte, Rio Ferdinand, Jermaine Beckford, Paul Madeley, Jimmy Floyd Hass and Alan Smith..

Brady12 wrote:Man Utd

Schemiechel

Irwin
Vidic
Ferdinand
Evra

Giggs
Scholes
Keane

Ronaldo
Rooney
Cantona

If there's a better team than that on this thread then I'm a Dutchman

Not a bad side Van Brady!

Who plays right back, Irwin or Evra?

Celtic
GK Artur Boruc
RB Danny McGrain
LB Emilio Izaguirre
CB Johan Mjallby
CB Marc Reiper
LM Lubo Moravcik
RM Stan Petrov
CM Beram Kayal
CM Paul Lambert
ST Henrik Larsson
ST Pierre Van Hooijdonk

Aberdeem Steve no Billy Dodds?

Liverpool (Bearing in mind I have only been watching footy since around 1999)

GK- Reina

RB- Finnan
CB- Hyypia
CB- Carragher
LB- Riise

CDM- Alonso
CDM- Hamann

CAM- Gerrard

ST- Fowler
ST- Owen
ST- Torres

As an actual team it'd probably do rubbish, but I just tried to get in all the best players I had watched.