The task is simple, pick a starting 11 (any formation, no 4-5-1 though, we're not boring) and 5 subs to form the ultimate Premier League team...
GK: Schemichel-The best keeper the premier league sas
RB: G Neville- Controversial, but an underrated defender
LB: I'm stuck on this one, I really don't want to put le saux
CB: Tony Adams-The guy was a brick wall, immense
CB: Psycho-One of the best english defenders ever
RW: Beckham-At man utd was unstopabble, pin point accuracy
LW: Giggs-There isn't a better winger anywhere
DM: Roy Keane- A tosser but fucking good in his day
AM: JUNINHO- easy choice, this is the only time personal feeling and nostalgia crept in
ST: Cantona-An arrogant french goal machine
ST: Henry- A smug french goal machine
Subs:
GK: Seaman
D: Pallister
M: Brian Robson
M: Ljungberg
ST: Shearer
your turn
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Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I'll take Pallister into the CB berth off your bench, and play Zola in the hole behind the strikers. Ahead of Juninho.
In fact I'm gonna come back with my own team after I've given it due consideration... this is a serious matter.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: John Scales
LB: Stuart Pearce
CB: Tony Adams
CB: Jaap Stam
LW: Ryan Giggs
RW: Steve Mcmanaman
CM: Roy Keane
ACM: Matt Le Tissier
FW: Eric Cantona
FW: Alan Shearer
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
GK: Peter Schmeichel
RB: Dan Petrescu
LB: Graham Le Saux
CB: Tony Adams
CB: John Terry
CB/DM: Marcel Desailly
DM: Roy Keane
LM: Dennis Wise
RM: David Beckham
FR: Matt Le Tissier
FW: Stan Collymore
SB: Antti Niemi
SB: Gary Neville
SB: Frank Lampard
SB: Ryan Giggs
SB: Alan Shearer
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
GK. Peter Schmeichel
RB. Gary Neville
CB. Tony Adams
CB. Marcel Dessailly
LB. Stuart Pearce
M. Roy Keane
M. Patrick Vieira
M. Steven Gerrard
AM. Matt Le Tissier
FW. Alan Shearer
FW. Thierry Henry
Subs.
Peter Cech
Frank Leboef
Ryan Giggs
Eric Cantona
Michael Owen
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I really wanted to get kanchelskis in on the right, but my ultra defence ideas about formations wouldnt let me... ah well...
Good to see so many people agree on le tissier :)
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: Gary Neville, people slate him and it annoys me a lot
LB: Stuart Pearce
CB: Tony Adams
CB: Frank Leboeuf
RM: David Beckham, sorry
LM: David Ginola because I can't really justify Anders Limpar
CM: Paul Ince
CM: Roy Keane
CF: Thierry Henry
CF: Eric Cantona
I don't actually support manchester united at all, don't know whats happened here
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
The Great Dane
LB) Dennis Irwin
RB) Gary Neville
CB) Gary Pallister
CB) Steve Bruce
LW) Ryan Giggs
RW) Beckham
CM) Roy Keane
CM) Paul Scholes
FW) Eric Cantona
CF) Thierry Henry
Sorry :)
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
GK) Schmeichal
RB) Gary Neville
LB) Nigel Winterburn
CB) Tony Adams
CB) John Terry
MR) David Beckham
ML) Ryan Giggs
MC) Roy Keane
MC) Patrick Vieira
FC) GIANFRANCO ZOLA!
FC) Eric Cantona
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
GK: Schmiechel (obviously)
DR: Gary Neville (as Josh said a very underrated defender)
DL: Stuart Pearce (Say no more)
DC: Gareth Southgate (Not because i'm a Boro fan, a true top class defender)
DC: Stuck between Adams or Campbell... Adams.
MC: Beckham (His vision, his passing, crossing...)
MC: Patrick Viera
MC: Juninho ( Come on....)
ST: Cantona - genius
ST: Henry - genius
ST: Van Nistelrooy - genius
SUBS:
GK: Seaman
D: Campbell
M: Giggs
ST: Shearer
ST: Fowler
That'd be a good team methinks.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
pearce
greville
adams
campbell
viera
keane
beckham
giggs
shearer
henry
semen
pallister
cole
zola
owen
there's not really much else around realistically
3 strikers on the bench
for when they're already 7-0 up and want double figures
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: Gary Neville
CB: Marcel Desailly
CB: Tony Adams
LB: Stuart Pearce
RW: Andrei Kanchelskis
MD: Dennis Wise
MD: David Batty
LW: Ryan Giggs
FW: Alan Shearer
FW: Gianfranco Zola
subs: Cech, Hendry, Keane, Henry, Le Tissier.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Pearce
Rob Jones
Adams
Hyypia
Batty
Speed
Strachan
McAllister
Henry
Shearer
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
D: Bruce
The Neviller (G)
Pallister
Adams
M: Keane
Viera
Giggs
Beckham
S: Shearer
Cantona
Subs:
Seaman
Pallister
Le Tissier
Andy Cole
Ginola
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB : Dan Petrescu
CB : Tony Adams
CB : John Terry
LB: Graeme Le Saux
LW: Ryan Giggs
CM: Steven Gerrard
CM : Roy Keane
RW Gianfranco Zola
CF : Dennis Bergkamp
CF : Thierry Henry
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB - Gary Neville
CB - Tony Adams
CB - Sol Campbell
LB - Ashley Cole
DM - Roy Keane
LM - Ryan Giggs
RM - Shaun Wright Phillips (he will be amazing)
AM/ Play off strikers - Teddy Sheringham
CF - Thierry Henry
CF - Alan Shearer
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB - Dan Petrescu
LB - Denis Irwin
CB - Philippe Albert
CB - Tony Adams
RW - Andrei Kanchelskis
LW - Anders Limpar
DMF - Patrick Vieria
AMF - Le Tissier (the greatest ever Premiership player)
CF - Tony Yeboah
CF - Robbie Fowler
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GK - Schmeical
LB - Ashley Cole
CB - Terry
CB - Ferdinand
RB - Neville (though it pains me to say that)
RM - Beckham
CM - Keane
CM - Viera
LM - Robben
CF - Henry
CF - Shearer
Far too many Man United players but then this is limited to the Premiership
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: Gary Neville - Solid, dependable. Everything you want from a full back.
CB: Sol Campbell - Injury prone these days but at his best, untouchable.
CB: Des Walker - You'll never beat Des Walker.
LB: Stuart Pearce - who else?
RM: David Beckham - In his last couple of seasons for Man Utd really was awesome.
CM: Gianfranco Zola - THE BEST player I've ever seen in the English game.
CM: Paul Scholes - The main reason why England's midfield looks so poor these days - because he's no longer a part of it!
LM: Ryan Giggs - At his best was simply unstoppable.
FWD: Stan Collymore - For the season when Forest finished 3rd. The best striker in Europe for those 9 months.
FWD: Thierry Henry - And possibly the best striker in the world today.
SUBS:
Eric Cantona - Inspirational but blotted his copybook by being a mardarse when opposing fans criticised him!
Steve Bruce - Never got an England cap. Why?
Peter Schmeichel - Unbeatable.
Alan Shearer - Uses his elbows too much but prolific in front of the goal.
David Ginola - when he was at Newcastle in the mid 90s he was different class, and at the time possibly the best individual player I'd ever seen in the English game.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: Frank Sinclair (Although you gotta love the Own Goal King!)
CB: Peter Shirtliff
CB: Darren Peacock
LB: Nigel Worthington
RW: Diao
MD: Ali Dia (His mate pretended to be George Weah, got him into Southampton where he played like 16 mins of Premier League footy - and he got booked!)
LW: Andy Myers
FW: Uwe Rosler
FW: Florin Radaciou
FW: Marco Boogers
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Ron Atkinson's first signing for Forest. Made one appearance and we lost 8-1 at home to Man U! He was that bad he made Jesper Blomqvist look good that day, and never played again! And he's an ex-Sheepshagger to boot.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
And probably as much as Steven Gerrard - the latest in a long line of scousers who is great for his club but dire for his country yet will probably get 80-90 caps (see also John Barnes and Steve McManaman).
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I think Carra is worth a place in the squad, as is Phil Neville as a useful utility fall-back option. Jenas is just in a long, long line for a midfield place that should by rights also include every single midfielder who plays on Hackney Marsh on a Sunday. At least they appear able to pass to teammates.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
He always looked best for Forest and Newcastle playing at the head of a diamond formation, in a sort of attacking/probing midfield role.
Just because Eriksson might play at right back, centre forward and left midfield all in the same half of the same game isn't a lot to go on to be honest.
As for Neville - now there's a player who no one has a clue where he's meant to play - almost 15 years after becoming a professional footballer.
Carragher - average clogger/stopper, but international class? Never in a million years.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I'd like to see Carrick get a go at the holding midfield role. He played quite well in the American tour we did in the summer. I'd have:
Beckham - Lampard - Carrick - Joe Cole
as the starting four in the middle, with Gerrard and Wright-Phillips as the main two subs to change it up. The others are squad players. I've always been a fan of Danny Murphy since he joined Liverpool from Crewe. I'd like to see him get an opportunity.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I think Carrick is one of the most underrated players in the country.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
I quite liked Uwe Rosler...
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Benali - best 'tache from recent memory!
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Cech
Ferreira
Campbell
Ferdinand
A. Cole
Essien
Gerrard
Robben
Duff
Henry
Rooney
subs: (the oldies have to be worth a shout somewhere)
Scmeichel
Adams
Keane
Zola
Pearce
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Ferreira is not that good, not as good as Rob Jones, Dan Petrescu or Gary Neville in their prime.
And Essien has only been in the Premiership for like a month!!!
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
RB: Gary Nev
LB: Stuart Pearce
CB: Rio Ferdinand
CB: Tony Adams
LW: Ryan Giggs
RW: David Beckham
DM: Keane
AM: Scholes
FW: T. Henry
FW: Alan Shearer
S: Seaman
S: Sol Cambell
S: Lampard
S: Van Nistelroy
S: Bergkamp
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
and rooney and ronaldo would make at least the bench for me. the two most exciting and talented players in the country by a mile.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
and rooney and ronaldo would make at least the bench for me. the two most exciting and talented players in the country by a mile.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Essien?? 6/7 games in and he's in your all time Premiership team, ye gods
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
Essien is better than Makelele as a defensive midfielder I'd say. Suppose Keane was better in his prime but don't think Essien is far off. And it doesn't matter how long he's been around shorely.
Chelsea now are better than Man U ever were as well. Highest points tally ever last season etc. They'll do consistently well in the champs league. United used to get regularly hammered by the likes of Barce and Madrid, and they were the only English club who would do even remotely well.
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
GK - Peter Schmeichel (sorry Seaman but I have memories of the Nayim and Ronaldinho lobs that made you a tit)
RB - Lee Dixon - better than Neville anytime!
LB - Stuart "psycho" Pearce (what a legend!)
CB - Tony Adams - "Best cb that has ever existed
CB - Steve Bruce - solid " "
RM - David Beckham - le tiss was too much of a luxury
CM - Patrick Vieira - the engine of the team
CM - Roy Keane - a cunt, but a fuckin quality rock
LM - Marky Overmars (quickest winger ever - visions of his goal in 1-0 at Utd that clinched '98 title)
FW - Shearer (who else?!) - goal machine & target man
FW - Ian Wright - bang bang goal machine
Re: Ultimate Premier League Team
1) Seaman - watch the weight pile on as he warms the no1 bench seat up
2) Le Tiss - becks and marky not doin it? le tiss will - fuckin quality to bring on if you need inspiration
3) Stan Collymore - woah what a lej! when he was a the 'pool he was quality when fit
4) Marcel Desailly - utility man, can play holding role or centre back, was quality early on at chelsea
5) Ryan Giggs - a like for like replacement for either wing