Best Premier League Team of All Time

[DTES]

Yes, it's a Daily Mail link so some might not like it, but they have an article on the best players in each position for the greatest Premier League team of all time.

Somehow they've missed Gus Poyet from the list of greatest midfielders, but still - anyone care to venture their team (and whether the Mail have missed any obvious candidates). I think I need to have a good think about mine first!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2130502/Premier-League-greatest-Managers-players-vote.html

 

[brightn'ove]

the daily mail

Gunner be great: Thierry Henry made 25 Premier League appearance, scoring 176 goals

if only.

 

[Mellotron]

"Roy Keane was a manager’s dream"

Did this make anyone else laugh out loud?

Yup, good team player, that Roy. Never caused a fuss or gave his opinion on anything.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Ive just voted for this on the Premier League website, i went for -

GK - Peter Schmeichel
RB - Gary Neville
CB - Tony Adams
CB - Rio Ferdinand
LB - Graeme Le Saux
RM - David Beckham
CM - Matt Le Tissier
CM - Paul Scholes
LM - David Ginola
FW - Eric Cantona
FW - Alan Shearer

 

[Falkor]

Goal of the premiership Dicanio V Wimbledon that said i think his one V chelsea is just as good

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Schmeichel

Gary Neville
Tony Adams
Rio Ferdinand
Ashley Cole

Beckham
Lampard
P. Vieira
Giggs

Henry
Shearer

 

[Common as Mook]

How ever much i detest the scumbag - Ronaldo has to be in it.

Also - Pires.

 

[DTES]

Have gone for:

Schmeichel

Neville
Adams
Ferdinand
Cole

Ronaldo
Gerrard
Poyet, sorry Scholes
Giggs

Bergkamp
Henry

 

[Notters]

Surprised no-one's mentioned "what happened before 1992?" yet

 

[Gritt23]

Looking at the teams NSCers have posted above, it makes me wonder, just how much the influx of foreigners HAVE improved the game really, seeing as everyone is coming up with predominantly British players.

 

[JJB]

Schmeichel

Neville
Adams
Desailly
Cole

Ronaldo
Le Tiss
Viera
Giggs

Bergkamp
Shearer

That team would take some beating!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

How ever much i detest the scumbag - Ronaldo has to be in it.

Also - Pires.

That's the position where I really had to weigh it up.

I openly admit Ronaldo is PHENOMENAL and was for United before he moved.

But to me, he was not a right winger. A right winger doesn't score tap ins from 2 yards and score headers from 6.
Beckham, to me, was THE right midfielder of the prem years. He was the best crosser of the ball it has seen and basically made it impossible for the likes of Van N and Cole to not score.

He pips Ronaldo on the basis that he actually played in that position (picky, i know)

 

[Common as Mook]

That's the position where I really had to weigh it up.

I openly admit Ronaldo is PHENOMENAL and was for United before he moved.

But to me, he was not a right winger. A right winger doesn't score tap ins from 2 yards and score headers from 6.
Beckham, to me, was THE right midfielder of the prem years. He was the best crosser of the ball it has seen and basically made it impossible for the likes of Van N and Cole to not score.

He pips Ronaldo on the basis that he actually played in that position (picky, i know)

Fair enough.

He was THAT good though that I'd stick him in somewhere.

 

[Albumen]

No Steve Guppy?

 

[The Large One]

When you say 'Premier League', I assume you're referring to the FA's half-baked idea to bollocks up the running of football further than it could ever have been on the back of the pipe dream which somehow included the advancement of the national side, grass roots and a National Academy?

Because apart from that the Premier League is little more than an exercise in charm-free marketing, over-ambition, under-achievement and failed promises. Except for players' wallets, agents, businessmen, international crooks and other assorted leeches, that is.

So I'll go for...

Shilton

Neale
Moore
Hughes
Cooper

Coppell
Charlton (R)
Bell
Matthews

Greaves
Lineker

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

When you say 'Premier League', I assume you're referring to the FA's half-baked idea to bollocks up the running of football further than it could ever have been on the back of the pipe dream which somehow included the advancement of the national side, grass roots and a National Academy?

Yep, that's the one.

Which makes your following team incorrect.

Sorry.

 

[Aadam]

Schmeichel

Gary Neville
Jaap Stam
Rio Ferdinand
Patrice Evra

Cristiano Ronaldo
Roy Keane
Paul Scholes
Ryan Giggs

Eric Cantona
Ruud van Nistelrooy

[/S]

 

[Common as Mook]

You could argue that the greatest "Team" would have to be Arsenal's invincibles.

Again - love him or loathe him, Ashley Cole has to be in it.

 

[The Large One]

Yep, that's the one.

Which makes your following team incorrect.

Sorry.

Would you prefer Jason 'Pineapple' Lee instead of Gary Lineker then?

 

[MrShaun15]

"Thierry Henry made 25 Premier League appearance, scoring 176 goals"

now that is impressive