Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [ARCHIVED] Soccer • Page 1931

I just want to again thank Chelsea for completing bungling this man and letting him come to us. (and Wolfsburg for the rehab job)

 

I won't be surprised if we blow it with him.....but why should the club have to compensate the money he isn't getting after being fired from another club? Is that a normal thing?

 

My head says he has to go into a Premier League all-time XI but there's something deeper inside telling me no. I can't quite put my finger on it but yeah. I think it might be down to the fact he's still an active player?

 

He is just such quality all around player that I can't see how you keep him off that list when he retires. He is so consistent too when you look at his stats. He is either in double digits of goals or assists every year he has been with City except for one.

I saw he has the same amount of assists for club and country that Beckham had.

 

I honestly have no doubts putting him in the Premier League All Time XI. He's been for the most part, the best player in the League since he moved to City - only argument really is Salah. A dominant player in the dominant team of the period. De Bruyne is just a magical player. He's got the longevity, he's got the statistics, he passes the eye test.

 

Salah and KDB both being at Chelsea just blows my mind. Them missing on Salah I can somewhat understand, the other one not so much.

That has to be the worst case for something like that?

 

KDB is probably good enough to be in the consideration for the all time XI bench of the sport, not just the premier league. Hard to think of that many midfielders you’d choose ahead of him on his best days… of which he has consistently many.

 

Robben and Sneijder succeeding at Bayern and Inter respectively but even that doesn’t come close

KDB and Salah have been the best players at the two dominant clubs in the league for the last half decade+

 

If Kane breaks the PL goal record but never wins the league, will he be the striker in the all-time team?

 

There's a lot of competition for strikers. Rooney, Aguero, Shearer, Henry just off the top of my head. Kane has an argument to be there but it's a tough one.

 

I don’t think you could argue any of those five. Pains me to say but personally I think it’s Henry, dude just had a magic quality to him.

 

Yeah, I think Henry probably gets that spot.

 

Yeah that's fair, it's probably Henry for me as well, Rooney as an outside chance.

 

If I am making an all-time PL XI then I am going 424 and KdB misses out, purely because of that extra ST spot

Schmeichel
Neville, Ferdinand, Terry, Cole
Vieira, Gerrard
Salah, Rooney, Shearer, Henry

Bench: Cech, Vidic, Evra, Keane, KdB, Bergkamp, Aguero

 

This would be super cool

 

Isak benched is terrible in two ways! Firstly, his fantasy owners are in the mud. Secondly, Callum Wilson always bags against Everton.

 

Fuming. Forgot to change my team and got Mings first on the bench too. Guarantee Isak one pointer

 

4-2-4? What is this, the FIFPRO Best XI?

 

Oh Spaniards are lovely lovely people. But their football teams

 

Looks like Atalanta want De Ketelaere on loan for next season. His stock has really fallen!

 

I won’t be surprised if I’m completely wrong….but feel like Spurs get a bounce back win today.

 

Wilson, man. Every fucking time.

 

sweet, summer child

 

Jadon :)

 

Spurs really have hit rock bottom letting 2023 Sancho score against them lol